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Data Protection Insider, Issue 64

–  ‘SS’ SIA v Valsts ieņēmumu dienests: Processing by Tax Authorities Should Comply with the GDPR –  On 24th February, the CJEU ruled on several questions regarding the applicability and interpretation of several provisions of the GDPR to the processing of personal data by the tax authorities for tax purposes. As to the facts of the case, a Latvian website […]

Data Protection Insider, Issue 63

–  EDPB Adopts Opinion on Luxemburg DPA’s Draft Certification Criteria–  On 1st February, the EDPB adopted ‘Opinion 1/2022on the draft decision of the Luxembourg Supervisory Authority regarding the GDPR – CARPA certification criteria’. The criteria were drafted by the Luxemburg DPA under Article 42(5) of the GDPR and were submitted to the EDPB for an Opinion according to Article 64(1)(c) […]

Data Protection Insider, Issue 62

–  Telephone Interception During Criminal Proceedings with Adequate Safeguards: Adomaitis v Lithuania –  On 18 January, the ECtHR examined the case of Adomaitis v Lithuania concerning the question of communications interception against the ex-director of the Kybartai prison. As to the facts of the case, the applicant was suspected of abusing his office in order to offer better conditions for […]

Data Protection Insider, Issue 61

–  Another Surveillance Law ‘Bites the Dust’: the ECtHR on the Bulgarian Surveillance Law in Ekimdzhiev and Others v Bulgaria –  On 11th January 2022, the ECtHR ruled that both the Bulgarian law on secret surveillance and the Bulgarian rules on retention and accessing of electronic communications data for law enforcement and national security purposes, as they currently stand, breach […]

Data Protection Insider, Issue 60

–  The Right of Access to the EPSO Exam Weighting Coefficients: JR v the European Commission –  On 1st December, the CJEU ruled on the question of the right of an EPSO applicant to have access not only to the exam grade given to them, but also to the weighting coefficients which formed the final grade. As to the facts […]

Data Protection Insider, Issue 59

–  Särgava v Estonia: Safeguards Necessary for Examining a Lawyer’s Laptop and Mobile Phone –  On 16th November, the ECtHR rendered a judgment on the confidentiality of legal professional communications in the case of Särgava v Estonia. As to the facts of the case, the applicant is a lawyer and at the same time a shareholder in companies, which were […]

Data Protection Insider, Issue 58

–  EDPB Adopts Opinions on Belgian BCRs – On 26th October, the EDPB adopted two Opinions concerning Belgian companies’ BCRs: i) ‘Opinion 33/2021 on the draft decision of the Belgian Supervisory Authority regarding the Controller Binding. Corporate Rules of Carrier’; and ii) ‘Opinion 34/2021 on the draft decision of the Belgian Supervisory Authority regarding the Controller Binding Corporate Rules of […]

Data Protection Insider, Issue 57

–  ML. v Slovakia: Post-Mortem Privacy Protection – On 14th October, the ECtHR examined the balance between the freedom of speech interests of the Slovak newspapers which had been publishing articles about the sexual abuse convictions by a deceased priest and the private life interests of the priest and his mother in M.L. v Slovakia. As to the facts of […]

Data Protection Insider, Issue 56

–  AG Bobek Reads the Judicial Capacity Exception Broadly – On 6th October, the AG Bobek delivered his Opinion in the case of X, Z v Autoriteit Persoonsgegevens. As to the facts of the case, as a standard practice, in the Netherlands journalists are granted access to certain judicial documents before the hearing of a court case in order to […]

Data Protection Insider, Issue 55

–  ECtHR Considers Domestic Violence and Cyberviolence in Volodina (No. 2) – On 14th September, the ECtHR ruled in the case of Volodina v. Russia (no. 2). In essence, the case concerned the applicant’s claim that the Russian authorities had not acted effectively in investigating cyberviolence – including, among other things, the publication of photos and the creation of fake […]
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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