Category: Data Sharing

data transfers from jersey to usa
Data Sharing

Data Transfers from Jersey to 3rd Countries, mainly the USA

We have all read about the recent judgement by Court of Justice of the European Union (CJEU) on the EU-US Privacy Shield and Standard Contractual Clauses (SCC’s).  I am not going to go into the history of the cases Schrems has brought to the Irish Data Protection Commission against US companies likes of Facebook. What

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data protection of cookies, biometrics and outsourcing DPO
Cookies

Data Protection: cookies, biometrics & DPO positions

This is our second blog of 2020, we have been busy with working on compliance projects, conducting DPIA’s and being engaged to be DPO’s for Public Authorities and private organisations.  Our main office in Jersey closed down due to COVID-19 and all our planned training courses in the Channel Islands and Ireland had to be

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workplace data protection and eu fines
Data Protection

GDPR Updates: Workplace data & EU fines

We have decided to do this blog every two weeks because we can give you more relevant information and more time for you to get around reading the parts that might interest you. In this blog we are looking at articles on, Guernsey’s new data protection regime, using CCTV in the work place, a decision

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Data Protection: EU-US Privacy Shield & Data Breach
Data Sharing

Data Protection: EU-US Privacy Shield & Data Breach

In this weeks blog I have selected two main articles for your attention. The first confirms the acceptability of the EU-US Privacy Shield but warns that more enforcement must follow for breaches. The second is another Data Breach class action launched, this time against Equifax for a breach in 2017. The most notable fine this month

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data protection weekly update october 2019
Cookies

Data Protection: Weekly update and news, October 2019

Week ending 18/10/19 We have seen lots of articles this week on a deal or no-deal situation and the possible issues with data transfers to and from the UK, once they leave and more about Cookies.  This is the hot topic for this week, with the judgement of the Planet49 decision, clearly showing that consent

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EU data protection fines in october 2019
Data Sharing

Latest Fines from around the EU, October 2019

Here, we’ll cover the latest fines due to lack of data protection. Hungarian National Authority for Data Protection and the Freedom of Information (NAIH) 2019-XX-XX         €15,150 – Unknown           Art. 33 GDPR      Insufficient fulfilment of data breach obligations – The data controller did not fulfil its data breach obligations when a flash memory with personal data

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data sharing post brexit considerations
Data Sharing

Data Sharing | Post Brexit

As part of the UK Governments series of technical notices which sets out information to allow businesses and citizens to understand what they would need to do in a ‘no deal’ scenario, so they can make informed plans and preparations. The UK Government recently published guidance on what to do about data protection in the

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