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2019 end-of-year review part 1: January to June

IT Governance

The penalty, which was by far the biggest GDPR fine in the eight months that the Regulation had been in effect, related to two violations: Google had failed to adequately explain to its users why it was collecting their data, and it didn’t document a legal basis for doing so.

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China’s PIPL has finally arrived, and brings helpful clarification (rather than substantial change) to China’s data privacy framework

DLA Piper Privacy Matters

To be clear, this is not China’s own GDPR. Definition of Personal information and Sensitive Personal information “Personal information” means any kind of information relating to an identified or identifiable natural person, either electronically or otherwise recorded, but excluding information that has been de-identified or anonymised.

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The debate on the Data Protection Bill in the House of Lords

Data Protector

When we do the weekly supermarket shop online, we should be able to move our shopping list electronically. On representation, we welcome the provision in article 80(1) of the GDPR which gives greater ability for civil society and other representative bodies to act on behalf of citizens and mirrors consumer rights in goods and services.

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