07 Dec, 2023 Spain – Data regulator's new approach to the use of biometric data for daily employee work hours record By Ceyhun Pehlivan Elena Valín The Spanish Data Protection Agency (AEPD) has recently issued guidelines on the use of biometric systems for daily employee work hours...
26 May, 2023 Spain sets out hefty fines under the EU Data Governance Act and amends its data protection laws By Ceyhun Pehlivan Elena Valín Spain has recently passed a law (Law 11/2023) that amends both the E-Commerce Act and the Data Protection Act to implement the provisions...
12 May, 2023 The Spanish AEPD issues record 40% of all GDPR fines across the EEA in 2022 By Ceyhun Pehlivan Elena Valín The Spanish Data Protection Agency (AEPD) has recently published its FY22 report. The report shows that AEPD has imposed a skyrocketing...
01 Mar, 2023 HK data priorities for 2023 – Long awaited updates to Hong Kong’s privacy laws still in the pipeline By Eunice Lee Albert Yuen Last week we were given some insight into the work of the Office of the Privacy Commissioner (PCPD) in the past year and its strategic...
15 Jul, 2022 China to finalise a key missing piece in its data protection puzzle By Alex Roberts Tiantian Ke For people who care about data protection laws in China, this summer has been way too exciting and even a bit fatiguing. What’s more, the...
08 Jul, 2022 China’s data export assessment rules released By Alex Roberts Tiantian Ke China’s cyber regulator – the Cyberspace Administration of China (CAC) – yesterday released the final form of the Measures for the...
20 Dec, 2021 Data and privacy in EU merger control: New ground rules By Lodewick Prompers Florian Jonniaux No less than seven out of world’s ten most valuable companies have data (and privacy) at the heart of their business model. Competition...