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In December 2015, three years after the first draft was proposed, and almost 20 years since the Data Protection Directive was adopted, EU lawmakers came to agreement on the reform of data protection law. The new General Data Protection Regulation (GDPR...

By Helena Marttila-Bridge and Monika Kuschewsky Today, the Article 29 Data Protection Working Party (“Working Party”), a group consisting of representatives from the European data protection authorities, the European Data Protection Supervisor, and...

In 2011 the Dutch government published the "I-Strategy 2012-2015" document; see Trust, Privacy & Security in Dutch Govt "I-Strategy". The I-Strategy describes the Rutte-cabinet coalition agreement on information strategy for the period 2012-2015...

Academics, commentators, students and lawyers, including Google’s Senior Privacy Counsel, gathered at the University of Cambridge on 27 March 2015 at a conference entitled ‘EU Internet Regulation after Google Spain’. The purpose of the conference was...

The new EU General Data Protection Regulation may not be particularly fast-approaching, but it will arrive with full force and the digital industry’s full understanding of its implications is imperative. Concluding a series of pieces on ExchangeWire...