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February 25, 2021

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GDPR fine for not diligently checking and fixing security vulnerabilities

On 17 December 2020, the Polish Personal Data Protection Office imposed a fine of PLN1m (around €250,000) on ID Finance Poland. The...

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Peter Jaffe Menachem Kaplan

February 19, 2021

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The proposed Virginia Consumer Data Protection Act, Part III

Today’s third installment of this series discussing the proposed Virginia Consumer Data Protection Act covers, well, what the Virginia...

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February 18, 2021

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Amendments to Germany’s laws on autonomous driving: what does it mean for data processing?

At the start of the year, Germany’s Federal Ministry of Transport and Digital Infrastructure (BMVI) published a draft of the Autonomous...

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Peter Jaffe Menachem Kaplan

February 18, 2021

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The proposed Virginia Consumer Data Protection Act, Part II

This is the second part of a series assessing how the proposed Consumer Data Protection Act in Virginia stacks up against the CCPA in...

Peter Jaffe Menachem Kaplan

February 17, 2021

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The proposed Virginia Consumer Data Protection Act, Part I

Even as California has progressed to version 2.0 of its state data protection law, most U.S. states have yet to release their version...

Jonas Köster

February 17, 2021

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Germany publishes draft law for the approval of fully autonomous vehicles

The German Federal Ministry of Transport and Digital Infrastructure (BMVI)has published a legislative proposal on the approval of...

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Annabelle Hamelin Michael Schwaab

February 17, 2021

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The top five European data protection trends for 2021

Developments in the world of data protection are unceasing. Let’s have a look at the top five European trends we see for the months ahead.

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Zofia Aszendorf

February 16, 2021

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Future looks uncertain for EU database right

Comments made by CJEU advocate-general Maciej Szpunar in an opinion to the CJEU at the end of January suggest that the protection...

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February 15, 2021

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Worklife 2.0: the hybrid workplace – challenges for employers in the year ahead

The changes that the COVID-19 pandemic imposed on the world of work, and the new hybrid workplace that is expected to emerge in 2021,...

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Eugene McQuaid Christoph Werkmeister Elena Brandt

February 11, 2021

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EU’s ePrivacy reforms inch forward

On 10 February 2021, four years after the European Commission’s initial legislative proposal and to the surprise of many, the Council

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Rohan Jerath Dr. Christopher Stothers Peter Kerr-Davis Jake Allingan

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February 5, 2021

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Turf wars: confidentiality of live (sports) data

The Court of Appeal’s judgment in The Racing Partnership v Sports Information Services has moved the odds on finding confidentiality and...

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Peter Jaffe Menachem Kaplan Marissa Yu

February 4, 2021

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Be careful what you scrape from the HiQ v. LinkedIn decision

A recent complaint by Southwest Airlines has refocused attention on a perennial question: the legal status of data scraping. Southwest...

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Tobias Pukropski Theresa Ehlen

February 4, 2021

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Data separation in M&A transactions: an antitrust and data protection perspective

With IT infrastructure and networks becoming increasingly complex, it is more challenging and time consuming than ever to separate...

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Michael Schwaab

February 3, 2021

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New guidelines on GDPR data breach notifications

The EU General Data Protection Regulation (GDPR) obliges organisations to notify a data breach to the competent supervisory authority and...

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