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E14: The Three Pillars of GDPR
E13: GDPR Wedding Day & Beyond
E12: GDPR Article 22 and Automated Decision Making
E8: Interview with Cookiebot CEO on Technical Solutions to GDPR Readiness
A recent judgment of the European Court of Justice (ECJ) sheds light on the question of whether a data controller can be exempted from liability for the error of a person acting under its authority....more
Valuable insights into the measures European regulators expect businesses to take to protect data privacy can be found in a report from the European Data Protection Board (EDPB) summarizing decisions under the EU’s General...more
Germany's Federal Constitutional Court holds that the question should be referred to the European Court of Justice - Is a data subject entitled to compensation from a controller or processor if the data subject's GDPR...more
Report on Supply Chain Compliance 2, no. 20 (Oct. 24, 2019) - The right to be forgotten is a statutory right under the GDPR, and since the implementation of that regulation in May 2018, there have been several requests for...more
It is not clear at this point whether joint and several liability attaches to the actions of joint controllers. The GDPR states that a data subject “may exercise his or her rights under this Regulation in respect of and...more
On July 29, 2019, the European Court of Justice (“ECJ”) issued its decision in the case of FashionID GmbH & Co. KG v. Verbraucherzentrale NRW. The ECJ found that websites that integrate Facebook plugins are jointly...more
The European Court of Justice (ECJ) in Luxembourg rendered a judgment on July 12 that explains, among other things, what a (joint) data controller is. The judgment is on the “old” EU Data Protection Directive 95/46/EC, but...more
The EU Data Protection Directive 95/46/EC (the “Directive”) creates the legal framework for the national data-protection laws in each EU member state. The Directive states that personal data may only be transferred to...more
After the October 6, 2015, decision of the CJEU, it is clear that transfers of personal data may no longer take place under the Safe Harbor. This was confirmed with no ambiguity by the Article 29 Working Party (Group 29,...more
With EU Safe Harbor Invalidated, Companies Ask: What Now? - What happens now?: That is the question that businesses across the country are asking after the Court of Justice of the European Union (CJEU) threw out the...more
The European Union’s highest court has, effective immediately, invalidated the US-EU Safe Harbor program relied upon by many companies as the basis for lawfully transferring and processing personal information from the EU to...more
As I reported earlier today, the Court of Justice of the EU (ECJ) has declared Safe Harbor invalid. The full decision is now available online in English (other languages also available at curia.europa.eu by searching on...more
The recent high-profile decision by the European Court of Justice involving Google has highlighted the existence of stringent data privacy laws in the European Union (EU). However, although the Google decision was...more
In its newly published Fact Sheet on the Right to Be Forgotten, the European Commission has tried to dampen the negative reaction to the European Court of Justice (ECJ) Right to Be Forgotten decision by noting that the right...more