By Press Association 2021
Facebook on a phone
A mass legal action has been launched on behalf of at least one million UK Facebook users over claims that the social media giant failed to protect their personal data.
The representative claim has been filed with the High Court in London and alleges that Facebook allowed a third-party app to access the personal information of users without their knowledge or consent between November 2013 and May 2015.
It is claimed the social network’s settings permitted the app, called This Is Your Digital Life, to harvest the personal information of not only the users of the app, but also their Facebook friends.
February 1, 2021
For the third consecutive year, following the publication of Gibson Dunn’s ninth annual U.S. Cybersecurity and Data Privacy Outlook and Review on Data Privacy Day, we offer this separate International Outlook and Review.
Like many recent years, 2020 saw significant developments in the evolution of the data protection and cybersecurity landscape in the European Union (“
EU”):
CJEU” or “
Court”) struck down as legally invalid the EU-U.S. Privacy Shield, on which some companies relied to transfer personal data from the EU to the U.S. While companies are turning to other frameworks to transfer personal data, such as Standard Contract Clauses (“
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2020 was a year we will never forget. In the world of data
protection, 2020 was perhaps the most turbulent year since the
entry into force of the EU General Data Protection Regulation
(
GDPR) in 2018. Ahead of the Council of
Europe s annual Data Protection Day on 28 January 2021, we
unpack the key data protection stories of 2020 and look ahead to
what 2021 has in store.
2020 Round-Up
March 2020: COVID-19 Raises Data Protection & Cybersecurity
Issues
COVID-19 has required businesses to adapt to remote working
environments and introduce new procedures to ensure customers and
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1 Legal and enforcement framework
1.1 Which legislative and regulatory provisions govern data privacy in your jurisdiction?
Since 25 May 2018, the EU General Data Protection Regulation (2016/679) (GDPR) is the main legal framework for data protection in all countries within the European Economic Area, which includes EU member states, Iceland, Norway and Lichtenstein.
In Ireland, the national law that gives further effect to the GDPR is the Data Protection Act 2018 (DPA 2018), which entered into force on the same day as the GDPR. The DPA 2018, in addition, transposed the EU Law Enforcement Directive (2016/680) (LED) into Irish law and provided for the necessary amendments to the previous data protection framework