EDPS

The Irish Data Protection Commission (DPC) has determined that Meta Ireland infringed Article 46(1) of the GDPR when it “continued to transfer personal data from the EU/EEA to the USA following the delivery of the CJEU’s judgment in Data Protection Commissioner v Facebook Ireland Limited and Maximillian Schrems.” The DPC has given Meta Ireland 6 months to find a solution. This is just enough time to create the possibility of a road forward; a possibility which is contained primarily in the effective implementation of proposed European – U.S. Data Privacy Framework on the part of the U.S. and the EU.

WPF executive director Pam Dixon will be moderating a seminar to be held by the Biometrics Institute in Brussels, Belgium on 17 April on the topic of implications and implementation of the GDPR. The event will be held at the Office of the Spanish National Research Council, 7th Floor, Room 3, Rue du Trône 62,

A data ethics conversation has been growing on a global scale for some time now, but particularly since 2015, when the European Data Protection Supervisor (EDPS) issued an Opinion on the matter and formed a Data Ethics Advisory Group to further consider the issue. Along the way, other countries, such as Canada, have begun formal