07 January 2019
Big Data & Issues & Opportunities: General Overview
www.twobirds.com/en/news/articles/2019/global/big-data-and-issues-and-opportunities-general-overview

This introductory article is the first in a series of articles looking into the legal, ethical and social issues and opportunities surrounding big data, which were brought to the forefront by the LeMO Project ...

04 February 2019
Big Data & Issues & Opportunities: Breach-related obligations
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In this fifth article in our series on "Big Data & Issues & Opportunities" (see our previous article here), we focus on some of the breach-related obligations in a big data context. Where relevant, illustrations from ...

28 January 2019
Big Data & Issues & Opportunities: Cybersecurity
www.twobirds.com/en/news/articles/2019/global/big-data-and-issues-and-opportunities-cybersecurity

In this fourth article in our series on "Big Data & Issues & Opportunities" (see our previous article here), we focus on some of the cybersecurity aspects of big data processing. Where relevant, illustrations from the ...

18 April 2018
Transparency: Article 29 Working Party issues final guidelines
www.twobirds.com/en/news/articles/2018/global/transparency-article-29-working-party-issues-final-guidelines

On 11 April 2018 the Article 29 Working Party ('A29WP') published its finalised Guidance on transparency under GDPR.

04 March 2020
Presidency introduces 'legitimate interests' into amended proposal
www.twobirds.com/en/news/articles/2020/global/presidency-introduces-legitimate-interests-into-amended-proposal

The Croatian Presidency of the EU has issued an amended proposal for an e-Privacy Regulation, to be discussed during the meeting of the Working Party on Telecommunications and Information Society on March 5 and 12. ...

03 December 2019
Pay attention to IT security to avoid GDPR fines
www.twobirds.com/en/news/articles/2019/global/pay-attention-to-it-security-to-avoid-gdpr-fines

It has been over 1,5 years since the General Data Protection Regulation (GDPR) has become applicable. While there was little enforcement in the first months, this has changed: European Data Protection Authorities (DPAs) ...

16 January 2020
CCPA: the Californian Consumer Privacy Act officially takes effect this January
www.twobirds.com/en/news/articles/2020/global/ccpa-the-californian-consumer-privacy-act-officially-takes-effect-this-january

Adopted in June 2018, California's new Consumer Privacy Protection Act (CCPA) came into effect on January 1, 2020. Now considered as a priority, the question arises as to how companies can succeed in complying with all ...

23 April 2018
Consent: Article 29 Working Party issues final guidance
www.twobirds.com/en/news/articles/2018/global/consent-article-29-working-party-issues-final-guidance

The Article 29 Working Party (A29WP) has now published its final guidance on consent under GDPR (WP259 rev 0.1).

30 July 2019
CJEU Fashion ID Case: Thumbs down to Facebook's "Like" feature
www.twobirds.com/en/news/articles/2019/global/cjeu-fashion-id-case-thumbs-down-to-facebook's-like-feature

The decision (case C-210/16) deals mainly with the issue of “joint controllership” between Facebook and website operators using Facebook's 'Like' button on their website. The highest EU court decided that the operator ...

19 June 2020
Record breaking GDPR fine imposed in Hungary as a result of a website security vulnerability
www.twobirds.com/en/news/articles/2020/hungary/record-breaking-gdpr-fine-imposed-in-hungary-as-a-result-of-a-website-security-vulnerability

Since the GPDR became applicable in 2018, the Hungarian Data Protection Authority (NAIH) has seemed reluctant to impose high administrative fines. Until now the highest fine amount was approx. EUR 87,000. This has ...