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 […]
Article 29 Working Party Opinion 8/2010 on Applicable Law, Article 4 (1) EU Data Protection Directive 95/46/EC and Smartphone Apps
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 […]
https://ediscoverymap.com/2010/12/676/
Tunisia: International Conference on the Protection of Personal Data in a World without Borders
Yesterday, an international conference on data protection of personal data took place in Tunis, as reported in this article . The theme of the conference was: Data Protection of Personal Information in a world without borders and the challenges of new technologies. Tunisian Minister of Justice and Human Rights, Mr. Lazher Bououini, reaffirmed Tunisian’s President […]
https://ediscoverymap.com/2010/12/tunisia-international-conference-on-the-protection-of-personal-data-in-a-world-without-borders/
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 […]
https://ediscoverymap.com/2010/10/first-tweeted-intl-data-protection-and-privacy-commissioners-conference-jerusalem-2010/