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National Authorities CNPD publishes guidelines on cookies The CNPD published, on 26 October 2021, guidelines on cookies and other trackers. These guidelines aim to help operators of websites or applications to comply with the currently applicable rules (as they emerge from legislation and case law). They draw the distinction between essential cookies and non-essential cookies and introduce...

European Union EDPB adopts Guidelines on Restrictions of data subject rights under Article 23 of the GDPR The EDPB published, on 19 October 2021, the final version of the Guidelines 10/2020 on Restrictions under Article 23 GDPR, adopted on 13 October 2021. The Guidelines aim to recall the conditions surrounding the use of such restrictions by EU Member States or the EU legislator in light of the...

European Union NOYB publishes DPC’s draft decision against Facebook and calls for sanctions against 'consent bypass' NOYB published, on 13 October 2021, the Irish DPC draft decision proposing a fine of between €28 million and €36 million against Facebook in relation to transparency failures regarding the processing of user data under the contractual legal basis provided under Article 6(1)(b) of...

During AFCDP’s General Assembly 2021, Pascale Gelly, Vice-President of AFCDP and Cecilia Álvarez Rigaudias, in charge of the international affairs of APEP had the opportunity to talk about CEDPO’s main mission and related recent activities in order to promote the vision of the DPO to achieve reasonable, practicable, balanced and effective data protection throughout the European Union. Although...

National Authorities LfDI Baden-Württemberg launches a tool for creating data protection notices The Baden-Württemberg data protection authority announced, on 5 october 2021, that it had launched LfDI-Tool DS-GVO.clever to help small companies create their data protection notices quickly and easily. The LfDI-Tool DS-GVO.clever provides concrete and effective help to organisations to create data...

European Union EDPB launches taskforce to address NOYB cookie complaints The EDPB announced, on 27 September 2021, that it had set up a taskforce to coordinate the response to complaints concerning cookie banners filed by NOYB. The taskforce had been established in accordance with Article 70(1)(u) of the GDPR and aims to promote cooperation, information sharing, and best practices between the...