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Europe: EDPB Guidelines on calculation of fines under GDPR – a case of evolution, not revolution?

DLA Piper Privacy Matters

A draft set of EDPB guidelines on the calculation of administrative fines under the GDPR is likely to lead to some further consistency among supervisory authorities on how fines are calculated – however, if adopted, the guidance leaves clear room for the current divergent approaches to continue.

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The Impact of Data Protection Laws on Your Records Retention Schedule

ARMA International

Countries and organizations within the European Union (EU), must comply with the requirements of the General Data Protection Regulation (GDPR) 1. Many countries outside of the EU have created and implemented their own data protection laws that are similar to the GDPR 2. 2016/679 (EU, April 27). 2016/679, Art. 2 DLA Piper.

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Cyber-insurance – 72 hours for the insured party to file a criminal complaint: GDPR’s false friend

Data Protection Report

12-10-1 into the French Insurance code. 12-10-1 ended up having a much broader scope, as it is now to apply to all forms of cyberattacks and to many cyber-security incidents. Under the GDPR, the 72 hour time limit starts from the knowledge of a personal data breach, which may be identified days after compromise of the system.

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Article 29 Working Party Published Guidelines on Transparency under the GDPR

Hunton Privacy

On December 12, 2017, the Article 29 Working Party (“Working Party”) published its guidelines on transparency under Regulation 2016/679 (the “Guidelines”). The Guidelines aim to provide practical guidance and clarification on the transparency obligations introduced by the EU General Data Protection Regulation (“GDPR”).

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FRANCE: ONE MORE STEP TO ENSURE CONSISTENCY OF THE NEW FRENCH DATA PROTECTION LAW

DLA Piper Privacy Matters

On 12 December 2018, the French Government issued an ordinance [1] finalizing, at the legislative level [2] , the alignment of the French Data Protection Law (“FDPL”) with the General Data Protection Regulation [3] (“GDPR”) and the Directive 2016/680 [4].

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EU Council Agrees on Proposed ePrivacy Regulation

Data Matters

Unlike the EU General Data Protection Regulation 2016/679 (GDPR), the ePrivacy legal framework applies only to electronic communications data — which may include both personal and non-personal data and is in that respect broader in scope than the GDPR.

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BELGIUM: NEW DATA PROTECTION COMMISSIONER

DLA Piper Privacy Matters

Drawing up the list of processing operations that require an impact analysis with regard to data protection (DPIA) and giving advice in the context of a DPIA (in the event of prior consultation for high-risk processing activities) to a controller are part of its executive tasks. Prior to that, Hielke served for 12 years at the EDPS, a.o.

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