Whilst a lot of attention has been given to European data protection legislation, we should not forget some interesting developments which are happening in Asia at the moment. Indeed a spate of new data protection legislation has been prepared and in some cases already passed in the last year. For example, Malaysia will have its [...]

Any readers aiming to get their organisation’s response to the MoJ consultation ready in time for the 6 March deadline will find much food for thought in the ICO’s initial analysis, published earlier this week. The Initial analysis of the European Commission’s proposals for a revised data protection legislative framework covers both the draft Regulation [...]

So, the reports that we would not see the detail of the reforms until March proved unfounded. The official publication of the Commission’s DP reform proposals earlier today, exactly on schedule,  cannot have escaped the notice of Datonomy readers. (But just in case, the link to the package of new measures is here .) The centre [...]

The draft data protection regulation of the European Commission that had leaked in early December has been widely criticised by the German Minister of the Interior and aFederal Constitutional Court judge. The points of concern were not the new and mainly stricter rules of the draft regulation, but that the European Commission chose a regulation [...]

The ICO has today  published its promised “half term report” on organisations’ compliance with the new cookie consent rules, along with updated practical guidance.   On third party cookies, which the ICO acknowledges is “one of the most challenging areas” for compliance, the ICO states that it is still working with industry and other DP regulators to [...]