A colleague of mine, Cédric Laurant, recently posted an interesting question on a LinkedIn group that I manage, the European Data Protection Forum : “Do some iPhone and Android smartphone application makers… violate the consent requirement of the e-Privacy Directive (2009/136)?” Apple, Inc. got sued on Dec. 23 in federal court in San Jose, California. The […]
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Article 29 Working Party Opinion 8/2010 on Applicable Law, Article 4 (1) EU Data Protection Directive 95/46/EC and Smartphone Apps
Posted by Monique Altheim on January 5, 2011
https://ediscoverymap.com/2011/01/article-29-working-party-opinion-82010-on-applicable-law-article-4-1-eu-directive-9546ec-and-smartphone-apps/
Data Retention in the EU Five Years after the Directive
The European Commission is planning a review of the Data Retention Directive of 2006, which could include a harmonization and reduction of the periods when public authorities can access citizens’ private data held by telecommunication companies for security matters. The directive allows for retention periods between 6 months and 24 months. Most member states have implementd […]
Posted by Monique Altheim on December 30, 2010
https://ediscoverymap.com/2010/12/676/
How to recover your data from the cloud
Posted by Monique Altheim on December 14, 2010
https://ediscoverymap.com/2010/12/how-to-recover-your-data-from-the-cloud-the-new-super-mario-game/
The International Association of Privacy Professionals’ First Europe Data Protection Congress
I recently attended the International Association of Privacy Professionals’ (IAPP) very first Europe Data Protection Congress in Paris on November 29 and 30. The attendee list was impressive: Privacy professionals, employed by Fortune 500 companies from a wide variety of industries, like Hewlett-Packard, Lockheed Martin, Citigroup, Oracle, Western Union, Microsoft, IBM, Dell, Google, Yahoo, Estee […]
Posted by Monique Altheim on December 8, 2010
https://ediscoverymap.com/2010/12/the-international-association-of-privacy-professionals-first-europe-data-protection-congress/
First Tweeted Int’l Data Protection and Privacy Commissioners Conference – Jerusalem 2010
The 32nd International Conference of Data Protection and Privacy Commissioners, held on october 27-29 2010 in Jerusalem, Israel, was the first event of its kind to be tweeted live. Israel’s data protection authority, ILITA, enabled live streaming of the conference on its web site, so that even twitterers who could not attend the conference in […]
Posted by Monique Altheim on October 30, 2010
https://ediscoverymap.com/2010/10/first-tweeted-intl-data-protection-and-privacy-commissioners-conference-jerusalem-2010/
EU Article 29 Working Party Decrees Strict Opt-In Standards for Behavioral Advertising Data Collection
by Bret Cohen On June 24, the Article 29 Working Party established by the 1995 European Directive on Data Protection published an opinion declaring that online advertisers who want to target ads by tracking consumers’ surfing habits must obtain the consumers’ affirmative opt-in consent to such data collection.At the same time, the Working Party lauded certain privacy-enhancing practices incorporated into behavioral […]
Posted by Monique Altheim on June 30, 2010
https://ediscoverymap.com/2010/06/eu-article-29-working-party-decrees-strict-opt-in-standards-for-behavioral-advertising-data-collection/
IAPP Global Privacy Summit 2010 – Hot Topics : Robert Rothman on the New EU Controller-to-Processor Model Clauses
At the recent IAPP Global Privacy Summit in Washington, D.C., many hot topics were addressed: Privacy by Design, Behavioral Advertising, the new EU Cookie Consent Law, the Smart Power Grid, the Cloud, Web 2.0, the new EU Model Clause Agreements, Controllers, Processors and Sub-Processors, the recent Google convictions, to name just a few. I interviewed […]
Posted by Monique Altheim on April 24, 2010
https://ediscoverymap.com/2010/04/iapp-global-privacy-summit-2010-hot-topics-robert-rothman-on-the-new-eu-controller-to-processor-model-clausesmodel/
IAPP Global Privacy Summit 2010 – Hot Topics: Cédric Laurant and the EPHR project
At the recent IAPP Global Privacy Summit in Washington, D.C., many hot topics were addressed: Privacy by Design, Behavioral Advertising, the new EU Cookie Consent Law, the Smart Power Grid, the Cloud, Web 2.0, the new EU Model Clause Agreements, Controllers, Processors and Sub-Processors, the recent Google convictions, to name just a few. I interviewed […]
Posted by Monique Altheim on April 23, 2010
https://ediscoverymap.com/2010/04/iapp-global-privacy-summit-2010-hot-topics-cedric-laurant-and-the-ephr-project/
EU Cross Border Ediscovery, Standard Contractual Clauses, and Sub Processors: What Will Change on May 15, 2010?
How the New EU Rules on Data Export Affect Companies in and outside the EU by Dr. Thomas Helbing On 5 February 2010 the Commission of the European Union (EU) has updated the set of standard contractual clauses for the transfer of personal data to processors in non-EU countries. The old clauses are repealed with […]
Posted by Monique Altheim on March 26, 2010
https://ediscoverymap.com/2010/03/cross-border-ediscovery-from-the-eu-standard-contractual-clauses-and-sub-processors-what-will-change-on-may-15-2010/
The French Data Protection Authority: Video Surveillance Images are “Personal Data”
POSTED ON MARCH 16, 2010 BY HUNTON & WILLIAMS LLP In a decision handed down on February 25, 2010, the French Constitutional Court ruled that the right to privacy derives from Article 2 of the Declaration of Human Rights, and is therefore considered a constitutional right under French law. The Court also ruled that the legislature must […]
Posted by Monique Altheim on March 19, 2010
https://ediscoverymap.com/2010/03/the-french-data-protection-authority-video-surveillance-images-are-personal-data/