A tegnapi nap kiemelt híre volt, hogy az Egyesült Királyság és az EU kompromisszumra jutott a Brexit-megállapodás kapcsán, amelyet a EU tagállamok vezetői jóvá is hagytak. A labda (immár sokadszor) a brit parlamentnél pattog, amelynek szintén áldását kell adnia a módosított megállapodásra annak…
Quantum supremacy and data protection
It was all over the news a few days ago that Google had reached the quantum supremacy in an experiment, where a quantum processor proved that the figures pumped out by a random number generator were indeed random. This task took 3 minutes 20 seconds (200 seconds) for the quantum processor and…
The interpretation of the right of access in the practice of the Hungarian DPA
The right of access is an important guarantee in the GDPR to ensure the transparency of data processing for data subjects. However, it is an open question to what extent this right can be exercised. In the past months, several interpretations became available, mostly from German data protection…
Can blockchain technology be GDPR-compliant?
Study on the relationship between blockchain technology and the GDPR
The European Parliament published a study that examines whether distributed ledgers can be squared with European data protection law. The study consists three main parts: (i) it discusses blockchain technology and the tensions between the use of such technology and the GDPR, (ii) it explores the…
Will joint processing of data come into fashion?
The ECJ's judgment in the Fashion ID Case
At the end of July, the European Court of Justice (ECJ) ruled in case no. C-40/17 (“Fashion ID Case”), which dealt with the interpretation of the concept of data controller and the issue of joint data processing. The basic question to be clarified was the role of the website operator and Facebook in…
Drones and data protection
There are several legal aspects related to the use of drones, including a number of data protection issues.
Although no comprehensive legislation has been enacted so far in Hungary, the Hungarian Data Protection Authority (Hungarian DPA) has, similarly to other data protection authorities,…
Crazy facts about data protection
Why do we need smart privacy regulations?
The EU celebrates the first anniversary of GDPR-application. GDPR changed the data protection landscape in the EU and it has strong effects outside of the European Union too. Below, you can find some crazy facts about data protection that should be considered in the future when we think further how…
Data processing in the course of providing online services
Important new guidelines became available
Online services became part of our everyday life. The provision of online services, in almost all cases, goes hand in hand with data processing. On the one hand, we provide our data intentionally to the service providers when we decide to use services online but in other cases, data are collected…
GDPR fining policy issued by the Dutch Data Protection Authority
The Dutch Data Protection Authority (Autoriteit Persoonsgegevens) was the first data protection authority in the EU that has published a fining policy detailing the principles for setting administrative fines in specific cases.
The impact of the fining policy issued by the Dutch Data Protection…
E-mail encryption - How to meet GDPR requirements?
One of the biggest challenges in meeting data protection requirements is to translate the general principles and rules into concrete actions and daily routines. How much and what data is needed to achieve a particular purpose? How can we obtain the necessary consent? How can we provide proper…