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Legislation

Hungary is prepared to introduce a new act which would further digitize the services provided by the state to its citizens

The new Hungarian Digital Citizenship Act would make communication with public administration, as well as management of official documents easier and more user-friendly. The new Act would also enable consent management in respect of electronic collection and use of personal data and help governmental and non-governmental actors access more data necessary for the provision and development of their services.

5 January 2024

Litigation

Constitutional Court: The Criteria for Access to Traffic Data Too Loose

Slovenia’s Constitutional Court found the provisions of the Criminal Procedure Act (CPA) enabling the prosecution (police) to access and seize traffic data (data about the circumstances of a communication) to be disproportionate and therefore in violation of the constitutionally guaranteed freedom to communication privacy. The Court set a one-year period in which the Parliament is to amend the CPA accordingly.

12 December 2023

Litigation

Finding the balance between fighting crime and privacy: an Update to the use of Metadata in Criminal Prosecution

On October 13, 2023, the Portuguese Parliament approved an updated version of Law No. 32/2008, which had been declared unconstitutional in April 2022. The community is now waiting for a new preventive judgement of constitutionality on the use of communications metadata in criminal investigation. This Article offers an overview of key modifications and attempts to provide some insight into the content of the impending decision

7 December 2023

Enforcement & finesData subject rights

Insurance company fined SEK 35 million for security failures and putting data subjects’ data at risk.

The Swedish Authority for Privacy Protection issued an administrative fine of SEK 35 million (3MEUR+) against the insurance company Trygg-Hansa due to severe security flaws that enabled unauthorized access to information via the internet and put 650 000 customers’ data at risk for a period of over two years . The case also provides guidance on IMY’s view for calculating the amount of fines in large groups of companies with autonomous business areas and separate IT systems.

6 December 2023

AI & automationLitigation

AUSTRIA: Is legal advice by software solutions and/or AI permitted in Austria?

In its judgment 4 Ob 77/23m from 27th June 2023 the Austrian Supreme Court, among other things, ruled that the provision of recommendations for action by software solutions and/or AI to lawyers in a legal advisory or automated manner is permissible and that the correspondence between lawyer and client may also take place entirely via a software platform as long as the confidentiality of the data is maintained. Another important finding is that it - according to the Supreme Court - is permissible to take success rates into account when selecting lawyers for clients. However, as an intermediary, the software platform may not demand a percentage of the lawyer's fee as a referral fee.

30 November 2023

AI & automation

ChaptGPT: the Italian Data Protection Authority leads the way and imposes GDPR compliance.

The Italian Data Protection Authority recently gained international attention for being the first to address the privacy risks of generative artificial intelligence, ordering the temporary restriction of the Italians’ data processing to OpenAI because of the violation of several GDPR rules. With the implementation of several measures to improve the compliance of this AI system with the GDPR, ChatGPT is back online again in Italy.

28 November 2023

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