By Sam Tyfield, Vedder Price. Back in 2009, the EU issued a Recommendation (which has no binding legal effect) on the use and application of RFIDs (which, for our purposes, means ID/swipe/access cards). The EU has just issued a review of the implementation of the Recommendation EU-wide and has found take-up by EU member States
By Bird & Bird LLP This is an update from Bird & Bird on the progress of the EU Data Protection Regulation. The original document can be found here: EU Data Protection Regulation: one step forward After months of discussion, the LIBE Committee of the European Parliament voted on compromise amendments to the draft, General Data
Is data protection soon to become the biggest compliance hurdle facing the back office? In an effort to improve the protection offered to consumers, and to harmonise data practices, the EU is currently in the process of passing two pieces of legislation: the Cybercrime Directive and the General Data Protection Regulation (GDPR). Few people have