Current issues
- European Data Protection Board - Sixteenth Plenary session
- Deputy Data Protection Ombudsman reprimands Finnkino and orders the company to change its personal data processing practices
- European Data Protection Board - Fifteenth Plenary session: Privacy Shield Review, Guidelines on Territorial Scope, Guidelines on Data Protection by Design & Default, Art. 64 Opinion on Exxon Mobil BCRs, Response letter to LIBE, Additional Protocol Budapest Convention
- European Data Protection Board: Guidelines on the processing for online services based on contracts, Equinix BCRs and Passenger Name Records (PNR)
- The Office of the Data Protection Ombudsman is opening a new helpline for controllers and Data Protection Officers
- Our telephone guidance service is closed from July 22 to August 4
- European Data Protection Board - Twelfth Plenary session: Guidelines on Video Surveillance, Implications of the US CLOUD Act, Opinion on SCCs for processors, Opinion on Accreditation Criteria for monitoring bodies of Codes of Conduct
- Robots cannot make telephone sales calls without consumer’s consent
- European Data Protection Board - Eleventh Plenary session: Guidelines on Codes of Conduct, annex to the Guidelines on Accreditation, annex to the Guidelines on Certification
- The Office of the Data Protection Ombudsman's Annual Report 2018: case numbers multiplied by 2.5, awareness of data protection rights growing
- European Data Protection Board - Tenth Plenary session: Election of a new Deputy Chair, response to MEP In‘t Veld, third annual Privacy Shield Review
- Anu Talus and Jari Råman appointed Deputy Data Protection Ombudsmen
- Kimmo Hakonen appointed as Intelligence Ombudsman
- European Data Protection Board - Ninth Plenary session: Guidelines on the processing of personal data in the context of information society services
- The Data Protection Ombudsman ordered Svea Ekonomi to correct its practices in the processing of personal data
- European Data Protection Board - Eighth Plenary session: Interplay ePrivacy Directive and GDPR, statement on ePrivacy Regulation, DPIA Lists, Statement on Elections
- 2700 personal data breaches have already been reported to the Office of the Data Protection Ombudsman
- Open public consultation on guidelines on codes of conduct has started
- European Data Protection Board - Seventh Plenary session: EDPB 2019/2020 Work program, opinion on the draft AA in the field of financial markets supervision, Brexit
- European Data Protection Board has published Information Note on data transfers in the event of a no-deal Brexit
- European Data Protection Board - Sixth Plenary session: Privacy Shield, Brexit, clinical trials Q&A
- Our telephone guidance service is closed from December 24 to January 2
- European Data Protection Board - Fifth Plenary session: EU-Japan draft adequacy decision, DPIA lists and guidelines on accreditation
- Exceptions on opening times of the telephone service 28.–29.8.
- Our telephone guidance service is closed from July 23 to August 1
- New number for the telephone service on 4 June
- Application of new data protection legislation beings tomorrow
- Renewed website for the Office of the Data Protection Ombudsman