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Five years GDPR
Five years GDPR

The European Union's General Data Protection Regulation is exhausting, but a success story. The European Commission should use the fifth anniversary of the GDPR to think carefully about "Privacy Shield 2.0". The GDPR celebrates its fifth anniversary. The European General Data Protection Regulation has been in force since May 25, 2020. Even if it cost those responsible a lot of nerves when it was introduced, it can still be considered a success story. For example, it has had an extremely positive effect: namely, it has raised general awareness of the problem of data protection. This was not least ensured by the many headlines about the hefty fines imposed due to…

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Record fines to be expected from DSGVO / GDPR
Record fines to be expected from DSGVO / GDPR

The EU Commission has further modernized the rules for the data economy. The record fines from the GDPR over the past ten months reveal that companies are already overwhelmed when it comes to complying with existing rules. The task becomes more difficult as new regulations are added and the amount of data grows. It's time for companies to fundamentally rethink their data management to finally regain control and contain compliance risks. GDPR: Already a fine of 1,6 billion euros Around 1,6 billion euros, this sums up all the fines that have been levied against…

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Political agreement on EU-US data protection seems worthless
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Data security expert Detlef Schmuck from TeamDrive: “Political agreement on EU-US data protection is worthless. It is hard to imagine that the USA will submit to the data protection dictates of the EU.” As early as June 2020, the ECJ declared the transatlantic data protection agreement Privacy Shield invalid. "The so-called political agreement on data protection between the European Union and the USA is currently not worth a damn," says data security expert Detlef Schmuck. The President of the EU Commission Ursula von der Leyen and US President Joe Biden recently surprised with such an announcement. "The decision of the European...

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EU & US “Privacy Shield” agreement invalid
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The EU & US “Privacy Shield” agreement has been declared invalid – is it time to emancipate yourself from the US? A comment from Uniscon. On July 12, 2016, the transatlantic data protection agreement between the USA and the EU came into force and was intended to ensure that personal data of European citizens is adequately protected, even if it is transmitted to the USA or stored on cloud storage there. On January 25, 2017, Donald Trump again curtailed the rights of all non-US citizens via a decree and thus secured the US secret services unrestricted…

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