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Data Protection Insider, Issue 86

   – The CJEU: Controllers Should Disclose the Full List of Recipients as a Rule –    On 12th January, the CJEU ruled on whether controllers may choose to restrict the information about recipients only to the categories of recipients of personal data when responding to data subject access requests in the case of RW v Österreichische Post AG. As to the facts of the case, […]

Data Protection Insider, Issue 85

 – CJEU Rules on De-referencing –    On 8th December, the CJEU delivered its verdict in the case of TU, RE v Google LLC. In essence, the case concerned the publication of articles and images of TU and RE in connection with ‘critical opinions…as to the reliability of the investment model of several…companies’. Certain ‘articles…were displayed in the list of search results produced when […]

Data Protection Insider, Issue 84

– CJEU Invalidates a Provision in the Anti-Money Laundering and Terrorist Financing Directive on Data Protection Grounds –    On 22nd November, the CJEU invalidated a provision in the Anti-Money Laundering and Terrorist Financing Directive in the Joined Cases WM and Sovim SA v Luxembourg Business Registers, because it is not compatible with the EU data protection framework. As to […]

Data Protection Insider, Issue 83

– CJEU Ruling Strengthens the Role of Consent and Right to Erasure –   On 17th November, the CJEU ruled on the question of telecommunication data storage and access for law enforcement purposes in the case of Spetsializirana prokuratura. As to the facts of the case, the specialized prosecution asked the specialized criminal court to grant it access to the traffic and location […]

Data Protection Insider, Issue 82

– CJEU Ruling Strengthens the Role of Consent and Right to Erasure –   On 27th October, the CJEU ruled on the right to withdraw consent and the right to erasure in relation to multiple controllers in the case of Proximus NV v Gegevensbeschermingsautoriteit in the context of publishing someone’s contact details in public directories. As to the facts of […]

Data Protection Insider, Issue 81

– CJEU Rules on Purpose Limitation and Storage Limitation –   On 20th October, the CJEU delivered its judgment in the case of Digi Távközlési és Szolgáltató Kft. v Nemzeti Adatvédelmi és Információszabadság Hatóság. As to the facts of the case, Digi is a provider of internet and TV services. Following a technical problem, in April 2018 Digi created a separate […]

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Data Protection Insider, Issue 79

– ECtHR: Hungarian DPA with Insufficient Powers to Control Secret Surveillance –   On 29th September, the ECtHR examined again the Hungarian secret surveillance system in Hüttl v Hungary. As to the facts of the case, the applicant is a lawyer who suspected that his telephone had been tapped. He submitted several complaints to the Hungarian authorities, but they concluded that he had […]

Data Protection Insider, Issue 78

– The CJEU Repeats that Indiscriminate and General Data Retention is Contrary to EU Law –   On 20th September, the CJEU rendered another judgment on the indiscriminate and general retention of traffic and location electronic telecommunications data, including IP addresses, under the e-Privacy Directive, this time in relation to the German legal framework. When examining the German system, the Court first […]

Data Protection Insider, Issue 77

– ECtHR Rules in Case on the Sale of Health Data– On 30th August, the ECtHR found a violation of Article 8 ECHR in the case of Y.G. v Russia concerning the selling of a database containing sensitive health data. As to the facts of the case, the applicant has HIV and hepatitis and this information is stored by the Moscow […]
DPI Editorial Team

Dara Hallinan, Editor: Legal academic working at FIZ Karlsruhe. His specific focus is on the interaction between law, new technologies – particularly ICT and biotech – and society. He studied law in the UK and Germany, completed a Master’s in Human Rights and Democracy in Italy and Estonia and wrote his PhD at the Vrije Universiteit Brussel on the better regulation of genetic privacy in biobanks and genomic research through data protection law. He is also programme director for the annual Computers, Privacy and Data Protection conference.

Diana Dimitrova, Editor: Researcher at FIZ Karlsruhe. Focus on privacy and data protection, especially on rights of data subjects in the Area of Freedom, Security and Justice. Completed her PhD at the VUB on the topic of ‘Data Subject Rights: The rights of access and rectification in the AFSJ’. Previously, legal researcher at KU Leuven and trainee at EDPS. Holds LL.M. in European Law from Leiden University.

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