Deputies pass GDPR-adapting act
In December of last year, the Chamber of Deputies passed a long-awaited bill on personal data processing, designed to replace the existing Act on Personal Data Protection. Its adoption follows the new rules set out in the EU General Data Protection…
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Users may be responsible for Facebook’s activity
The recent judgement of the Court of Justice of the EU (CJEU) will not please many administrators of ‘fan pages’ hosted on Facebook: in its ruling in case C 210/16 ULD vs. Wirtschaftsakademie, the CJEU concluded that the administrator is in the…
No sanctions for breach of GDPR for ČEZ and non-profits?
A group of deputies headed by Marian Jurečka (KDU-ČSL) has submitted a draft amendment to the Personal Data Protection Act. The deputies have taken on the role of protectors of public institutions and non-profit organisations against the harsh…
Schrems versus Facebook, take two
Maximilian Schrems, an Austrian citizen, has become known in connection with the CJEU’s ruling annulling the Commission’s decision that declared the USA a safe country to transfer personal data from the EU (‘Safe Harbour’). Now the Court of Justice…
EU to liberate non-personal data?
Recently, much attention has been paid to the new EU General Data Protection Regulation (GDPR) that provides for the protection and free movement of personal data. The European Commission has now passed a proposal for a directly applicable…
ERS changed and its further fate questioned
Those of you getting ready to join the ERS regime should pay attention: in the middle of last December, the Constitutional Court cancelled some provisions of the Act on the Electronic Reporting of Sales. This judgement will also affect some who are…
Top ten legal news items for businesses in 2018
What will the upcoming year bring for businesses? Below, we present an outline of the most important legal changes in the area of financial services, social security and personal data protection.
ePrivacy to protect online data
Early this year, the European Commission released the first official draft of its ePrivacy regulation, a special regulation to the General Data Protection Regulation (GDPR). Both should enter into effect already on 25 May 2018. Yet, for ePrivacy,…
New data processing consent required under GDPR?
The new EU General Data Protection Regulation (GDPR) is knocking on our door. Although the new rules are only to be followed from May 2018, due to the complexity of implementation a number of companies have started to prepare for them already. In…
Stricter control over employees’ personal data protection
The legal framework regulating the handling of employees’ personal data is going through significant changes. One of them is the adoption of the EU General Data Protection Regulation (GDPR), substantially changing the rules for the treatment of…