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ICO announces biggest GDPR fines to date

Jul 2019

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In the past two days, the UK Information Commissioner’s Office (ICO) has issued (potential) GDPR fines of £183.39m and £99.2m on British Airways (BA) and Marriott International Inc., respectively....

EDPB issues draft guidelines on the contractual necessity legal basis in the context of online services

Apr 2019

Article

The EDPB has released new draft guidelines 2/2019 on the contractual necessity legal basis for processing personal data in the context of the provision of online services to data subjects. The...

Deputy Data Protection Commissioners discuss GDPR implementation with Oireachtas Committee

Apr 2019

Article

On 3 April 2019, the Joint Committee on Justice and Equality met to discuss the implementation of the GDPR with Ms Anna Morgan (Deputy Commissioner), Ms Jennifer O’Sullivan (Deputy Commissioner), and...

Government’s Gender Pay Gap Bill now published

Apr 2019

Article

The much-anticipated text of the Government's Gender Pay Gap (GPG) Information Bill (the Bill) has now been published. In amending the Employment Equality Acts 1998-2015, the Bill envisages that the...

EDPB publishes review of GDPR cooperation and consistency mechanism

Apr 2019

Article

The EDPB has published its first review of the implementation of the GDPR, in particular the functioning of the cooperation and consistency mechanism. The GDPR requires EU Data Protection Supervisory...

Advocate General finds a pre-ticked checkbox does not constitute valid consent for cookies

Mar 2019

Article

The Advocate General of the Court of Justice of the EU (CJEU) has delivered an Opinion in the Planet49 case (Case C-673/17), finding that a pre-ticked checkbox giving consent for...

Government consults on new Online Safety Act

Mar 2019

Article

On 4 March 2019, Minister Richard Bruton TD announced that he will introduce an Online Safety Act to regulate harmful content online and ensure children are safe online. The Act will also...

DPC publishes results of Global Privacy Sweep for 2018

Mar 2019

Article

The Data Protection Commission (DPC) has published the results of the annual Global Privacy Sweep for 2018, which examined how well organisations are implementing the concept of accountability. The Global Privacy...

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ICO announces biggest GDPR fines to date

EDPB issues draft guidelines on the contractual necessity legal basis in the context of online services

Deputy Data Protection Commissioners discuss GDPR implementation with Oireachtas Committee

Government’s Gender Pay Gap Bill now published

EDPB publishes review of GDPR cooperation and consistency mechanism

Advocate General finds a pre-ticked checkbox does not constitute valid consent for cookies

Government consults on new Online Safety Act

DPC publishes results of Global Privacy Sweep for 2018