On May 25th, 2018 the General Data Protection Regulation (GDPR) entered into force. From that date forth, companies were required to comply with the text in order to best protect citizens’ personal data within the European Union. In France, it is the French Data Protection Authority (CNIL) which monitors the compliance of companies with the …
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Alibaba Group: The Impact of GDPR on China’s Enterprises
The EU General Data Protection Regulation (GDPR) is coming into effect on May 25th, 2018. The Regulation will supersede the Directive 95/46/EC. It aims to unify the EU data protection legislations and strengthen EU’s data protection to meet the new privacy challenges brought by the development of digital technologies. GDPR will have significant impact on …
Data protection: The Rise of the Privacy Shield
On July 12th 2016, the European Commission adopted the substitute for the Safe Harbor, the data protection agreement previously signed between the Commission and the United States Department of Commerce in 2010. This new agreement is referred to as the “Privacy Shield”. As a reminder of the present state, the European Union Court of Justice …
Doing Business in the Digital Market: Balance between Data Protection and Competition Law
Companies within the internal market can build their market power by abstracting value from its client’s personal information. When entering into an unfamiliar market, a company should always bear in mind the balance between the levels of protection that it should provide to its consumers and the degree of competitiveness that it holds from controlling …
When data protection mingles with competition law and the right to data portability
According to Margrethe Verstager, European Commissioner for Competition, “we as consumers have a new currency that we can use […] – our data”[1] which most of the time consumers do not realize they posses and this is what the Digital Single Market Strategy addresses. The Digital Single Market Strategy aims at creating easy access and …
Dutch legislative reform introduces an obligation to notify data breaches also applicable to non-Dutch undertakings
The Dutch reform entered into force on the 1st of January 2016 and contains an obligation to notify data breaches in a maximum of 72 hours from the occurrence of the breach[i]. The obligation used to be valid only for data controllers of certain sectors [ii], while this new law extends the obligation to all …
Open data – Definition, Process, Significance, Privacy
In July 2014, the Dutch Central Bureau for Statistics provided its entire database as open data to the public. The term ‘open data’ is loosely used in media reports and political debates, but what does the term open data actually mean? How is the process of providing data as open data developing? How significant are …