Web Tracking: What does the International Working Group on Data Protection in...
IWGDPT The International Working Group on Data Protection in Telecommunications (IWGDPT) is based in Berlin and formed by “representatives from Data Protection Authorities and other bodies of national...
View ArticleUpdate on Data Breach Notification for telecoms operators and ISP
Background In accordance to the press release of the European Commission this Regulation foreseeing “technical implementing measures” intents to “ensure all (Telecoms Operators and IPS) customers...
View Article35th Annual Privacy Commissioners’ Conference: DPAs Resolutions
The resolution that stood out: cross border enforcement coordination According to Jacob Kohnstamm, Chairman of the Article 29 Working Party, the Data Protection Authorities (DPAs) gathered in these...
View ArticleMass Data Mining for Purposes of Surveillance concerns the CCBE
The CCBE The CCBE represents more than 1 million European lawyers through the bars and law societies of 32 member countries and 11 further associate and observer countries. Trust in the rule of law is...
View Article29 WP adopts guidance on how to obtain consent for cookies
Consent requirements In order to be valid consent must be informed, prior, freely given and engage an active behaviour from the data subject. How consent shall be considered fully informed? The...
View ArticleEmployees’ Monitoring of Information and Communication Technologies Private...
1. General Requirements Despite being in line with the previous ones (issued on 29 October 2002) these guidelines establish some new rules as far as phone calls, e-mail and internet monitoring...
View ArticlePortugal: New Online Notification Forms for Employees’ Monitoring
Reduce significantly the time period for obtaining the authorisation These new specific online forms intend to significantly reduce the time that the Portuguese Data Protection Authority takes to...
View ArticlePortugal: While waiting for the Regulator to issue guidelines the Portuguese...
Processing of GPS data Since then, no further authorisations have been granted despite the several notifications pending. This is a topic that was discussed with the industry in 2012 and since then the...
View ArticlePortuguese Regulator celebrated SID 2014 with a privacy by default project!
How does it work? This project called Pen C3Priv is also portable, i.e. the user may download the several applications to a Pen which allow the user to use them even when is using a public computer,...
View ArticleThe highest fine ever imposed by the Portuguese Regulator in the amount of...
Unlawful access to telephone records The case can be traced back to the summer of 2010 and concerns the unlawful access to telephone records of a journalist by an employee of the convicted mobile...
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