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Litigation

No surprise here – the EU Court confirms again that public authorities’ access to telecom data is strictly limited

Public authorities’ access to electronic communications data has always been and continues to be a hot topic, even (or especially) after the EU Court of Justice declared the so-called Data Retention Directive invalid in 2014. After that, the Court has ruled on several occasions on the retention of and access to electronic communications data, the latest just a few days ago at the beginning of March where the Court answered to an Estonian court’s question whether access to traffic and location data relating to a short period could justify access for fighting crimes that are not “serious” with a hard NO.

9 March 2021

Legislation

A Privacy Law for 25% of the World’s Population: China’s Personal Information Protection Law

China published the Personal Information Protection Law (Draft) ("PIPL") for public consultation on 21 October 2020. This is the first legal framework to address personal information protection in China. One can find many similarities between the Draft and the EU GDPR. However, there are still significant differences between the two. This article highlights the similarities and differences between the Draft and the EU GDPR from both the macroscopic and microscopic viewpoints.

19 February 2021

Can data protection rules affect the assignment of receivables in Bulgaria?

For many years, a common practice in Bulgaria is debtors to submit complains to the Bulgarian DPA for unlawful processing of their personal data due to performed assignement of their debts to a new creditor (cession). As a result a non-consistent practice has been formed of the DPA through the years where quite often the consent of the deptor for the processing of his/her personal data is sought as a condition for the assignement of the debt/ the receivables to a new creditor. However, after GDPR Bulgarian DPA undertaken certain changes in their interpetation on whether consent is required for the processing of personal data of a debtor when a creditor assign/ transfer a debt to a new creditor (e.g. in case of cession).

15 February 2021

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