GDPR Enforcement: The Real Risks of Non-Compliance
Whereas public supervisory authorities granted an informal grace period to implement the new provisions of the EU General Data Protection Regulation (GDPR) and allocated many resources to awareness-raising campaigns in 2018, their focus clearly shifted towards enforcement in 2019. The risk of...
How the GDPR Affects Companies Outside the EU
The EU General Data Protection Regulation (GDPR), a major privacy law introduced by the European Union in May 2018, not only shook up the business of data-driven digital service providers but keeps affecting companies of any size and any industry all over the world. Many executives, IT managers and...
14.5mio. Euro: Highest GDPR Fine in Germany
A German real estate company has been fined 14.5 million Euro for infringing the EU General Data Protection Regulation (GDPR) by the data protection authority of Berlin, who publicly reported on this case in a press release on 5 November 2019. It constitutes the highest fine that has been issued in...
Customer Data: GDPR Compliance in Contractual Relationships
Every processing of personal data requires a legal basis such as consent, legitimate interests or legal obligations. In October 2019, the European Data Protection Board (“EDPB”), an advisory body that consists of the data protection supervisory authorities in the EU, issued guidelines for public...
European Court of Justice: Ad Cookies Require Opt-in Consent
In the past months, European data protection supervisory authorities were pushing for opt-in consent as the standard model for using cookies that are not strictly technically necessary for the provision of a website, such as for purposes of ad retargeting, cross-website or cross-device tracking and...
GDPR Enforcement: Consumers Claiming Compensation
Non-compliance with the EU General Data Protection Regulation (GDPR) may lead to severe liability risks for companies inside and outside the European Union, stemming from claims by consumers, claims by competitors or business partners such as service providers and business customers, and from...
GDPR Updates for non-EU companies
Are you compliant with the GDPR?
Under Art. 27 of the GDPR, many non-EU companies must appoint an EU GDPR Privacy Representative. To find out now if your company is subject to this obligation
Who is EU-REP.Global?
We are data protection service provider based in Germany, focused on compliance services under the EU General Data Protection Regulation. If you want to know more,
