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Ines K. Radmilovic

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28 January 2024 is Data Protection Day (or Data Privacy Day outside of Europe), which marks the anniversary of the Council of Europe’s Convention 108. Data Privacy Day encourages the global community to think about the importance of respecting privacy, safeguarding data, and enabling trust. In an increasingly connected and digitized world, where data protection, privacy and cybersecurity regulation are rapidly evolving, the work of the global data community is more vital, and more challenging,…

The Hungarian Data Protection and Freedom of Information Agency (the “DPA”) recently released its 2015 annual report, including enforcement statistics. The report shows a significant increase in the number of cases handled by the DPA again in 2015. This trend is expected to continue in 2016, given the DPA’s stated 2016 enforcement priorities, summarized below. It also shows an immediate interest in national BCR approval requests, which have been possible in Hungary only since 1 October…