Blog: EU Privacy Laws
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Informal GDPR Self-Audit for Online Businesses
Is your business GDPR-compliant? GDPR regulations are sweeping and complicated, and there is little guidance provided by the law itself for what you need to do. Consider the fact that every business comes with different data processing needs and requirements and you might find yourself overwhelmed and lost with this European...
GDPR Cookies Policy
The EU General Data Protection Regulation (GDPR) came into full force in May of 2018. Businesses have been scrambling to comply - rewriting their Privacy Policies, deleting all traces of unnecessary personal data, and emailing their existing customers to refresh marketing consent. Perhaps the most noticeable sign of privacy practices...
8 User Rights Under the GDPR
The EU Commission describes the General Data Protection Regulation (GDPR) as: "an essential step to strengthening citizens' fundamental rights in the digital age [which] provides tools for gaining control of one's personal data." The GDPR achieves this by setting out eight rights that all EU citizens have when it comes to...
6 Privacy Principles of the GDPR
The General Data Protection Regulation (GDPR) sets a new standard for data privacy. Under the GDPR, anyone wishing to process the personal data of European Union (EU) citizens must abide by a clear set of rules, underpinned by six privacy principles. These fundamentally important precepts should be at the center...
GDPR and Log Data
The EU's General Data Protection Regulation (GDPR) gives strict rules about what you can and can't do with the personal data you collect. This can include something as common and basic as using a web server to collect log data. Let's take a look at what the GDPR says when it...
3 Part Test for Legitimate Interests Under the GDPR
If you're choosing to rely on legitimate interests as your lawful basis for processing personal data, it's important you can demonstrate that you've done some background work in determining that this is the right lawful basis for your purposes. This is called a Legitimate Interests Assessment. The General Data Protection Regulation...