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French Data Protection Authority Takes Stock After 4 Months of GDPR

Four months after the GDPR came into effect, the French Data Protection Authority (“CNIL“) published a first assessment with some impressive figures:

It received more than 600 personal data breach notifications, ‎i.e., about 7 notifications each day, involving approximately 15 million individuals.
It received 3,767 complaints from individuals. As we commented on this blog,…

New Data Protection Obligations In Europe: Data Protection Officers and Impact Assessment under the New General Data Protection Regulation (GDPR)

The full text of the General Data Protection Regulation (GDPR) was published on 4 May 2016. Although the GDPR will not be effective until 25 May 2018, it is worth looking into it right now given the major changes it makes to the rules in the 1995 Directive.

Application of the GDPR

The GDPR applies to the processing of personal data by companies having an “establishment” in the European Union,… More