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The GPA Reference Panel welcomes applications until 19 February 2021. What is the Global Privacy Assembly? Established in 1979, the GPA is the international forum of data protection and privacy authorities which provides leadership at the international level by connecting...

Actuellement, l’UE connaît une crise sanitaire exceptionnelle liée au coronavirus. Dans ce contexte, la CNPD donne des recommandations en matière de collecte de données aux acteurs privés et publics qui sont confrontés à des défis de plus en plus complexes dans leur fonctionnement quotidien.

EDPB adopts Guidelines on examples regarding data breach notification The EDPB adopted guidelines on examples regarding data breach notification. These guidelines complement the WP 29 guidance on data breach notification by introducing more practice orientated guidance and recommendations. They aim...

Following the trade and cooperation agreement between the United Kingdom and the European Commission, published on 25 December 2020, the CNPD updated its guidance on Brexit. This guidance aims to help companies, public bodies and Luxembourg associations that are transferring...

Merry Christmas and a Happy New Year 2021

The EDPB adopted its Strategy 2021-2023 On December 15th, the EDPB met for its 43rd plenary session.

Publication of the annual report 2019 2019 was the first full year that the CNPD worked under the General Data Protection Regulation[

Over the last weeks the CNPD together with the data protection authorities of the EU member states have elaborated within the European Data Protection Board (EDPB) recommendations on measures that supplement transfer tools to ensure compliance with GDPR.

39th Plenary Session of the EDPB

The Board adopted Guidelines on the concepts of controller and processor in the GDPR and Guidelines on the targeting of social media users.

38th Plenary Session of the EDPB

The Luxembourg Data Protection Authority (CNPD) welcomes the judgement from the Court of Justice of the European Union (CJEU) in the case Data Protection Commissioner v Facebook Ireland and Maximillian Schrems (Schrems II), rendered on July 16, 2020.

The EDPB has published a new register containing decisions taken by national supervisory authorities following the One-Stop-Shop cooperation procedure (Art. 60 GDPR) on its website.

Today, just over two years after its entry into application, the European Commission published an evaluation report on the General Data Protection Regulation (GDPR).

From Monday, 8 June 2020, the offices of the National Commission for Data Protection (CNPD) are transferred to the Naos building in Belval.

During its 23rd plenary session, the EDPB adopted guidelines on the processing of health data for research purposes in the context of the COVID-19 outbreak and guidelines on geolocation and other tracing tools in the context of the COVID-19 outbreak.

Wednesday, 15 April, 2020 - Following a request for consultation from the European Commission, the European Data Protection Board adopted a letter concerning the European Commission's draft Guidance on apps supporting the fight against the COVID-19 pandemic.

Alessandra Pierucci, Chair of the Committee of Convention 108 and Jean-Philippe Walter, Data Protection Commissioner of the Council of Europe insist on the need for personal data to be protected even in the current situation and in the various areas where the measures taken to fight the pandemic and maintain business and education activities can put them at risk.

On March 19th, the European Data Protection Board adopted a formal statement on the processing of personal data in the context of the COVID-19 outbreak via written procedure.