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What is changing in each member's jurisdiction — enforcement, case law, new obligations.

710 articles

New member has joined the INPLP Mr. Satoshi Shono (Japan)

Matsuda & Partners is a one-stop shop, offering a variety of legal services that cover business related practice including corporate law, M&A deals, intellectual property, IT/privacy law, cros…

4 June 2020

Marketing & cookies

Greek data protection watchdog makes its presence clear

During the unprecedented Covid-19 pandemic, but also before its appearance, the Greek Data Protection Authority (“DPA”) has taken an active stance both at the regulatory level where it issued useful guidelines and opinions and at the enforcement level by conducting audits and imposing fines to organisations that were found in violation of the data protection legislation.

1 June 2020

Presentation of the casebook on Data Protection

INPLP member, Olumide Babalola (Lagos, Nigeria), cordially invites the general public to the (virtual) presentation of a book titled “Casebook on Data Protection” on Thursday, June 4, 2020 at 1 P.M. (…

28 May 2020

When is it legal to be named as a reference?

For many companies, it is significant for customer acquisition not only to present the advantages of their own products and services, but also to publish references. After all, references signal success. They stand for experience and trustworthiness when acquiring new customers. However, when can you legally name references?

25 May 2020

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New member has joined the INPLP. Mr. Michel Molitor and Mrs. Virginie Liebermann (Luxemburg)

Founded in 1996, MOLITOR Avocats à la Cour is a highly respected and independent law firm in Luxembourg City, a full-service firm which has grown over the years to comprise a staff of 50 people, inclu…

22 May 2020

EU Guidance on Apps Supporting Fight against COVID-19 Pandemic in Relation to Data Protection

At the end of April, the European Union published non-binding guidance on apps supporting the fight against COVID 19 pandemic in relation to data protection (2020/C 124 I/01).

18 May 2020

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New member has joined the INPLP. Mrs Nicole Beranek Zanon (Switzerland)

Nicole Beranek Zanon is a founding partner of de la cruz beranek Attorneys at Law Lt, which is one of the leading IT boutique law firms in Switzerland focused on IT, information and communication law…

18 May 2020

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New member has joined the INPLP. Mr Xawery Konarski (Poland)

Xawery Konarski is Senior Partner at Traple Konarski Podrecki & Partners which is one of the leading law firms on the Polish market (20 years of experience, more than 70 lawyers).With a population…

14 May 2020

Litigation

Facial recognition and GDPR compliance: the impossible convergence?

The use of photographs in police investigations is nothing new. It is the use of algorithms so that a machine, using template image processing, can recognise a suspect in the place of the police officer that constitutes one of the major challenges of the beginning of the 21st century.

13 May 2020

Employment dataLitigation

United Kingdom’s Supreme Court erred on liability of joint-data controllers

UK Supreme Court decision on an employer’s liability for data breach in the case of WM Morrison Supermarkets versus Various Claimants. Morrisons was sued by 9,263 employees for the (malicious) publication of their personal data on the internet by one disgruntled employee of Morrisons.

9 May 2020

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New Member has joined the INPLP. Mr Olumide Babalola (Lagos, Nigeria)

Olumide is the managing partner of Olumide Babalola, LP - his flagship full service law office with particular bias for digital rights, consumer rights litigation, class actions, employment and corpor…

6 May 2020

Enforcement & fines

The Belgian data protection authority fines a data controller 50,000 EUR for appointing a DPO with a potentially conflicting position

It is not too uncommon for a single person to be in charge of general compliance in an organisation, and to also act as its DPO. Is that in line with the GDPR's requirements for independence of the DPO? The Belgian DPA says no, and issued a fine to the data controller.

6 May 2020

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