The title of Edward Snowden's book “The Permanent Record”, is reminiscent of a recent case of illegal processing of employees' personal data. It concerns a hefty fine of around EUR 35,3 million imposed a few days ago by the Hamburg Personal Data Protection Authority on a large Swedish, multinational clothing retailer. The company illegally carried out an extensive “record keeping” of the private life of many of its employees...
A plethora of infringements have been uncovered in the field of political communication via spam emails and short text messages (SMS). Compliance with the rules is not strictly adhered to, despite the continuous strengthening of the legal framework for the protection of personal data and the consequent, increased awareness of the citizens. This is inferred from the seven recent decisions published by...
The great challenge of the coronavirus pandemic -COVID19 in international terminology-, which continues to affect humanity as a whole, is bringing about rapid changes in our way of life to date. Established behavior and attitudes of decades changed overnight in the effort to successfully manage the crisis. In the labor sector...
The lecture of A. Koronaios will take place on Saturday, September 5, at 10:30 a.m., on the topic "The GDPR compliance projects".
During the critical period of the coronavirus we are going through, teleworking, i.e. distance working, has become the norm for thousands of companies and public and private sector employees. More and more people are working on a regular basis from their home, using computers, which are often connected...
With the 16-9-2019 "GDPR Shot: Media and personal data" the question was expressed about the completeness of article 28 of Law 4624/2019 with the national measures implementing the GDPR. It is recalled that this article regulates in particular the processing of personal data for journalistic purposes, excluding with the second paragraph...
The number of companies adopting teleworking is constantly increasing, in the context of taking measures to curb the coronavirus. Remote work in turn leads to an increase in the remote processing of personal data. This is a trend that carries special risks for the security of personal data...
"To be, or not to be, that is the question". Existential dilemmas of the Hamlet type in the field of personal data protection are posed by a recent announcement of the Greek supervisory authority (HDPA) for the Data Protection Officers (DPOs). According to the relevant press release of January, the representation of a controller is not allowed...
On December 4, 2019, the President of the Greek Data Protection Authority presented to the Speaker of Parliament the Report of the Authority for the year 2018. This is an important event for our country, but, unfortunately, without being given due importance. This is because the approach...
I return to a revealing report of your newspaper on the violation of personal data legislation in our country by a large public hospital of the capital in the summer of 2019. According to the report, many medical records of the hospital patients were stacked in corridors and stairs, for everyone to see...