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2016.08.28
Senegal becomes the 50th state to accede to the Data Protection Convention - “Convention 108”
Strasbourg, 25.08.2016 – The Republic of Senegal today became the third non-European state to accede to the Convention for the protection of individuals with regard to Automatic Processing of Personal Data, also known as “Convention 108”, and its Additional Protocol, taking the total number of States Parties to the treaty to 50.
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Putin Is Building a Great Russian Firewall
by Leonid Ragozin, Michael Riley
Denis Davydov, executive director of the Safe Internet League, a nongovernmental organization closely linked to the Kremlin, is happy with what the Duma did this summer. Davydov says a piece of legislation signed into law on July 7 by President Vladimir Putin will protect the nation from terrorists. The law requires internet service providers such as MTS, a cell phone operator, and search engine Yandex to store all Russian traffic, including all private chat rooms, e-mails, and social network posts, for as long as six months at their own expense as of July 1, 2018. The providers, which include global giants such as Facebook’s WhatsApp, must also surrender encryption keys to Russian security services. The backers of the measure argue that by giving the Kremlin total access to internet traffic, the guardians of public safety will never be taken unawares.
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2016.04.14
IAB Europe: Adoption of the General Data Protection Regulation
Brussels, 14 April 2016 – IAB Europe takes note of the European Parliament’s vote adopting comprehensive new rules for the protection of personal data.
The European Parliament today voted in favor of new comprehensive rules on the protection of personal data and privacy to take effect in 2018. The Council of the EU already endorsed the text. Companies now have 24 months to become compliant with the regulation.
“In many ways the General Data Protection Regulation is an imperfect piece of legislation, but there is no use in crying over spilled milk. What is important now is to ensure legal certainty for businesses. Companies are faced with the herculean task of becoming compliant with the new rules in time by adapting their products, services, processes and privacy policies,” said Townsend Feehan, CEO of IAB Europe. “It is now the joint responsibility of industry and regulators to work together to determine how to make the new rules work in practice.”
“Our hope is that we can soon find find stability in what is currently an uncertain regulatory environment. The regulation aspires to comprehensively regulate the use of personal data in the EU, adapting the legal framework to the online environment. What we must avoid is that the recently-launched review of the ePrivacy Directive leads to a renewed discussion on data protection rules and a further layer of regulation for identifiers, such as cookie identifiers, that are already covered by the GDPR.”
Once the General Data Protection Regulation is published in the Official Journal of the European Union, it will take effect in 2 years and 20 days’ time.
For more information, please contact Townsend Feehan on +32478275074 ([email protected]).
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2016.01.26
Net neutrality-lovin' Sweden mulls law to censor the internet
The Swedish government is considering overturning its long-held opposition to internet filtering – so says one of the country's most high-profile ISPs.
According to Bahnhof and its CEO Jon Karlung, the ISP received an email from an investigator who said he had been appointed by the government to look into regulating the Swedish gambling market.
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