Cybersecurity is no longer just an IT issue. It is a board-level issue! Because when things go wrong, the question is not only how the attack could have been prevented, but also who was responsible for it.
The Commission nationale de l'informatique et des libertés (CNIL) – the French Data Protection Authority – published guidelines on how the data protection rules should be applied to blockchain technology. Next to possible issues, the CNIL also provides pointers on how blockchains can be built in a privacy compliant manner. This article provides an overview of these pointers with some additions and critical notes.
In this article Vonne Laan argues that giving an “early bird discount” to prompt payers of privacy fines in the Netherlands, would alleviate and facilitate the congested enforcement department of the Dutch Data Protection Authority (the Autoriteit Persoonsgegevens). It’s an opinion piece written for a Dutch newspaper (het Financieel Dagblad).
Eliëtte Vaal wrote a summery of the last report of the Data Protection Authority about data processing by local governments in the Dutch social system here (Dutch only).
Eliëtte Vaal provided contributions to the International Law Office (ILO), inter alia about (i) Dutch copyright contract law and (ii) hyperlinking to infringing content.
In this article Eliëtte Vaal argues that consumer law obligations based on EU distance sale laws are superfluous. It’s an opinion piece written for a Dutch newspaper (het Financieel Dagblad).
