In a new decision, the Icelandic Data Protection Authority has ruled that a school in Reykjavík may not use a US cloud provider: “[..] all processing in the Seesaw educational system should be seized and students' data deleted after being retrieved, if applicable, to be stored within each school. ” The order comes on top of all the controversy over shipments to the US […]
Summary When you need to establish information and cyber security, you must start by assessing how much security you need and how expensive it will be to achieve in relation to your maturity. For work, you can be inspired by a well-known standard (ISO270XX, NIST SP 800-XXX, CIS18 or similar). First to […]
As a knowledge worker, you are probably used to working from home from time to time. But probably not all days of the week. Here after a week, you have probably - like us - found out that it requires something of us that we may not be used to to the same extent. But for many, it gives […]
Morten Schaumann
The number of reports of breaches of the GDPR is steadily rising. We can now state that more than 5.000 reports in DK have taken place in the first year. If we look at 2018 alone, there were 3.100 reports. Far below the 15.400 in the Netherlands, but still a lot. How do you actually handle a request for insight? Those who now have […]
For consideration: When sending targeted advertisements through Facebook, you must comply with section 3 of the Marketing Act (traders must demonstrate good marketing practice, taking into account consumers, traders and the public interest). That's what the Consumer Ombudsman says. If you still violate the rules, then Facebook must make you aware of it in accordance with the data protection rules? This may be the consequence of the following regulatory conditions […]
Brexit means Brexit. And out they came. Finally. So now we dare to write a little about what Brexit means in relation to the data protection rules. The agreement between the EU and the United Kingdom / UK states that 2020 is a transitional period in which EU rules will continue to apply in the UK. Thus see Articles 126 - 127: Article 126: There is […]
The match ended in a draw: Understandable frustrations were met by good answers. In addition to students not having to be cut out of pictures when they change schools, we were clarified once again that consent is always the worst possible legal basis. Use something else - anything else, just use something else. For example, the exercise of authority. Public authorities should simply […]
UNITAS answers the most common questions here Datatilsynets standard contract provisions as well as highlighting a number of changes. The Standard Contractual Clauses replace the Data Processor Agreement Template The Standard Contractual Clauses are a revised version of Datatilsynets data processor agreement template and is hereinafter referred to as the Provisions. Overall, it must be agreed that the Provisions are made mandatory in their full extent if you want to achieve increased security [...]
