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If you are filing a data access request and it is clear that the intention is something other than finding out whether the processing of the data was lawful, the controller can refuse your request, according to the Higher Court of Nuremberg in Germany.
The court ruled that the data…
Continue Reading Beware the Motive Behind a Data Access RequestThe old saying went that “if you don’t want it on the front page of…
Continue Reading If You Don’t Want It Released to an Employee, Don’t Put It in Your Employee FilesWhat can the California Privacy Protection Agency learn from the EU experience as it gets…
Continue Reading What Can the California Privacy Protection Agency Learn From Europe?What do obscenity and data minimization have in common?
As Justice Potter Stewart famously wrote…
Continue Reading What’s Data Minimization? As the Saying Goes, You’ll ‘Know It When (You) See It’The Latest
Here are five things you should know about Google Analytics, transfers and Schrems II.
1. Down to Middle Earth We Go
Brush up on your J.R.R. Tolkien because Datatilsynet in…
The United Kingdom’s Information Commissioner’s Office has issued draft guidance regarding governance and anonymization.
What does it mean for GDPR and for the host of new US Privacy laws, including…
Continue Reading Anonymization Governance: Why It’s Important for GDPR and for CPRAMany EU companies have their own ideas on what US Privacy laws mean for the, Here are three of the more common myths out there, busted.
Myth 1:
I don’t…
Continue Reading Busted: Three Myths EU Companies Have About US Privacy lawsThe supplemental measures adopted by Google to regulate data transfers within the framework of the Google Analytics functionality are not sufficient to exclude the possibility of access by American intelligence…
Continue Reading No Google Analytics for You, Part TroisThe UK’s Information Commissioner’s Office (ICO) has issued guidance on pseudonymisation.
Here are some key points:
What is it?
At a basic level, pseudonymisation starts with a single input (the…
Continue Reading Mi Pseudonym Es Su Pseudonym: ICO Issues Guidance on PseudonymisationThe German Data Protection Conference (DSK) has issued an expert opinion on the state of surveillance laws in the United States.
Needed: Schrems-proof mascara, the next level waterproof for all…
Continue Reading The German DSK Expert Opinion on FISA 702 Is Broader Than We ThinkNo Google Analytics for You? EDPS Decision on EU Parliament’s Use of Google Analytics and More
A few days before the Austria DSB decision, the European Data Protection Supervisor (EDPS) issued a decision on the use of Google Analytics by the European Parliament.
For Schrems II:…
Continue Reading No Google Analytics for You? EDPS Decision on EU Parliament’s Use of Google Analytics and MoreFor vehicle data, GDPR is just the beginning, the German Brandenburg regional government said in a Q&A. Stay tuned for the Data Governance Act.
Here are some key points:
Vehicle…
Continue Reading For Vehicle Data, GDPR Is Just the BeginningThe German Data Protection Conference (DSK) issued guidance on the Federal Act on the Regulation of Data Protection and Privacy in Telecommunications and Telemedia (‘TTDSG’), which went into effect on…
Continue Reading No Cookies for You: DSK TTDSG Guidelines Impose Strict Limitations