Fight against covid-19 pandemic in Monaco: temperature taking, camera detection...
In early May 2020, the Monegasque Data Protection Authority (Commission de Contrôle des Informations Nominatives,...
Austrian Court Ruling on Immaterial Damages for GDPR violation – A Mere...
In February, the first decision of an Austrian Appellate Court regarding a claim for immaterial damages under Art...
Greek data protection watchdog makes its presence clear
During the unprecedented Covid-19 pandemic, but also before its appearance, the Greek Data Protection Authority...
When is it legal to be named as a reference?
For many companies, it is significant for customer acquisition not only to present the advantages of their own...
EU Guidance on Apps Supporting Fight against COVID-19 Pandemic in Relation to...
At the end of April, the European Union published non-binding guidance on apps supporting the fight against COVID...
Facial recognition and GDPR compliance: the impossible convergence?
The use of photographs in police investigations is nothing new. It is the use of algorithms so that a machine,...
United Kingdom’s Supreme Court erred on liability of joint-data controllers
UK Supreme Court decision on an employer’s liability for data breach in the case of WM Morrison Supermarkets versus...
The Belgian data protection authority fines a data controller 50,000 EUR for...
It is not too uncommon for a single person to be in charge of general compliance in an organisation, and to also...
A US$ 6 Million Judgment was Passed in Israel, for the Sale of Location Data
On March 23, 2020, a 5 year class action that was until now under a gag order, was finally lifted and the Judgment...
Protection of Personal Data vs. Citizen’s Health
At the time of the fight against the corona virus pandemic, the need to establish an imaginary border between the...
Using data from mobile phone apps in the combat of COVID-19 in Norway
The COVID-19 pandemic and the measures to combat the spread of the virus are having a severe impact in a number of...
Covid-19 and personal data protection in turkey – Frequently asked questions
This article answers many freuqently asked questions concerning data protection in turkey during times of Covid-19.
Protection of personal data of employees (and other persons) during the state of...
One of the possible solutions for processing personal data based on a legitimate interest of companies.
Italian data protection authority against the unlawful data processing through...
The Italian Data protection Authority (Italian DPA) issued two fines against Tim and Eni Gas e Luce, for a total...
EDPB Issues Guidance on GDPR Compliance in the Age of COVID-19
After many data protection authorities (in the European Union and beyond) provided guidance and FAQ's on the...
The re-use of public sector information
The re-use of Public Sector information has to be built on a balanced approach where the public interests of such...
GDPR through the prism of coronavirus epidemic
The difficulty of drawing a hard-and-fast line between the right to privacy and the rights of other people to stay...
Fine for a lack of legal basis of scoring sick leaves of employees
An administrative Fine of 82,000 EURO was imposed by the Cyprus Data Protection Authority concerning the lack of...
Fine for Dutch tennis association for unlawfully selling personal data
The Dutch DPA imposed a fine of 525,000 euros for the unlawful sale of personal data by the Dutch national tennis...
Recent decisions of the Austrian Data Protection Authority (DPA)
This article presents interesting decisions on Austrian data protection law, which deal in particular with the...