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The Danish Data Protection Agency and other European data protection agencies currently have a strong focus on whether companies’ cookie solutions comply with the rules in the GDPR. It includes e.g. solutions within Google Analytics and IAB’s standard solution for cookies and advertisements, Transparency and Consent Framework (TCF), where there are many indications that Danish companies may prepare for alternative solutions.

It is a great pleasure that Attorney Sebastian Rungby and Attorney Torsten Hylleberg will both take up the roles as partners in Lund Elmer Sandager with retroactive effect from 1 January 2022.

During the summer of 2021, the Danish Data Protection Agency has imposed fines on three public authorities and two private companies in the range of DKK 150,000 – 600,000 for violating the GDPR legislation. The new size of the fines emphasizes the importance of companies ensuring an adequate level of security when processing personal data.

On 4 June 2021, the European Commission issued new Standard Contractual Clauses (“SCC”) for use in the transfer of personal data outside the EU/EEA, which e.g. may be for a (sub) data processor in the United States.

On September 7 2020, the Government held a press conference on COVID-19, in which Minister of Health Magnus Heunicke requested that restaurants and cafés offer their visiting guests the possibility to register their contact information. A request that aims to increase contact tracing as the number of people infected with covid-19 is increasing, but at the same time raises some data protection law issues for you as a restaurateur or café owner.

The Danish Data Protection Agency (In Danish: Datatilsynet) states that companies must avoid deleting personal data if the right for access is requested.

On 26 May 2020, the Parliament passed a new law that allows authorities to intervene to providers of online platforms, who change their terms and conditions without notice or even throw users off the platform without any justification.

The Danish Data Protection Agency has just changed its practice with regard to publishing images on the Internet. In this article, Lund Elmer Sandager takes a closer look at the importance of the changed practice of the Danish Data Protection Agency.

Seen through EU glasses, it has been an eventful weekend. There were elections to the EU Parliament on Sunday and Saturday, May 25 2019, we marked the anniversary of the General Personal Data Regulation (GDPR). We look back on the past year and make recommendations for ¨work with GDPR compliance in future.