On 27 October 2022, the Digital Services Act (DSA) was published in the EU Official Journal as Regulation (EU) 2022/2065, with the aim to fully harmonize the rules on the safety of online services and the dissemination of illegal content online. The Digital Services Act will require online intermediaries to amend their terms of service, to better handle complaints, and to increase their transparency, especially with respect to advertising.
(more…)EU Digital Services Act: Fundamental Changes for Online Intermediaries?
November 5th, 2022 | Posted by in Competition | eCommerce | Europe | internet | Legislation - (0 Comments)🇫🇷 Flottes connectees, reglementation et experiences reussies
October 27th, 2022 | Posted by in Conference | Connected Cars | France | Privacy - (0 Comments)Très heureux d’avoir accueilli ce matin en nos locaux GEOTAB pour la conférence « Flottes connectées, réglementation et expériences réussies », modérée par François Denis, Directeur Général France GEOTAB.
Claude-Etienne Armingaud, CIPP/E, associé Protection des données, nous a exposé les enjeux du droit des données à caractère personnel en lien avec les véhicules connectés.
Pascal Six, Business Development Manager, a retracé la manière dont GEOTAB a développé et continue d’adapter son offre, dans le respect des lois applicables en matière de protection des données à caractère personnel.
Pour terminer, Bertrand MATHIEU Directeur des Opérations VAC / Hardouin Loc, nous a fait part de son expérience client réussie avec GEOTAB.
Merci aux intervenants et participants !
UK Data Protection: Beware of the Consequences of Unsolicited Marketing Emails
October 12th, 2022 | Posted by in English | Europe | Marketing | Privacy - (0 Comments)Sending unsolicited marketing emails could prove costly to UK organisations, as bike and car accessory retailer Halfords have recently discovered.
Last month, Halfords were handed a fine of £30,000 by the Information Commissioner’s Office (ICO) for sending around half a million unsolicited marketing email messages to customers who had not previously opted-in to marketing (see here).
The fine was issued under the Privacy and Electronic Communications Regulations (PECR), which gives people specific privacy rights in relation to electronic communications and restricts how unsolicited direct marketing is carried out.
An investigation carried out by the ICO found that the retailer broke the laws governing electronic communications by sending out emails relating to a government voucher scheme that gave people £50 off the cost of repairing a bike at any participating store or mechanic in England. The email not only pointed customers to the government website, it also invited them to book a bike assessment and to redeem their voucher at their chosen Halfords store. The ICO concluded that the insinuation of Halfords having a direct connection with the government scheme encouraged its customers to redeem the voucher in its stores and that Halfords was therefore advertising its own services.
PECR prevents organisations from sending emails or messages to people unless they have consented to it or they are an existing customer who has bought similar products or services in the past (known as the “soft opt-in” rule).
Halfords argued that the email constituted a service message and should not be categorised as direct marketing, but the ICO maintained that the email did constitute direct marketing because it satisfied the definition of such under Paragraph 35 of the ICO’s Direct Marketing Guidance (see here). In addition, the ICO concluded that the soft opt-in rule could not apply because the targeted customers had already opted out.
Andy Curry, Head of Investigations at the ICO said: “This [decision] sends a message to similar organisations to review their electronic marketing operations, and that we will take necessary action if they break the law.”
First publication: K&L Gates Cyber Law Watch in collaboration with Keisha Phippen
🇺🇸 AntiCor France, Surmontez les defis du RGPD et des lois sur la protection de la vie privee dans le contexte de l’anti-corruption
October 10th, 2022 | Posted by in Conference | Data Transfer | Europe | France | Privacy - (0 Comments)
Claude-Etienne, Armingaud, Associé
K&L Gates
Stéphane Bonifassi, Associé fondateur
Bonifassi Avocats
Les options d’examen et d’analyse assistées par la technologie sont de plus en plus utilisées dans les enquêtes internes et externes, notamment par les multinationales. L’utilisation de l’analyse des données peut apporter efficacité, précision et réduction des coûts. Cependant, le croisement entre le droit et la technologie soulève des préoccupations uniques en matière de protection de la vie privée et d’autres questions juridiques lors des enquêtes internes et externes : cette session permettra de vous mettre à niveau. Les sujets de discussion incluront :
- Étudier la manière dont l’analyse des données et la découverte électronique peuvent aider les enquêtes multinationales.
