The work on ePrivacy continues and enters a hot period. I’m interested in it from the very beginning, I’m also actively involved in these works, also as a stakeholder. The draft proposal with amendments is now public. Being involved in those works, I’m impressed how good suggestions…
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I am participating in the works on the ePrivacy Regulation. Last week I have attended ePrivacy Roundtables, organised at the European Parliament. That was an interesting opportunity to exchange opinions, present and exchange views. There were four Roundtables on the following topics: Cookies, Article 8, Consent, Privacy by Design and…
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Data Protection Authorities of a number of European countries (notably, France, Spain, Belgium, Netherlands) has announced a formal action in the Facebook case. The announcement and summaries are available here. To tackle this particular issue DPAs formed a devoted Contact Group allowing a coordinated analysis. Pretty unprecedented move.
Few years…
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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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