Fines in Australia for Data Protection Violations

In an era dominated by digital interactions, the safeguarding of personal and sensitive data has become a paramount concern. Governments globally are enacting stringent data protection laws to ensure the sanctity of individuals’ information. Australia stands firmly in this movement, fortified by robust data protection regulations and diligent regulatory bodies entrusted with their enforcement. In […]

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Exploring Data Protection Beyond GDPR – What You Need to Know About NIS2 Directive

Data protection laws are constantly changing in today’s world, so you can never be sure that you are up-to-date. There are so many of them that it’s sometimes hard to keep up with all. So, let’s introduce you gradually to some of the most important ones. Taking a look at the NIS2 Directive from our […]

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Don’t Get Caught Out: How US Companies Can Comply with the GDPR after the Adequacy decision from the EU

In the recent blog Finally Unlocking Transatlantic Data Flow: How the Adequacy Decision Impacts US and EU Companies we explain how this EU decision unlocked the transatlantic personal data flow from EEA and in near future UK and Switzerland to the US. But what does this unlocked flow mean for US companies that receive personal […]

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ICO issue fine of £4.4 to Interserve for security failings

On 24 October 2022, the ICO issued a penalty notice (MPN) to Interserve Group Limited (Interserve), imposing a fine of £4.4m for violations of the GDPR (the violations were pre-Brexit). The ICO found that Interserve had failed to put appropriate technical and organizational measures in place to secure personal data (in contravention of Articles 5(1)(f) […]

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President Biden Signs Executive Order to Implement the European Union-U.S. Data Privacy Framework

President Biden signed an Executive Order on Enhancing Safeguards for United States Signals Intelligence Activities (E.O.) directing the steps that the United States will take to implement the U.S. commitments under the European Union-U.S. Data Privacy Framework (EU-U.S. DPF) announced by President Biden and European Commission President von der Leyen in March of 2022.  The […]

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Accountability Tracker

As your Article 27 Representative we will always help if you receive a SAR, RTE, or other data protection complaint. It is always best to avoid these all together but most companies will receive GDPR requests at some point.  Disgruntled ex-employees, annoyed customers, malicious compensation-scammers are common sources of SARs and unfortunately these can result […]

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Umgang mit Anträgen auf Zugang zu personenbezogenen Daten

We have said this previously but we are still seeing a huge number of Subject Access Requests [SARs]. A SAR is a request made by or on behalf of the data subjects which grants the right to obtain a copy of all the personal data that an organization has collected about them. These are pretty […]

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Recht auf Löschung und wie man damit umgeht

Summary: The Right to Be Forgotten is one of the fundamental rights defined in GDPR.  Also known as a Right to Erasure this principle defined in Article 17. It is vital that companies recognize these requests and understand how to deal with them. Most importantly the Right to Erasure is not an absolute right and […]

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Latest biggest updates from ICO

This 1 year period ICO has published very beneficial documents that are very important for the Data protection of the subjects and related to other topics. In this post will share chronologicaly the most important events month by month. April 2021 We have published guidance on the National Security Provisions in Part 3 of the DPA18 and […]

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Wie sollten Sie einen Antrag auf Zustimmung verfassen und welche Informationen sollte er enthalten?

Wie sollten Sie einen Antrag auf Zustimmung verfassen? Ersuchen um Einwilligung müssen auffällig, knapp und leicht verständlich sein und sich von anderen Informationen wie allgemeinen Geschäftsbedingungen unterscheiden. In Artikel 7 Absatz 2 heißt es: "Wird die Einwilligung der betroffenen Person im Rahmen einer schriftlichen Erklärung erteilt, die auch andere Angelegenheiten betrifft, so ist die Aufforderung zur Einwilligung [...]

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