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UK: New guidance on processing personal data for scientific research purposes

DLA Piper Privacy Matters

Experiencing a global pandemic has provided us with many examples of the importance of scientific research to our lives. Meanwhile, a sometimes popular (mis)conception is that data protection laws – and particularly the GDPR – are a barrier to the effective use of personal data for research. Transparency.

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Thailand Personal Data Protection Law

Data Protection Report

The Personal Data Protection Act B.E. However, most of the operational provisions, including provisions relating to the rights of a data subject, the obligations of a data controller and the penalties for non-compliance, will become effective on 27 May 2020, 1 year after the PDPA is published. Definition of Personal Data.

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Two FTC complaints that over-retention of personal data violates Section 5

Data Protection Report

In both cases, the FTC’s complaint alleged that the companies retained personal data for longer than was necessary, and that conduct violated Section 5 of the Federal Trade Commission Act as an unfair act or practice. Under the proposed consent orders, both companies do not confirm or deny the allegations.

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CNIL’s New Guidelines on HR Processing

HL Chronicle of Data Protection

The new guidelines are applicable to public and private companies for the processing of their employees’ personal data. For example, for recruitment purposes, pre-contractual measures or legitimate interests are acceptable legal bases for the CNIL. Categories of personal data. Retention periods.

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Threat actors scrape 600 million LinkedIn profiles and are selling the data online – again

Security Affairs

For the third time in the past four months, LinkedIn seems to have experienced another massive data scrape conducted by a malicious actor. Once again, an archive of data collected from hundreds of millions of LinkedIn user profiles surfaced on a hacker forum, where it’s currently being sold for an undisclosed sum.

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GDPR Article 17: What Is the Right to Erasure?

IT Governance

Article 17 of the GDPR (General Data Protection Regulation) plays a distinctive yet essential role in data protection law. It enshrines “the right to erasure” (sometimes referred to as “the right to be forgotten”), which allows people to request that an organisation deletes any personal data related to them.

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Germany: Berlin data protection authority imposes EUR 14.5 million fine for “data cemetery”

DLA Piper Privacy Matters

On 30 October 2019, the Berlin Commissioner for Data Protection and Freedom of Information ( Berliner Beauftragte für Datenschutz und Informationsfreiheit – “ Berlin DPA ”) imposed an administrative fine of about EUR 14.5 million against Deutsche Wohnen SE for infringements of the General Data Protection Regulation (GDPR).

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