When is Privacy Impact Assessment (PIA) or Data Protection Impact Assessment (DPIA) necessary and mandatory according to the General Data Protection Regulation (GDPR)? So far there has been a lot of ambiguity surrounding the issue.
I previously wrote about the DPIA guidelines (and its challenges) suggested by the Privacy Commission…
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ePrivacy is one of the most crucial European privacy and data protection regulations.
I already wrote about ePrivacy, analysing its leaked and the later official draft versions. The ePrivacy regulation is important because it touches a number of influential aspects such as: electronic communication, web technologies, and web browsers. To…
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This very short note doesn’t mean to be technical.
European Parliament will soon start the work on the ePrivacy regulation, one of the most important privacy and data protection regulatory frameworks in Europe. In short, ePrivacy concerns the matters of security and privacy of communication and data exchange, as…
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European Commission has revealed their proposal for updating of ePrivacy directive. I have previously analysed a version of ePrivacy document leaked in December.
The new regulation still provides strong guarantees of integrity and confidentiality of communication (concerning also Instant messengers such as Facebook Messenger, WhatsApp, Google Hangout, etc.). That’s…
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