DLA Piper Privacy Matters

FEBRUARY 20, 2023

Authors: Sarah Birkett , Nicholas Boyle The Australian Attorney-General has published the (long-awaited) results of the Privacy Act review. The report recommends a number of changes to the Australian privacy framework, including various changes to Australia’s core privacy legislation, the Privacy Act 1988 (Cth).

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IT Governance

NOVEMBER 23, 2018

DPIAs (data protection impact assessments) are a type of risk assessment that identify the risks affecting the security of personal data, and work out their likely effects. It’s particularly important to carry one out when introducing new processes, systems or technologies for processing personal data.

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Hunton Privacy

DECEMBER 20, 2017

The Guidelines aim to provide practical guidance and clarification on the transparency obligations introduced by the EU General Data Protection Regulation (“GDPR”). The transparency obligations require controllers to provide certain information to data subjects regarding the processing of their personal data.

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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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Hunton Privacy

JULY 28, 2020

On July 23, 2020, the UK Information Commissioner’s Office (the “ICO”) published the first two reports of its Data Protection Regulatory Sandbox Beta phase (the “Beta phase”) involving projects by Jisc (a not-for-profit organization serving the higher and further education and skills sectors) and Heathrow Airport Ltd.

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IT Governance

MARCH 28, 2018

Whatever the size and setting of your school, the General Data Protection Regulation (GDPR) places high expectations on protecting the personal data of your data subjects, especially children. They are the point of contact for data subjects and the Information Commissioner’s Office. What is a DPO?

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Data Matters

JUNE 26, 2018

On June 25, 2018, California Secretary of State Alex Padilla announced that a potentially significant privacy initiative is eligible for the Nov. If passed, the ballot initiative — the California Consumer Privacy Act (CCPA) — would immediately make sweeping changes to California’s privacy laws. biometric data.

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DLA Piper Privacy Matters

OCTOBER 19, 2017

On 14 September the UK Government published the draft Data Protection Bill, to replace the Data Protection Act 1998 (DPA) and supplement the forthcoming General Data Protection Regulation (GDPR) in certain key areas. In this article we highlight the specific impact of the Bill on how employers process workforce data.

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Data Protection Report

MAY 23, 2018

The wait is finally over—this Friday the European Union General Data Protection Regulation (GDPR) will come into force. However, the challenges of GDPR certainly don’t end on the date this law goes into implementation. Many of our clients ask us when and how they may be called upon to demonstrate compliance with the GDPR.

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DLA Piper Privacy Matters

FEBRUARY 11, 2020

The Belgian Data Protection Authority published its strategic plan setting out its policy priorities and strategic objectives for the next five years. It will focus its attention on specific industry sectors as well as on specific GDPR topics and societal themes. Data minimisation and purpose limitation are mentioned specifically.

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IT Governance

SEPTEMBER 4, 2019

Under the GDPR, DPIAs (data protection impact assessments) are mandatory for data processing that is “likely to result in a high risk to the rights and freedoms of data subjects” Effectively a type of risk assessment, DPIAs assess how these high-risk processing activities could impact data subjects.

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Hunton Privacy

APRIL 20, 2018

The Belgian Privacy Commission (the “Belgian DPA”) recently released a Recommendation (in French and Dutch ) on Data Protection Impact Assessment (“DPIA”) and the prior consultation requirements under Articles 35 and 36 of the EU General Data Protection Regulation (“GDPR”) (the “Recommendation”). When is a DPIA required?

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Managing Your Information

MAY 25, 2017

With just one year to go until the GDPR applies, now is the time for action. With one year to go, it must be time for a GDPR checklist! It is essential to make a start on preparations for compliance with the GDPR as there is lots to do. Identify the personal data that you hold. Initial Preparations.

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Data Protection Report

JUNE 29, 2018

On June 28, 2018, California lawmakers enacted the California Consumer Privacy Act of 2018 (the “CCPA”) a sweeping, GDPR-like privacy law which is intended to give California consumers more control over how businesses collect and use their data. Consumer access and data portability rights. Disclosure requirements.

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Data Protection Report

JUNE 29, 2018

On June 28, 2018, California lawmakers enacted the California Consumer Privacy Act of 2018 (the “CCPA”) a sweeping, GDPR-like privacy law which is intended to give California consumers more control over how businesses collect and use their data. Consumer Access and Data Portability Rights. Disclosure Requirements.

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Managing Your Information

MAY 25, 2017

With just one year to go until the GDPR applies, now is the time for action. With one year to go, it must be time for a GDPR checklist! It is essential to make a start on preparations for compliance with the GDPR as there is lots to do. Identify the personal data that you hold. Initial Preparations.

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IT Governance

AUGUST 6, 2018

In our first blog ( sign up to the series here ) , we explore data breaches. Across all sectors and organisation sizes, simple mistakes such as emailing and posting or faxing information to the wrong people top the Information Commissioner’s Office’s (ICO’s) quarterly statistics in data security incidents.

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Data Matters

JULY 16, 2018

*Originally Published July 12, 2018 by Chambers and Partners Data Protection & Cyber Security 2018. There is a lot going on with privacy around the world. There ought to be a greater effort among policymakers to correlate what companies are required to do to protect privacy with actual, identified harms or abuses.

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DLA Piper Privacy Matters

APRIL 26, 2021

There are parallels here with the extra-territorial effect of the GDPR. High-risk AI systems are defined by a classification model that focuses on the risk associated with the product itself: A first category covers AI systems intended to be used as a safety component of products (or which are themselves a product).

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Thales Cloud Protection & Licensing

JANUARY 16, 2020

Objectives of the Personal Data Protection Bill. Many privacy professionals consider the European Union’s General Data Protection Regulation (GDPR), which took effect in May 2018, as the cornerstone of privacy regulation. GDPR is harmonizing data protection and privacy requirements across the EU.

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