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Following the adoption of the new EU General Data Protection Regulation (GDPR) on 27 April 2016, most organisations began to re-examine their internal processes and procedures in order to ensure compliance with the new requirements before its entry into force in May 2018. In this ninth article, we will examine the requirement of consent under the GDPR and provide guidance regarding its collect and validity
Data subjects’ consent has always been a key notion in data protection and a basis for certain types of processing but, until now, the ways to collect such consent and the conditions that had to be fulfilled by companies for consent to be valid were not 100% clear. While Plato’s quotation “your silence gives consent” was applicable for certain processing under the...
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