Cookies can be helpful business tools, but they often toe the data protection line dangerously. As a result of this tendency towards uncertainty, the EU has introduced a new cookie law to protect its users. This new policy will affect any US company that does online business with… ...
What is the ePrivacy Directive? The ePrivacy Directive is a set of rules for data protection and privacy in the European Union (EU). The full official name for it is "Privacy and Electronic Communications Directive 2002/58/EC." It regulates cookie usage, email marketing, data minimization, an...
There is still a quite surprising unawareness of the extent of the forthcoming change in data protection, or data privacy, legislation. This article aims to tell the story from the beginning, and to set out the implications of implementing the European Union (EU) Directive " On the protection...
The General Data Protection Regulation (GDPR) is a European Commission regulation for the protection of data in the European Union. This regulation also regulates the flow of personal data outside the EU. Its main objective is to protect the privacy of citizens of the EU and unify the data r...
The General Data Protection Regulation (GDPR) is a comprehensive data protection law passed by the European Union (EU). Learning Center Data privacy Encryption and privacy Cookies Compliance Glossary theNET Learning Objectives After reading this article you will be able to: Explain the main requiremen...
The General Data Protection Regulation (GDPR) is legislation that updated and unified data privacy laws across the European Union (EU). The GDPR was approved by the European Parliament on April 14, 2016, and went into effect on May 25, 2018. It replaces the EU Data Protection Directive of...
GDPR supersedes Directive 95/36/EC, which is the existing EU regulation on data protection. This directive will be repealed on the same day that GDPR comes into force. Consequently, some firms will have to make big changes in how they gather, store, and use personal data. That’s not to...
As the May 25 deadline looms near, it’s important to know how this can affect your call center should you handle EU customer data. With privacy in mind from the very beginning, the GDPR replaces the bloc’s rather outdated Data Protection Directive. It aims to enhance the data protecti...
The European Court of Justice ruled that databases not protected by the EU Database Directive’s copyright provisions could still be protected by contract law. The court concluded that PR Aviation’s scraping activities violated Ryanair’s terms of service, constituting a breach of contract. ...
The law contains some similarities to the EU General Data Protection Regulation's (GDPR) provisions and the CPRA. It applies to entities that do business in Virginia or sell products and services targeted to Virginia residents and also meet one of the following: Control or process the personal...