EDPB adopts pseudonymisation guidelines and paves the way to improve cooperation with competition authorities January 2025 During its January 2025 plenary meeting, the European Data Protection Board (EDPB) has adopted guidelines on pseudonymisation, as well as a statement on the interplay of competition law and data protection. Read more here
IDPC data protection decision – right of access January 2025 The Commissioner issued a reprimand to a controller for not granting a data subject access to internal emails exchanged among the controller’s employees that included the data subject’s personal data, as well as information relating to the processing activity. The Commissioner ruled that the right […]
Data Protection Day 2025 January 2025 To mark the Data Protection Day, the EDPS, Council of Europe, and CPDP Conferences are joining forces to host a one-day event: “CPDP – Data Protection Day: A New Mandate for Data Protection.” When: 28 January 2025 Where: European Commission’s Charlemagne, Brussels Format: In-person and online This year’s conference […]
Data scraping: French SA fines KASPR €200,000 January 2025 The French Supervisory Authority (CNIL) has fined KASPR €200,000 for a number of breaches and has ordered the company to cease collecting the data of persons who chose to limit the visibility of their contact details, and delete the data collected in this way. KASPR markets […]
July 2024 A global privacy sweep that examined more than 1,000 websites and mobile applications (apps) has found that nearly all of them employed one or more deceptive design patterns that made it difficult for users to make privacy-protective decisions. Deceptive design patterns use features that steer users towards options that may result in the […]
The elections of the European Parliament and the processing of personal data in the course of political campaigning: Here is what voters need to watch out for. In the run-up of the 2024 European Parliament elections, voters need to be aware of these key points that need to be respected when political parties and […]
Launch of Coordinated Enforcement Action on the Right of Access Date : 30 April 2024 The Information and Data Protection Commissioner (IDPC) is pleased to announce its participation in the European Data Protection Board’s 2024 Coordinated Enforcement Framework (CEF). 28 Supervisory Authorities (SAs) across the European Economic Area are taking part in this initiative […]
EDPB adopts the second Coordinated Enforcement Framework report on the Designation and Position of Data Protection Officers In October 2020, the EDPB decided to set up a Coordinated Enforcement Framework (‘CEF’) as a key action under the second pillar of its 2021-2023 Strategy. The aim of this action is to aim at streamlining enforcement […]
Cooperation Agreement signed between the IDPC and the National Privacy Commission of the Philippines The Commissioner firmly believes in the importance of developing international cooperation mechanisms with data protection counterparts in third countries primarily designed to share information and expertise on data protection practices. In the margins of the 45th Global Privacy Assembly held in […]
EU-US Data Privacy Framework On the 10th of July 2023, the European Commission adopted its adequacy decision on the EU-US Data Privacy Framework. The adequacy decision was largely the result of safeguard issues that were raised in the 2020 Schrems II decision of the Court of Justice of the European Union. It ensures that data […]