Lauren Webb – Senior associate – Brownejacobson LLP One year on since the GDPR came into force – no significant fines yet, but one retailer has shown that businesses are responsible for their employees’ data breaches (even where that employee was acting against instructions). The Information Commissioner’s Office (ICO) in the UK is investigating...
Mgr. Bc. Tomáš Mudra, Counsel at UEPA advokáti Even though personal data protection has been a discussed topic during last year, we have seen many misguided GDPR implementations and a significant level of GDPR incomprehension still continues. This lack has been exacerbated by the delay of the Czech Republic to modify its legislation so far. The...
Marta Margiocco, Associate, Cocuzza & Associati The Italian law that has integrated the GDPR and harmonized the previous Italian regulation on data protection was adopted only on August 10, 2018 and entered into force on September 19, 2018. This has contributed to some degree of uncertainty in the interpretation of the GDPR and to a general...
Patricia McGovern - DFMG Solicitors For some organisations GDPR implementation has created a significant financial, time and administration burden. Organisations have had to increase their legal and regulatory budget in order to manage GDPR expectations. According to the Annual Report of the DPC covering the period between May 25 and December 31,...
Dr. Sebastian Meyer, LL. M., Attorney-at-law and notary / data protection auditor (TÜV), BRANDI Rechtsanwälte Partnerschaft mbB. All non-public authorities in Germany are obliged to appoint a data protection officer, provided that (i) at least ten persons are involved in the auto-mated processing of personal data or provided that (ii) processing...
