The ideal privacy software

Since the arrival ofthe General Data Protection Regulation (GDPR), organisations have put theregister of processings in order, written procedures and checklists, ensured transparent information for those involved and made an effort to raise awareness of the major issue of 'privacy' among employees. And now? This may come as a shock: the GDPR is not a checklist that an organisation can tick off. Privacy, and with it the GDPR, is a subject that lives and must live continuously within an organisation.

It’s Tuesday 3th of March 2020 on the second CIPP/E training day. I peek on my cellphone during the coffee break, since it has been vibrating vividly. Breaking news: the first COVID-19 case has been confirmed in Berlin. We finish the course throughout the day. It feels a little strange walking back home, not knowing what to make of it or what changes to expect. Except for those changes probably to be substantial.

Google has agreed to major privacy improvements for its Google Workspace for Education services for schools and universities in the Netherlands. After intense negotiations with representatives of the schools and higher education institutions in the Netherlands, Google has agreed to mitigate the high data protection resulting from the use of Google Workspace for Education. These risks were identified in a DPIA conducted by Privacy Company for two universities.

Almost half of the political parties in the Netherlands used tracking cookies on their own websites, which they used to target potential voters elsewhere on the Internet (microtargeting). With such tracking cookies the parties usually process special personal data. This is only permitted with the explicit consent of those involved. But this is not the case, research by Privacy Company shows.