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Data Protection and Privacy

Is selling personal data permissible?

October 20, 2016, ,
In mid-October Serbian press widely reported about the direct marketing of breast milk substitutes to women who recently gave birth. The media were abuzz with speculations that somebody must have...
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Bosnia: Strict conditions for direct marketing phone calls

October 7, 2016 and , ,
On 15 September 2016, the Personal Data Protection Agency in Bosnia and Herzegovina (“Agency”) took a stance that processing of publicly available telephone numbers for the purpose of direct marketing...
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EU – US Privacy Shield adopted

July 14, 2016, , ,
On 12 July 2016, the European Commission formally adopted a new scheme for trans-Atlantic data flows – the European Union – United States Privacy Shield. The scheme includes some important improvements...
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First disclosure of doctors’ personal data

July 8, 2016, ,
In June 2016, pharmaceutical companies in Serbia belonging to the Association of Manufacturers of Innovative Drugs – INOVIA reported on transfers of value during 2015 to Serbian health-care professionals (HCPs)...
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Montenegro: Data from the police records ended up in a newspaper

May 19, 2016, ,
The Montenegrin Agency for the Protection of Personal Data and the Free Access to Information (“Agency”) published on 22 March 2016 on its website a decision that deals with data leakage from the police...
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EU – US Privacy Shield: Successor to the Safe Harbor

February 9, 2016, , ,
The European Commission and the US reached a deal on transatlantic transfer of personal data on 2 February 2016. For the time being it is only a political agreement which...
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When is video surveillance at workplace too much?

February 5, 2016, ,
In October 2015, the Court of Bosnia and Herzegovina (BiH) upheld a ruling of the Personal Data Protection Agency (“Agency”) which found unlawful the use of surveillance cameras by the...
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Serbia: Mental health data leakage

January 13, 2016 and , ,
In December 2015, a journalist disclosed one patient’s health data in a TV show. The data were related to the patient’s mental health and his treatment in the mental health...
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Final text of the EU Regulation compared with draft Serbian law

December 24, 2015, , ,
On 15 December 2015, the European Parliament and Council of the European Union agreed on the final text of the EU General Data Protection Regulation (“Regulation“). We now know what...
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Getting to know the Draft Serbian Data Protection Act – Part 4 (Positive features)

November 19, 2015, ,
The shortcomings in the Draft Serbian Data Protection Act (“Draft“), analysed in our blog posts of 13 and 17 November, do not tell the whole story about the Draft. The document also contains positive features, mainly (but...
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