Mastodawn

⚖️ The #RightOfAccess allows you to find out what information a company has stored about you, why it has stored it and how it uses it. ⚠️ But requesting access to your data could soon be deemed #abusive – at least if the EU Commission's #DigitalOmnibus passes.

👤 featuring data protection lawyer Lisa Steinfeld Leiser

Glyn Moody May 8, 2025

Civil Society Coalition Calls on European Ombudsman to Defend #Transparency and the #RightofAccess to EU Documents - https://www.access-info.org/es/2025-05-08/civil-society-coalition-calls-on-european-ombudsman-to-defend-transparency-and-the-right-of-access-to-eu-documents/

Civil Society Coalition Calls on European Ombudsman to Defend Transparency and the Right of Access to EU Documents

08 May 2025 - Access Info Europe, alongside a coalition of transparency and accountability organisations, has written to newly elected European Ombudsman Ms. Anjinho urging action to address the “systematic erosion of transparency standards and practices within the EU institutions.” In a joint letter, the coalition congratulated Ms. Anjinho on her election

Access Info Europe

Research ICT Africa Dec 11, 2023

Our research continues to show that access to devices is often the main barrier to Internet access in Africa. As the rest of the world talks of #generativeAI and #machinelearning Africa needs to push the #RightofAccess agenda more firmly: https://researchictafrica.net/publication/digitalisation-for-a-just-social-compact-global-south-lessons-from-the-covid-19-pandemic/

Digitalisation for a Just Social Compact: Global South Lessons from the COVID-19 Pandemic

The final synthesis report of the COVID-19 Responses for Equity (CORE) Project has been completed. The CORE Project encompasses the Latin American, South Asian, and African regions and is delivered

Research ICT Africa

Michael Veale Jan 12, 2023

Full judgment to come, but @Curia CJEU rules today that controllers cannot get away with providing just "categories" of data recipients when they hold the actual data on who they transferred to. Important for strengthening the #RightOfAccess to ensure forward provenance is as a strong as backward provenance, to track complex data chains. Ruling in C-154/21 Österreichische Post (Informations relatives aux destinataires de données personnelles), press release https://curia.europa.eu/jcms/jcms/p1_3869656/en/ #GDPR #eudp

Peter Hense 🇺🇦May 4, 2022

Employee #DSARs are coming to a California #CPRA near you.

What do you need to know?
What do you need to do?

On May 11, at 9am EST; 14:00 UK Time; 15:00 CEST join experts from Canada, UK, Germany and the US

- What does the employee DSAR process entail?
- What are common pitfalls?; and
- What to do right now to your systems, processes, policies and disclosures.

Registration:

https://www.foxrothschild.com/events/employee-data-requests-what-can-europe-and-canada-teach-us

#dataprivacy #dataprotection #employeedata #rightofaccess