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The Romanian DPA issues cumulative fines totaling EUR 7,000 for multiple data security breaches

The Romanian DPA has levied cumulative fines amounting to EUR 7,000 against a major retail chain for several breaches of the GDPR. The fines were imposed following multiple data breach notifications and subsequent investigations that exposed significant lapses in the retail chain's data protection measures, resulting in unauthorized access and disclosure of personal data. Details of the Brea…
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The Romanian cybersecurity authority publishes the draft law on the transposition of NIS2 Directive

The Romanian National Cyber Security Directorate (DNSC) has published the draft law on the transposition of the Directive (EU) 2022/2555 on measures for a high common level of cybersecurity across the EU (NIS2 Directive). According to the NIS2 Directive, all EU Member States, including Romania, must adopt the measures to comply with this Directive by 17 October 2024. This means that the Romania…
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The Artificial Intelligence Act enters into force

On 1 August 2024, the Artificial Intelligence Act (AI Act) enters into force as Regulation (EU) 2024/1689. This entry into force comes 20 days from the date of publication of the regulation in the Official Journal of the European Union. The text of the AI Act is available here. The regulation will mainly become applicable 2 years as of the entry into force, with certain exceptions. Amo…

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Trying to patch up an old law, the EDPB adopts a new ePrivacy guidance

Author: Iurie Cojocaru
It is hard to regulate technology. One of the reasons, amongst many others, is time. What you regulate today does not correspond to the technical landscape of tomorrow. Back in the first decade of 2000, when the ePrivacy Directive was adopted and amended, the European legislator did n…
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Romanian DPA Report – A Year in Review – 2022

Author: Iurie Cojocaru, Oxana Gorgan
Romanian DPA case studies – our top 5 picks 1. Refusal to provide the contractual clauses which represent the safeguard for the data transfer to a third country Case study: A data subject complained about the refusal of a financial banking institution to provide him with…
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What are the personal data? A new CJEU case may settle things in a long dispute

Author: Iurie Cojocaru
As we all know, “personal data” represents information related to an identified or identifiable natural person. So how do you identify someone? By name or through an image, one would answer. But what happens when we do not know the name and the image of the person but we are able to …

Speaking engagements

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NNDKP organized a webinar on the EU AI Act

On 28 May 2024, NNDKP organized the EU AI Act: First steps towards compliance webinar which focused on the legal updates introduced by the new regulation. Together with the participants, our colleagues, Iurie Cojocaru, Partner and Head of the Data Protection Practice, and Madalina Vasile, Managing Associate in the same practice, discussed about the legal provisions of the EU AI Act which compan…
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Iurie Cojocaru – speaker at the „GDPR – Data Privacy Observer 2024” conference

On January 25, Iurie Cojocaru, Partner and Head of the Data Protection Practice, was a speaker at the „GDPR – Data Privacy Observer 2024” conference. Iurie Cojocaru talked in the conference`s first session of discussions and shared information on the personal data protection requirements resulting from the EU`s Data Act, recently entered into force. Moreover, the third edition of the Romanian R…
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NNDKP organized an event dedicated to data protection

On Tuesday, November 21, NNDKP`s Data Protection practice organized an event focused on current issues in the field of data protection and security, an information and debate opportunity dedicated to clients. In an interactive discussion framework, the participants discussed topics of interest with NNDKP`s data protection team members and analyzed various situations encountered in practice, fac…

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