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Facebook Data Leak

Facebook Data LeakA data leak involving the personal data of hundreds of millions of Facebook users, which is also believed to include the personal data of over 100,00 Maltese users, is currently being investigated by the Irish Data Protection Commission, which is the EU lead supervisory authority responsible for Facebook. The users’ personal data, particularly […]

12
Apr

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IDPC Awareness Campaign

Data protection awareness campaignThis Office embarked on an awareness campaign designed to increase public awareness on the data protection rights deriving from the General Data Protection Regulation. The IDPC’s objective is to instill a culture where citizens of different age groups understand the importance of safeguarding their personal data and be well-informed of how to […]

04
Feb

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Data Protection Day 2021

The Information and Data Protection Commissioner joins the other Data Protection authorities in Europe and around the world to celebrate Data Protection Day on Thursday 28th January 2021

28
Jan

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Update on personal data transfers to the United Kingdom after Brexit

On the 31st December 2020, the transition period for the United Kingdom’s (UK) withdrawal from the European Union (EU) terminated; meaning that the UK is now deemed to be a third country.

20
Jan

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GDPRights: GDPR awareness campaign and support to business organisations, in particular, SMEs.

GDPR awareness campaign and support to business organisations, in particular, SMEs – GDPRights

07
Jan

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Appointment of a new Commissioner

Today, the Government of Malta published a notice in the Official Gazette informing the public that, in terms of Article 11 of the Data Protection Act, Mr Ian Deguara has been appointed as Information and Data Protection Commissioner for a period of five (5) years with effect from 21st December 2020.

24
Dec

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Recommendations 02/2020 on the European Essential Guarantees for surveillance measures

Recommendations adopted to help data exporters, either controller or processor within the European Economic Area (EEA) who transfers personal data to a controller or processor in any third country outside EEA

12
Nov

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Supplement transfer tools: EDPB’s Recommendations 01/2020

recommendations have been adopted to help data exporters, either controller or processor within the European Economic Area (EEA) who transfers personal data to a controller or processor in any country that is not a Member State of the EEA

11
Nov

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EDPB’s Open Public Consultations 07/2020 & 08/2020

In its ruling dated 16th July 2020 (C-311/18, Schrems II), the CJEU invalidated the adequacy of the EU-US Privacy Shield. This was the basis of transfers of personal data by controllers in the EU (data exporters) to companies in the US (data importers). This means that such transfers can no longer be possible under this adequacy framework

09
Sep

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FAQs on the Schrems II CJEU judgement

In its ruling dated 16th July 2020 (C-311/18, Schrems II), the CJEU invalidated the adequacy of the EU-US Privacy Shield. This was the basis of transfers of personal data by controllers in the EU (data exporters) to companies in the US (data importers). This means that such transfers can no longer be possible under this adequacy framework

30
Jul

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Disclosure of health data in the context of occupational medicine and assessment of working capacity

With regards to the disclosure of medical or health data in the context of occupational medicine and assessments of working capacity, the rule under Article 9 GDPR provides that the processing of special categories of data shall be prohibited unless one of the derogations set out under para. 2 thereof is satisfied.

29
Jul

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