IT Governance

JUNE 27, 2019

After a rampant start to the year for data breaches and cyber attacks, it’s about time we went one month without at least one massive security incident. June 2019’s total of 39,713,046 breached records is the lowest since May last year – the month that the GDPR (General Data Protection Regulation) came into effect. Ransomware.

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DLA Piper Privacy Matters

JUNE 4, 2021

Today, the European Commission published the final Implementing Decision on standard contractual clauses (“ New SCCs ”) for the transfer of personal data to third countries. The New SCCs follow the draft implementing decision on standard contractual clauses (“ Draft SCCs ”) issued by the European Commission on 12 November 2020.

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DLA Piper Privacy Matters

MAY 31, 2018

PECR sits alongside the Data Protection Act 2018 and the GDPR and provide data subjects with specific privacy rights in relation to electronic communications. customer privacy as regards traffic and location data, itemised billing, line identification, and directory listings. Background. Proposals for change.

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DLA Piper Privacy Matters

FEBRUARY 12, 2018

Following in the footsteps of Governments across international borders, the results of the long-awaited and much discussed Review into Open Banking in Australia were released late on Friday, 9 February, 2018. Nonetheless, it marks a sizeable shift in the traditional banking platform model long decried by fintechs.

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Data Protector

OCTOBER 11, 2017

What follows below is an edited version of the debate in the House of Lords of the Second Reading of the Data Protection Bill, held on 10 October. Data is not just a resource for better marketing, better service and delivery. Data is used to build products themselves. It has become a cliché that data is the new oil.

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Data Matters

SEPTEMBER 29, 2021

Most of that focus has centered on data collection, storage, sharing, and, in particular, third-party transactions in which customer information is harnessed for advertising purposes. Could a party, for instance, decline to produce, review, or even collect certain types of data due to privacy concerns? But what about other contexts?

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