2/25/2021 1:42:56 PM GDPR fine for not diligently checking and fixing security vulnerabilities By Christoph Werkmeister Annabelle Hamelin On 17 December 2020, the Polish Personal Data Protection Office imposed a fine of PLN1m (around €250,000) on ID Finance Poland. The...
2/19/2021 12:00:00 AM The proposed Virginia Consumer Data Protection Act, Part III By Peter Jaffe Menachem Kaplan Today’s third installment of this series discussing the proposed Virginia Consumer Data Protection Act covers, well, what the Virginia...
2/18/2021 7:50:23 PM Amendments to Germany’s laws on autonomous driving: what does it mean for data processing? By Michael Schwaab Ilka Oberländer At the start of the year, Germany’s Federal Ministry of Transport and Digital Infrastructure (BMVI) published a draft of the Autonomous...
2/18/2021 12:00:00 AM The proposed Virginia Consumer Data Protection Act, Part II By Peter Jaffe Menachem Kaplan This is the second part of a series assessing how the proposed Consumer Data Protection Act in Virginia stacks up against the CCPA in...
2/17/2021 12:00:00 AM The proposed Virginia Consumer Data Protection Act, Part I By Peter Jaffe Menachem Kaplan 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...
2/17/2021 12:00:00 AM Germany publishes draft law for the approval of fully autonomous vehicles By Jonas Köster The German Federal Ministry of Transport and Digital Infrastructure (BMVI) has published a legislative proposal on the approval of...
2/17/2021 12:00:00 AM The top five European data protection trends for 2021 By Annabelle Hamelin Michael Schwaab 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...
2/16/2021 7:20:34 PM Future looks uncertain for EU database right By Zofia Aszendorf Comments made by CJEU advocate-general Maciej Szpunar in an opinion to the CJEU at the end of January suggest that the protection...
2/15/2021 2:36:12 PM Worklife 2.0: the hybrid workplace – challenges for employers in the year ahead By Holly Insley Chantelle Nicholas Jean-Francois Gerard Laura Llangozi +1 more... Show less 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,...
2/11/2021 12:00:00 AM EU’s ePrivacy reforms inch forward By Eugene McQuaid Christoph Werkmeister Elena Brandt On 10 February 2021, four years after the European Commission’s initial legislative proposal and to the surprise of many, the Council...
2/5/2021 12:00:00 AM Turf wars: confidentiality of live (sports) data By Rohan Jerath Dr. Christopher Stothers Peter Kerr-Davis Jake Allingan +1 more... Show less The Court of Appeal’s judgment in The Racing Partnership v Sports Information Services has moved the odds on finding confidentiality and...
2/4/2021 10:43:47 PM Be careful what you scrape from the HiQ v. LinkedIn decision By Peter Jaffe Menachem Kaplan Marissa Yu A recent complaint by Southwest Airlines has refocused attention on a perennial question: the legal status of data scraping. Southwest...