- Comprendre vos obligations selon la loi Schrems II, le RGPD et d’autres législations.
- Apprendre les meilleures pratiques pour se conformer à ces obligations lors des enquêtes internes ou externes, de la diligence raisonnable et de la dénonciation des dysfonctionnements.
- Comparer et intégrer des lignes directrices de la CNIL et du Conseil européen de la protection des données, entre autres.
- Déterminer l’impact de la proposition de cadre transatlantique pour la protection des données sur votre pratique quotidienne.
UK: Government Publishes New Proposed Data Protection Law
July 27th, 2022 | Posted by in English | Europe | Legislation | Privacy - (0 Comments)The UK Government has finally published its highly anticipated Data Protection and Digital Information Bill (the Bill), marking the first significant post-Brexit change to the UK’s data protection regime. Following Brexit, the UK continued following the EU General Data Protection Regulation, incorporated into UK law as the UK GDPR, and the UK implementation of the EU ePrivacy Directive, the Privacy and Electronic Communications Regulations 2003 (PECR), also remained in force.
The Bill is only at the start of the legislative process, and it remains to be seen how it will develop if it is amended during its passage through Parliament, but early indications are that it represents more of an evolution than a revolution in the UK regime. That will come as a relief to businesses that transfer personal data from the EU to the UK, because it reduces the risk that the EU might rescind the UK’s adequacy status.
For a start, the Bill actually preserves the UK GDPR, its enabling legislation the Data Protection Act 2018, and the PECR, because it is drafted as an amending act rather than a completely new legislative instrument. This does not contribute to user-friendliness, as interpreting UK data protection requirements will require a great deal of cross-referencing across texts.
The more eye-catching proposed changes in the Bill include:
- The inclusion of a list of “legitimate interests” that will automatically qualify as being covered by the lawful basis in UK GDPR Article 6(e).
- Some limitations on data subject access requests, such as the possibility of refusing “vexatious or excessive” requests.
- More exemptions from the requirement to obtain consent to cookies.
- Much higher fees for breach of PECR.
The Bill will now progress through various Parliamentary stages over the coming months in order to become law.
First Publication: K&L Gates Cyber Law Watch in collaboration with Noirin McFadden & Keisha Phippen
France: New Requirements Concerning the Sale of Digital Goods
July 21st, 2022 | Posted by in eCommerce | France | internet | IT | Legislation - (0 Comments)On 29 June 2022, Decree n° 2022-946 (the “Decree”) supplemented the regulatory framework resulting from the Ordinance n° 2021-1247 of 29 September 2021 on the legal warranty of conformity for goods, digital content and digital services (the “Ordinance”). Stakeholders have under 1 October 2022 to implement the following measures, aiming at protecting consumers of digital goods.
1. General information about the Ordinance
Implementing two 2019 European directives on certain aspects of contracts for the supply of digital content and digital services and contracts for the sale of goods (respectively Directives (EU) 2019/770 and 2019/771 dated 20 May 2019), the Ordinance aimed to foster the safety of consumers when purchasing both physical and digital goods and, to a lesser extent, to reduce the environmental impact of digital goods.
This Ordinance amended the French Consumer Code in depth, notably by expanding the legal warranty of conformity, which now covers digital products and services but is also applicable to both B2C as well as B2B contracts, when the latter are executed between professionals and non-professionals (i.e. legal entities acting outside of their direct professional activities).
(more…)GDPR: The Importance of Managing DSARs
June 22nd, 2022 | Posted by in France | Privacy - (0 Comments)Individuals having difficulties in obtaining responses to their personal data subject access requests (DSAR) from French telephone operator Free Mobile filed several complaints before the Frenchdata protection authority (CNIL). These requests related to accessing their personal data and objecting to receiving direct marketing messages by electronic means. After its investigations, the CNIL imposed a fine of €300,000 against Free Mobile on 28 December 2021.
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