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German court: monitoring of employees by key logger is not allowed

Data Protection Report

Subsequently, the firm installed key logger software on its employees’ computers. When reviewing the files created by the software, the employer became aware that an employee had used his work computer for private purposes during working hours and, thereupon, terminated the employment relationship.

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What IG Professionals Should Know About the Internet of Bodies

ARMA International

Another common name for the IoB is embodied computing , where the human body is used as a technology platform. Wearable technology began as any kind of electronic device designed to be worn on the user’s body. In the ingestibles category are Bluetooth electronic pills that monitor the inner workings of the human body.

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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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Saudi Arabia’s New Data Protection Law – What you need to know

DLA Piper Privacy Matters

While the PDPL contains the main features of a modern data protection law, it cannot be considered a direct analogue of the GDPR. However the PDPL itself does not refer to a concept of processing for “legitimate interests” in the same manner as the GDPR, and indeed as other data protection frameworks in the region allow for.

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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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#ModernDataMasters: Henrik Liliendahl, Chairman & CTO, Product Data Lake

Reltio

I got good grades in mathematics at school but it was an evening class in secondary school that I took in what was then called EDP (Electronic Data Processing) that got me started. We didn’t even have a computer at that school so the whole class was about things drawn on the blackboard.

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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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