The Romanian data protection authority (the ANSPDCP) has recently been the subject of worrying developments, and now the authority’s leadership is being decided in a hush-hush manner behind closed doors.
Președinta ANSPDCP a primit un nou mandat în fruntea autorității de protecție a datelor
Dna Ancuța Opre, președinta ANSPDCP în mandatul 2013-2018 a fost ieri numită din nou în fruntea autorității române de protecție a datelor.
[RO] Procedura de investigaţii ANSPDCP explicată
ANSPDCP, autoritatea română de protecţia datelor, a publicat Decizia nr. 161/2018, prin care a aprobat procedura de efectuare a investigaţiilor.
Romanian DPA adopts DPIA List
The Romanian data protection authority (the ANSPDCP) has adopted the final list of cases which require a data protection impact assessment (DPIA).
[RO] Transferul datelor către grupul băncii în Codul de Conduită ARB
Codul stabileşte confidenţialitatea datelor furnizate de clienţi şi obligaţia angajaţilor băncii să protejeze aceste date.
Facebook fined with the maximum amount by the Information Commissioner’s Office
Information Commissioner’s Office has fined Facebook with the maximum amount allowed prior to GDPR (£500,000), after finding “serious breaches of data protection law” between 2007 and 2014. This is related to the previous business model of Facebook that gave app developers access to the personal data not only of the app users, but also their friends (even if they were not using the app), which allowed for the massive data harvesting that lead to the Cambridge Analytica scandal.
You can read the full press release here.
Some other suggested reading is this article – My Cow Game Extracted Your Facebook Data, as well as this short clip explaining how Facebook uses psychological factors to profile users, and how the Cambridge Analytica data harvesting happened.
Romanian law implements the GDPR
The law implementing GDPR in Romania (Law no. 190/2018) has been published and will enter into force on 31 July 2018.