November 2016 - | WorldITLawyers - A network of specialists in ecommerce law, privacy and data protection, etc.

November 2016 - | WorldITLawyers - A network of specialists in ecommerce law, privacy and data protection, etc.
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Data & Privacy: £400k fine for TalkTalk is biggest ever, and ICO breaks its silence on Brexit, by Harbottle & Lewis
Record fine imposed on TalkTalk The ICO has fined TalkTalk a record £400,000 for poor website security following the October 2015 hack in which data from nearly 157,000 customers was [...]
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Doing Business in Europe? Mandatory Data Protection Compliance in Every Single Country
A lot has been written about two recent court cases related to Facebook. The first one is the case of the Austrian student Maximilian Schrems against the Data Protection Commissioner [...]
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The Affero GPL’s secret to success, by Timelex
Over the past few years, many software license templates have come and gone. One license seems to be growing in popularity recently: the Affero General Public License (AGPL). It’s worth [...]
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EU’s general cybersecurity legislation has arrived, by Timelex
A milestone achieved At the beginning of the month, on the 6th of July 2016, the European Parliament voted in favor of what can be construed as the EU’s first [...]
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Data Protection Officer: Mandatory for Your Company?, by Timelex
A Data Protection Officer is a position or role within an organisation. The Data Protection Officer oversees the processing of personal and privacy-sensitive information. When the General Data Protection Regulation [...]