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 European Union LIBE Committee calls on Commission to begin infringement proceedings against DPC for GDPR enforcement failures The Irish Council for Civil Liberties announced, on 4 February 2021, that the EU LIBE Committee has prepared a draft motion for resolution, calling the European Commission to begin infringement proceedings against the Irish Data Protection Commission for failing to...

National Authorities  DPA publishes recommendations for data cleansing and record destruction The Belgian DPA released, on 27 January 2021, recommendations for data controllers on data cleansing and the destruction of records. The recommendations aim to aid data controllers in the prevention of non-authorised access to personal data contained within such records and to ensure the privacy of...

The Romanian National Conference on Confidentiality and Data Protection "PR!VACY ROMANIA 2021" organised by CEDPO  member ASCPD is scheduled to begin on Friday, January 29, 2021, at 09.00 * EET: Eastern European Time (UTC+2). The access to the conference is made directly from the event website www.privacyromania.ro  More than 1000 specialists from Romania and abroad will participate in this...

 European Union EDPB announces public consultation on guidelines on data breach notification examples The EDPB announced, on 18 January 2021, that it will launch a public consultation on its Guidelines 01/2021 on Examples regarding Data Breach Notification. The guidelines consider that since the EDPB's Guidelines on Personal Data Breach Notification under Regulation 2016/679 did not address all...

 European Union EDPB updates statement and information note on Brexit The EDPB released, on 13 January 2021, an updated version of its Statement on the End of the Brexit Transition Period and its Information Note on Data Transfers under the GDPR to the United Kingdom after the Transition Period. The EU-UK Trade and Cooperation Agreement, which provisionally came into force on 1 January 2021...

 European Union Commission publishes report on implementation of specific GDPR provisions The European Commission announced, on 6 January 2021, that its Directorate-General for Justice and Consumers had published its Report on the Implementation of Specific Provisions of Regulation (EU) 2016/679. This report aims to present the implementation by EU Member States of Articles 8(1), 9(4), 23(1)(c)...