Our IT and Gaming department analyzes the latest updates in the Spanish gaming sector, promoted by the Spanish  Directorate General for the Regulation of Gambling (“DGOJ”) in the last months:

As announced by the Spanish Data Protection Agency’s Director, Mar España, during the Annual Open Session held on 26 June 2016, a public consultation procedure has been opened for the amendment of Act 15/1999, on the Protection of Personal Data (“Spanish Data Protection Act”).

After the invalidation, by the European Court of Justice in October 2015, of the European Commission Decision which declared that entities adhered to the so-called “Safe Harbor” granted a level of protection equivalent to this applicable to the Member States, a large number of companies have been forced to seek alternative mechanisms to legitimate their data transfers to the United States. 

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