Code≠Law: The race to regulate
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13 February 2019
The German FCO/Facebook decision: implications for data privacy regulation
The German competition authority, the Federal Cartel Office ("FCO") last week announced the results of its investigation into Facebook for a novel abuse …
04 February 2019
Brexit and its impact on international transfers of personal data
Miriam Everett, Head of the Data Protection and Privacy group at Herbert Smith Freehills, has been working with the LexisNexis Data Protection …
28 January 2019
Happy International Data Privacy Day!
28 January 2019
Japan Adequacy Decision Adopted by the EU Commission
On 23 January 2019, the EU Commission adopted a decision confirming the adequacy of Japanese data protection laws for the purpose of transferring …
10 January 2019
Cyberattack on German Public Figures Leads To One of Germany's Largest Data Breaches
Last week, it was announced that during December 2018 almost one thousand German public figures, including journalists and a number of prominent …
07 January 2019
Data Protection Predictions 2019
2018 was a landmark year for data protection and privacy; the EU General Data Protection Regulation ("GDPR") came into effect on 25 May 2018 …
04 January 2019
UK Government note clarifies "no deal" and data protection
The UK Government has published a "no deal" note to clarify how data protection law will work in the event that the UK leaves the EU without a deal. The …
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