The Covid-19 pandemic saw the rise of remote working. In light of this, an increasing number of organisations are also seeking to adopt monitoring tools in order to observe the productivity of employees. Under Article 4 of the General Data Protection Regulation (GPDR), behavioural characteristics of an individual constitutes as personal data. Therefore, the GDPR [...]
It has been almost a year since the Court of Justice of the European Union (CJEU) issued its well-known Schrems II decision which invalidated the Privacy Shield for data transfers between the EU and US. The Court established that if Standard Contractual Clauses (SCCs) are used instead, the sending party must examine privacy laws [...]
As a result of Brexit, under the General Data Protection Regulation (GDPR), UK became a “third” country. This means organisations need to put in place a safeguard to transfer personal data to a third country, typically Standard Contractual Clauses, known as SCCs. On 28 June 2021, the European Commission (EC) adopted two adequacy decisions for the [...]
France Following the publication of the cookie guidelines and recommendations, the French Data Protection Authority (DPA), the CNIL, has issued 20 organisations with formal notices giving them a month to comply with cookie laws. These include international digital players and public bodies. If they fail to comply by the deadline, they face fines of up to 2% of their turnover. [...]
The EU Commission has published draft regulations setting out harmonised rules on artificial intelligence (AI) that aim to regulate this rapidly developing area of technology. The regulations take a risk-based approach, identifying AI uses in one of the following categories: (i) an unacceptable risk, (ii) a high risk and (iii) a low or minimal risk. [...]
In an interview with 'The Modern CIO' for Workato (Workato is the leading Enterprise Automation Platform, enabling businesses and IT to integrate their apps and automate business workflows), our CEO Dyann Heward-Mills highlighted the importance for organisations to take responsibility for data management in order to be able to operate successfully in this digital world [...]
Last month, our CEO Dyann Heward-Mills participated on a PrivSec panel with Active Navigation and Faegre Drinker to discuss Data Mapping, DPOs, Consumer Protection and how to create a winning approach for global privacy compliance. In the webinar recording [CLICK HERE TO WATCH], Dyann discussed the importance of accountability and the legitimate processing of data. She [...]
'Data Mapping: DPOs and consumer protection: Creating a winning approach for global privacy compliance' On Thursday 16th July 2020 BST 2pm, join CEO Dyann Heward-Mills in conversation with CEO Peter Baumann from Active Navigation and Counsel Katherine Armstrong from Faegre Drinker on Data Mapping. Key Takeaways from the webinar session will be: [...]
Data Breach in the EU: The New Landscape Privacy and Security Academy Our European Data Protection Director and Corporate Governance Counsel, Tilly Lang will be in Washington DC on 14-16th October 2019 to attend the Privacy and Security Academy and data breach in the EU. The session will focus on the way that [...]
Compliance in Practice: MiFID II Summary & your questions answered Technological. Regulatory. Legal. Join JP Reis and Heward Mills at an exclusive breakfast briefing that aims to unpack the compliance, legal and operational challenges around MiFID II (Markets in Financial Instruments Directive). Includes an MiFID II Summary and an explanation of how [...]
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