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EU Regulatory Data Protection: Many pieces to the regulatory framework puzzle

DLA Piper Privacy Matters

With the General Data Protection Regulation (GDPR), adopted in 2016, the EU has created a solid framework for the protection of personal data in line with the EU Charter of Fundamental Rights. GDPR as a baseline for the protection of personal data. the legal basis for direct marketing communications.

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Data Protection: Where’s the Brexit Privacy Dividend?

Data Protector

If the EU’s ‘level data protection playing field’ means continuing to fully implement all aspects of European data protection law, including all aspects of the two-year-old General Data Protection Regulation (GDPR), then what was the point of Brexit? The GDPR has had a profound impact on many organisations.

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European Commission proposes reinforcement of EU Cybersecurity rules

DLA Piper Privacy Matters

A DSP is an information society service that is an online marketplace, an online search engine or a cloud computing service. The deployment models of cloud computing should include private, community, public and hybrid cloud and be interpreted in accordance with the ISO/IEC 17788:2014 standard.

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Weekly podcast: Yahoo hacker sentenced, acoustic DoS attack and GDPR compliance fails

IT Governance

This week, we discuss the sentencing of one of the perpetrators of the 2013 Yahoo breach, a new type of denial-of-service attack that can crash computers just using sound and how not to email your customers. It will be reporting the incident, as mandated by the GDPR. Here are this week’s stories.

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Indonesia Soon to Become the Fifth ASEAN Country to Adapt Data Privacy Laws

Security Affairs

On January 28th, Indonesia’s Ministry of Communication and Information Technology announced that the final draft for the Personal Data Protection Act has been submitted to the president of Indonesia. Indonesia’s adaptation of the law heavily resembles the European Union’s GDPR. Key Provisions. General personal data v.

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Your New Neighborhood Library

Information Governance Perspectives

A QUESTION OF CONNECTIVITY They say information is at everyone’s fingertips because of computers and the internet. However, Patrick points out that it’s only really at your fingertips if you can afford the cost of internet access at home or the cost of having a smartphone or a computer. Yet there was a silver lining, Patrick notes. “At

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Europe: Cookies – heavy Sanction by the CNIL in France For Google LLC and Google Ireland

DLA Piper Privacy Matters

website, cookies were automatically installed on her/his computer, without any action on her/his side. Therefore, the CNIL states that users residing in France were not clearly informed of the cookies deposit on their computer as well as the purposes of such cookies and their right to object, prior to their installation.