Thirty years ago, this November, East and West Germans began crossing the Berlin Wall after the German Democratic Republic (GDR) announced that East German citizens could freely visit West Germany and West Berlin. Within a short amount of time, both Easterners and Westerners started tearing down parts of the Wall, symbolizing the subsequent wearing down…
Reading Time: 4 minutes, 37 seconds The €50 million fine levied last week by the French National Commission on Informatics and Liberty (CNIL) against Google for violations of the GDPR has struck the tech industry with a resounding thunderclap, sending shockwaves that are being felt in boardrooms across the globe. As the first significant penalty…
The clock is ticking on the European Union’s new privacy law, the General Data Protection Regulation (GDPR). We’re less than one year away from when the GDPR comes into force, May 25, 2018. This new regulation imposes sweeping privacy protection requirements on any entities that oversee personal data operations or process personal data in the…
France’s new Digital Republic Act [1] significantly strengthens protections that control how French businesses use and retain personally identifying data. The law expands the scope and authority of the 1978 French Data Protection Act and brings the country to the foreground of modernizing the legal framework of the information economy ahead of the 2018 implementation of…