GDPR is cracking: Brussels rewrites its prized privacy law

European Commission looks again at its GDPR privacy law

The plan is limited to easing record-keeping for smaller businesses, but the Commission is not ruling out a wider reform at a later stage.

GDPR is cracking: Brussels rewrites its prized privacy law

Proposed changes to the GDPR, it is feared, could open a Pandora’s box of EU tech lobbying.

Centering the Vulnerable through Data Protection - Technology Law

Gianclaudio Malgieri, Vulnerability and Data Protection Law (2023). Scott Skinner-Thompson For American lawyers, the concept of data protection can seem overly bureaucratic and even a bit obtuse. American legal scholars, in general, prefer to think in terms of privacy, with its manifold methods of potential protection of the liberal individual subject via tort causes of action, criminal law, consumer protection, and, occasionally some actual co…

The concept of data processing is at the heart of the General Data Protection Regulation. It is necessary to review its definition and legal regime. I. The definition of the concept of data processing by the General Data Protection Regulation. Article 4.2 of the General Data Protection Regulation (hereinafter "the GDPR") provides that processing is defined as: "any operation or set of operations carried out or not carried out by means of automat…

Minor GDPR Tweaks in Omnibus Package Won't Fix Deeper Issues, CCIA Europe Warns – Global Security Mag Online

Following the European Commission's adoption of the fourth ‘omnibus' simplification package – aimed at simplifying rules for small companies and mid-caps – moments ago, the Computer and Communications Industry Association (CCIA Europe) issued the following statement on the proposed changes to the General Data Protection Regulation (GDPR). The comment from CCIA Europe's Privacy and Safety Lead, Claudia Canelles Quaroni: “Easing GDPR requirements…

Data protection currently has to hold out for a lot of things and often appears as a convenient excuse against digitalization. But our columnist Frederike Kaltheuner still sees the GDPR as an important function. read more on t3n.de