The draft act regarding the implementation of the GDPR in Austria is now available at the website of the Austrian Parliament. The draft act was published on May 12, 2017. An interesting change in Austria that in the current Austrian regime, not only natural persons, but also legal entities are…

Obviously, in the past period, the GDPR (the new EU Data Protection Regulation) was the focus of data protection news. However, in the shadow of the GDPR, a draft e-Privacy Regulation was also issued in January 2017, which, if adopted, would replace Directive no. 2002/58/EC concerning the processing…

Several supervisory authorities have started to issue step plans to help data controllers in the preparation for the application of the EU General Data Protection Regulation (GDPR). In April, the Dutch Authority (Autoriteit Persoonsgegevens) issued its step plan consisting of 10…

The official guidelines for the application of the EU Uniform Data Protection Regulation (Regulation 2016/679, "Regulation" or "GDPR") have been launched to help interpret the rules of the Regulation. In addition to the numerous published publications, blog posts and opinions, the official positions…

Almost half of the preparation period available ahead of the application of the General Data Protection Regulation has already passed. Regulation (EC) No 2016/679 on the protection of natural persons with regard to the processing of personal data and on the free movement of such data, and repealing…