DATA PROTECTION WEEKLY

European Union Digital Services Act  The final text is expected to be presented to the Council of the European Union's competition working party April 28. European Parliament announced the creation of a taskforce dedicated to the investigation on the Pegasus spyware The European Parliament announced the inaugural meeting of an inquiry committee dedicated to investigating the potential use of...

European Union  EDPS reprimands Frontex for moving to the cloud without proper data protection assessment The EDPS announced on 1 April 2022, that it had reprimanded Frontex for a breach of the Data Protection Regulation (EU) 2018/1725. For the EDPS, Frontex moved to the cloud without assessing the data protection risks and without identifying appropriate mitigating measures or relevant...

European Union EDPB releases statement on EU-US data flows political agreement The EDPB published on 6 April 2022, a statement welcoming the agreement in principle on the Trans-Atlantic Data Privacy Framework between the EU and the U.S. For EDPB Chair Andrea Jelinek, the proposed data flows framework and the commitment of the U.S. highest authorities to establish unprecedented measures is a...

European Union European Commission publishes factsheet on new transatlantic data transfer framework The European Commission released, on 25 March 2022, statement and factsheet on the 'agreement in principle' for a new transatlantic data transfer framework. NOYB issued, on 25 March 2022, a statement following the announcement. In its statement, NOYB noted that it expects the development of a...

European Union EDPB adopts guidelines on Article 60 GDPR, guidelines on dark patterns and a toolbox The EDPB announced, on 15 March 2022, that it had adopted guidelines on article 60 of the GDPR, guidelines on dark patterns in social media platform interfaces, a toolbox on essential data protection safeguards for enforcement cooperation  between the European Economic Area and third country...

European Union   IAB Europe publishes guide to the post third-party cookie era IAB Europe published, on 10 March 2022, a Guide dedicated to the post third-party cookie era, to enable brands, publishers and tech intermediaries to prepare for the impending post-third-party cookie era. The Guide provides a complete deep-dive into the following key themes: the main contributing factors to the...