5th EDPD Plenary Session: EU-Japan draft adequacy decision, DPIA lists, Artile 43 GDPR

The 5th EDPD Plenary Session took place last week on 4 and 5 December 2018.  Main points of the agenda included the EU-Japan draft adequacy decision, the adoption of opinions on the Data Protection Impact Assessment (DPIA) lists submitted by Denmark, Croatia, Luxembourg and Slovenia, and the revision of the Article 29 Working Party guidelines on accreditation. ...

EDPB establishes common criteria for Data Protection Impact Assessment lists drafted by national supervisory authorities

On 26 September 2018, the European Data Protection Board (“EDPB”) adopted Opinions on the draft lists, submitted by the respective national supervisory authorities, on the processing operations subject to the requirement of a data protection impact assessment (“DPIA”). The Opinions which result from the obligation for supervisory authorities to establish a list of the kind of processing operations that ...

EDPD Opinion 23/2018

The European Data Protection Board (EDPD) recently published its Opinion 23/2018 on Commission proposals on European Production and Preservation Orders for electronic evidence in criminal matters (Art. 70.1.b) which was approved on 28 September 2018.  The Opinion comes in light of the April 2018 Commission two complementary legislative proposals aiming to foster coordination among EU Member State authorities ...

The importance of the Records of processing activities (Art. 30 GDPR)

A number of Supervisory Authorities have already mentioned that their investigations on GDPR compliance will start from the analysis of the Records of processing activities (Art. 30 GDPR). By having accurate and complete Records, organisations will be able to prove that they are taking the GDPR seriously by applying a systematic approach to mapping and ...