When I think games and cyber security, my mind tends to wander back to time spent playing Uplink. Recently, however, a series of breaches suffered by major players in the games industry have underlined the need for publishers, developers and other participants in the ecosystem, to make cyber security a priority.
The Internet of Things (IoT) is getting regulated through the draft European ePrivacy privacy regulation and the revised database and product liability directives, but is this good news?
"People feel they have lost control of their personal data" and it is hurting public trust in business, says UK information commissioner Elizabeth Denham
How can an organisation modernise data governance and can regulation be seen as an opportunity to increase productivity by optimising data handling practices?
On January 10, 2017, the EU Commission published a package of documents on the EU's data economy strategy, including e-privacy, data protection and the "European Data Economy." The Commission documents, published in the context of the Commission's digital single market ("DSM") initiative announced in May 2015, illustrate again the strong links...
On 10 January, the EU Commission proposed a new Regulation on Privacy and Electronic Communications ("proposed Regulation") to replace Directive 2002/58 (known as the "ePrivacy Directive").
2016 left us with a "brand new" EU General Data Protection Regulation (GDPR). But as soon as 2016 came to an end, we - lawyers - started looking for what is coming next in the data protection world. Here my personal predictions on the privacy legal issues for 2017.
On January 10, 2017, the European Commission presented its Proposal for a Regulation on Privacy and Electronic Communications (the "Proposed Regulation"). The Proposed Regulation would repeal and replace Directive 2002/58/EC (the 2002 ePrivacy Directive, as amended in 2009, which is also frequently referred to as the "Cookie Directive"). The...
In October this year, another interesting decision relating to data protection was issued in response to the constant evolution of modern communication technologies, dealing specifically with the definition of personal data pursuant to Article 2(a) of Directive 95/46/EC and its scope. From our perspective, the judgement of the Court of Justice of...
Since the Personal Data Protection Act (the Act) came into force on 2 July 2014, the Personal Data Protection Commission (the Commission) has published a number of enforcement decisions taken against twenty two organisations for breaching various obligations under the Act. Enforcement actions have been taken against companies in a range of...