Joint Controllership Sub-group News

During 2018, the Not-for-Profit International Network CPC set up some study groups with the aim to analyze and compare the Member States laws and Data Protection Authorities’ interpretations on some specific legal arrangements provided by the EU Regulation 679/2016, ...Mehr lesen

Compete for the best cloud solution worldwide – the EuroCloud Awards 2019 start now

The EuroCloud Awards recognize the best digital services from Europe and around the world based on their underlying cloud computing technology. ...Mehr lesen

Supreme Court Finds the Publisher and the State Liable for Personal Data Breach

In August 2018, the Supreme Court of the Republic of Slovenia upheld the judgements of the lower courts finding the publisher and the state (Republic of Slovenia) jointly liable for the publication in a secondary school textbook of a set of data which allowed for the ...Mehr lesen

New cybersecurity law imposes security and reporting obligations to Operators of Essential...

The Greek Parliament recently enacted Law 4577/2018, the purpose of which is to transpose Directive (EU) 2016/1148 on security of network and information systems (the NIS Directive) into Greek law. ...Mehr lesen

Uber fined £385,000 in the UK and €600,000 in the Netherlands

Uber US and Uber Netherlands were considered to be joint controllers which made them both separately liable for claims of customers of Uber. Uber was fined after a 'serious breach' allowing hackers to download worldwide 54 million customer data. ...Mehr lesen

EDM erhält 4-Sterne-Zertifikat

Der Cloud-Dienst des Österreichischen Bundesministeriums für Nachhaltigkeit und Tourismus erhält neuerlich das StarAudit-Zertifikat. Auditoren bestätigen ein außerordentlich hohes Niveau in Bezug auf Datenschutzmanagementprozesse und Informationssicherheit. ...Mehr lesen

Slovenia’s ICO defines DPO’s additional tasks that could result in a conflict of interests

Paragraph 6, Article 38 of the General Data Protection Regulation (GDPR) allows the Data Protection Officer (DPO) to fulfil other tasks and duties (beside serving as the DPO) for the controller or processor, provided however, that fulfilling such additional assignments ...Mehr lesen

The Spanish DPA (AEPD) issues guidelines regarding the management and notification of...

The Agencia Española de Protección de Datos ( AEPD) presented guidelines regarding the management and notification of security breaches in compliance with GDPR. ...Mehr lesen

Turkey: Data Protection Matters in M&A Transactions

Privacy issues in mergers and acquisitions take the attention of transaction parties among other things in these days. ...Mehr lesen

Cybersecurity und Cloud Computing: So erreicht Europa den ultimativen Wettbewerbsvorteil am...

Die DSM Cloud Stakeholder Konferenz, mit Informationen aus erster Hand über „The EU Cyber Security Package and GDPR Code of Conduct for Cloud Procurement in Europe” ...Mehr lesen