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Year: 2016

Some end-of-the-year good news: People genuinely care about their privacy
Data retention, only possible under strict necessity: targeted retention and pre-authorised access to retained data
EU Commission’s leaked plan for the data economy: new rules for IoT liability and sharing “non-personal data”
A million dollar question, literally: Can DPAs fine a controller directly on the basis of the GDPR, or do they need to wait for national laws?
What’s new in research: Georgetown Law Technology Review, human rights and encryption, and data protection proof free-trade agreements (open access)
Greek judges asked the CJEU if they should dismiss evidence gathered under the national law that transposed the invalidated Data Retention Directive
What’s new in research: full-access papers on machine learning with personal data, the ethics of Big Data as a public good
Even if post Brexit-UK adopts the GDPR, it will be left without its “heart”
CNIL’s public consultation on the GDPR: what’s in store for Data Protection Impact Assessments and certification mechanisms? (Part II)
CNIL just published the results of their GDPR public consultation: what’s in store for DPOs and data portability? (Part I)