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The Russian lawmakers keep consistently implementing the new product labelling system. New regulations affect almost every segment of the domestic market and every imported good. The main goals the lawmakers pursue are: organization of control over the product movements and prevention of introduction of falsified, low-quality and counterfeit goods into the market.
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New Act on Personal Data Processing in the Czech Republic After a twelve-moth legislative process, the Czech Parliament has finally passed new Act No. 110/2019 Sb. on personal data processing, repealing and replacing existing Act No. 101/2000 Sb., this March. The Act is particularly an adaptation act following the General Data Protection Regulation (GDPR) which has been providing for a uniform regulation in the European Union since 25 May 2018. Click here to read the full article »
The European Data Protection Board (hereinafter “EDPB”), which first priority is to contribute to the consistent application of data protection rules throughout the European Union has published a call for comments concerning Guidelines 2/2019 on the processing of personal data under Article 6(1)(b) GDPR in the context of the provision of online services to data subjects.
On April 9th, 2019, Cabinet of Ministers has approved amendments to the Regulations of the Cabinet of Ministers on the Use of Electronic Devices and other Equipment for Tax and other Payment Registration dated February 11th, 2014, hereinafter referred to as the Regulations, aiming at bringing it in compliance with the General Data Protection Regulation (GDPR).
Nearly 10 months after the effective date of the General Data Protection Regulation (GDPR), the President of the Polish Personal Data Protection Office (PDPO) has imposed the very first fine for unlawful data processing. The fine has been imposed on a company which processes publicly available data from e.g. the Polish Central Registry and Information on Businesses. The company uses the above data for analysis using the scoring models.Click here to read the full article »
In February 2019, the regional supervisory authority in Baden-Wuerttemberg (Germany) imposed a fine for the improper use of participant data gathered for the organization of an event. In preparation for a regional conference of a political party, the chairman of the party's youth organisation received information on the names, ages and places of residence of all 168 participants.
On 21 March 2019, Advocate General Maciej Szpunar ('Advocate General') of the Court of Justice of the European Union ('ECJ') delivered an opinion on how to obtain valid consent to the use of cookies. The opinion was given in view of case C-673/17 between Planet49 GmbH and the Federation of German Consumer Organisations, the "Bundesverband".
Buttarelli suggested a proposal to the Italian legislator: additional rules need to be introduced into the Italian data protection law to sanction Italian political parties that violate citizens' personal data for political purposes. "The Italian Privacy Code has been readapted", but "this code should cover the future and not include other limitations, and could be enriched with shared ethical rules that sees the parties and political forces sit down and not limit themselves, but take a step that allows you to make the best use of digital platforms and technology, assuming that what comes in terms of integrity and transparency of political forces goes beyond the interests of the party, but concerns the entire sector".
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The provision concerns a case of data breach learned by Italian Data Protection Authority through the publication of newspaper articles informing citizens about a data breach suffered by a branch of a political party: the website of the Florence branch of a national political party had been hacked.
The guidelines provide the basic measures that the various artificial intelligence stakeholders should follow in order to ensure that AI applications do not undermine human dignity and human rights and fundamental freedoms of any individual and, in particular, the right to data protection.
Are the minimum security measures dead? Without going into the merits of the inevitable, but useless, political and party polemics, attention must be drawn to the most significant aspect of the measure of the Italian Data Protection Authority relating to the Rousseau platform: a few weeks before Easter, the authority has confirmed to us that the repealed minimum security measures are still alive.
The ICO has warned employees that they might face a criminal prosecution if they access or share personal data without a ‘valid business reason’. The warning was issued after the Birmingham Magistrates’ Court fined two workers in separate cases for breaching data protection laws.
In Italy, human intelligence maintains its state of supremacy over robots because the decisions of machines are questionable before a human judge. The Italian Supreme Administrative Court dealing with algorithms and administrative procedure has sided in defense of individual rights when the decision-maker is a programmed computer (decision n. 2270 of 8 April 2019). The supreme authority of administrative justice has established that in these cases there must be maximum transparency on how the robot is programmed and how it works and the contestability to a human being of fully automated decisions.Click here to read more (in Italian) »
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