By: Claude-Étienne Armingaud and Josefine Beil
The European Data Protection Board recently published its draft Guidelines 02/2025, which remain open to consultation until 09 June 2025. Stakeholders in the blockchain industry are encouraged to submit any observations before the finalization of these Guidelines.
Read MoreBy: Cameron Abbott, Rob Pulham, Stephanie Mayhew and Emre Cakmakcioglu
In Australia, last week was the 2025 Privacy Awareness Week (PAW), with this year’s theme ‘Privacy – it’s everyone’s business’. Among other things in PAW, the Office of the Australian Information Commissioner (OAIC) produced a Privacy Foundations self-assessment tool, which provides a privacy maturity score on the basis of tenets such as Accountability, Transparency, Collection and Data breach management. The tool, and PAW more broadly emphasise that privacy is not just about compliance, but good business and building trust. NSW, Vic and QLD state governments have each run parallel PAW events.
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