Ensuring occupational safety and protecting employees’ health have been of the utmost importance for many employers over the past few weeks. With the rapid spread of Covid-19, employers were forced to adopt strict preventive measures to ensure a safer working environment within their workplaces. While the most obvious solution was the adoption of home office … Continue Reading
On March 26, 2019, the Polish Data Protection regulator (Urząd Ochrony Danych Osobowych – UODO) announced the first administrative fine imposed on a Warsaw-based company for failure to meet the informational obligation toward the data subjects whose data it processed, in violation of article 14 of the General Data Protection Regulation (GDPR). The fined company … Continue Reading
On 15 January 2018, the Ministry of Digital Affairs (Ministry) held a conference to summarize the outcome of a public consultation on Poland’s draft GDPR implementation law. The consultation invited all citizens and entrepreneurs to express their opinion on the draft law on the protection of personal data, which was released by the Ministry on … Continue Reading
At the end of August 2017, legislative work has started to set out principles of checking clean criminal records of applicants for employment in the entities of the financial sector. A list of entities that will benefit from the law covers, inter alia, banks, international financial institutions, insurers, the Polish Export Credit Agency (KUKE), insurance … Continue Reading
In a globalized world, the ability to transfer data between organizations located in different parts of the world is of the utmost importance. The EU Data Protection Directive (GDPR), which will apply from 25 May 2018, governs the international transfer of personal data. Data Transfer Within the EU The free exchange of personal data between … Continue Reading
Within the vast range of changes implemented by the General Data Protection Regulation (GDPR), the scope of consent is mentioned as one of the most controversial. GDPR lists several basis for personal data processing, including consent of a data subject or legitimate business purpose of a data controller. Here we present a brief overview of … Continue Reading
On 28 March 2017, the Ministry of Digital Affairs (the “Ministry”) presented a preliminary draft of some of the provisions of the new Personal Data Protection Act. The remaining part of the Act that is not included in the presented project – which concerns regulations on the new data protection authority’s system position, transitional rules, … Continue Reading
