In a rapidly evolving digital landscape, the EU countries are taking a significant step towards shaping a fair and innovative data-driven economy with the introduction of the Data Act. The proposed legislation, a key component of the 2030 digital objectives, aims to redefine how data is accessed, used, and shared...
The Finnish Transport and Communications Agency, Traficom, has published new cookie guidelines for both website users (in Finnish) and service providers (in Finnish) in September 2021. The guidelines also apply to other tracking technologies similar to cookies, such as tracking pixels and cookies stored through mobile applications. The aim of the guidelines is, in...
Artificial Intelligence is considered to be the 5th Industrial Revolution and AI is changing permanently both how people and companies operate and interact. Computer vision and speech recognition are areas within AI that require, in addition to the algorithms, a large amount of training data such as images and recorded speech....
Data protection authorities have issued more detailed guidelines on the processing of personal data in order to prevent the spread of the coronavirus pandemic. According to the office of the Data Protection Ombudsman personal data may be processed in order to prevent the coronavirus, as long as the processing is...
The Data Protection Impact Assessment (DPIA) is one of the new obligations related to the processing of personal data under the General Data Protection Regulation (GDPR). The DPIA is a type of self-assessment tool to manage risks related to the processing of personal data. The purpose is to identify and...
