Tag: Data retention

Tag: Data retention

EDPB Guidelines on Blockchain and GDPR Compliance: Key Considerations for Data Controllers

The EDPB has issued draft guidelines to clarify how the GDPR applies to blockchain technologies. The European Data Protection Board (EDPB) has issued draft Guidelines to provide clarity on the application of the GDPR to blockchain-based processing operations. While blockchain technologies offer benefits in transparency, decentralisation, and resilience, their technical characteristics pose considerable challenges to

CNIL imposed a fine of €240,000 on KASPR for multiple GDPR violations

CNIL of France has imposed a fine of €240,000 on KASPR for multiple GDPR violations linked to the unlawful collection and retention of personal data.  KASPR, a company offering a Chrome extension to extract professional contact details from LinkedIn and other online sources, has faced regulatory action for its practices. Through its database of approximately

ECJ ruling on data retention supported by German DPA

Federal German data protection authority, the BfDI supports recent ECJ ruling on data retention.    The federal German data protection authority, BfDI has voiced its support for a recent ECJ ruling on data retention. The ECJ ruling supports the notion that the preventive, general and indiscriminate storage of individuals’ traffic and location data is indeed