Last February 2021, the State Data Protection Inspectorate (SDPI) established that the National Center for Public Health (Nacionaliniam visuomenės sveikatos centrui) and the Company responsible for developing the App, UAB IT Solutions Success (UAB “IT sprendimai sėkmei “), were joint data controllers, hence, fined them both for the breaches to the GDPR. I don’t know the details […]
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AT INTERNATIONAL LEVEL: “No one shall be subjected to arbitrary interference with his Privacy, family, home or correspondence, nor to attacks upon his honour and reputation. Everyone has the right to the protection of the law against such interference or attacks.” “1. No one shall be subjected to arbitrary or unlawful interference with his Privacy, […]
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We spent a lot of time online. Technology is a big part of our social and economic lives. For businesses too, in the pursuit of reaching consumers, have improved their online commercial data collection, processing and sharing. Though technologies such as AI, machine learning, the IoT and VR, which are fundamentally about the human experience; […]
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Millions of businesses start without the desired capital. They born under a strict budget and only with one priority; create the product or service as fast as possible. Under those circumstances, many important things are left behind. Being one of them the management of data. The most common scenarios are: (i) you use several service […]
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I do not consider myself a risk-averse, but definitely, vouch for risk assessments. Simply, we all get the consequences of our actions, so why not to address the things adequately?. I reviewed the alternative transfer tools available to keep on transferring personal data to the U.S. The derogations are limited, and there is no room for […]
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On the 16 of July 2020, the Court of Justice of the European Union ( “CJEU”) declared invalid the Privacy Shield decision and hence, the certification as an adequate mechanism to transfer personal data from the EEA to the U.S. The judgement C-311/18 can be found here. Thus, nowadays, the transfers of personal data from […]
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Every day, you need to provide your data. Give your identification documents and contact details to your employer, or the name of your kids and other information to their school, or your medical history to doctors, or your IP to get your location and obtain directions, and so on. The solution is not to start […]
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Three months ago, the CJEU (the “Court”) held that operators of Facebook Fan pages (Administrators of Fan pages) are jointly responsible for the data processing operations of Facebook of the visitors of those pages -the key points of the case was previously discussed here. However, until today, many organisations have not closed their Fan Pages. […]
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What good could it bring to have the best product if no one knows about it? Marketing as a process by which a product or service is introduced and promoted to potential customers is indeed, one of the core tools for any business. What good could it bring to introduce and promote your product […]
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Under EU data protection law the Data Controller and Data Processor must, among other duties, ensure the lawfulness to collect or re-use personal data, and the fairness and transparency of the processing. In other words, the individual should have the necessary information to assess and freely decides when his/her personal data is to be processed, […]
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