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Data Protection Insider, Issue 54

– AG Opinion in SIA ‘SS’ v Valsts ieņēmumu dienests: GDPR Interpreted Broadly to Allow Access by Tax Authorities to Private Company Data – On 2nd September, Advocate General Bobek delivered his Opinion in the SIA ‘SS’ v Valsts ieņēmumu dienests case. It concerns the applicability of the GDPR and the compatibility with its provisions in a situation where a […]

Data Protection Insider, Issue 53

– EDPB Adopts a Dispute Resolution Decision Concerning WhatsApp – During the 53rd Plenary Session on 28th July, the EDPB adopted a binding dispute resolution decision pursuant to Article 65 GDPR. The decision concerns the draft decision adopted by the Irish Supervisory Authority (SA) following its inquiry into whether the transparency provisions of WhatsApp are compliant with Articles 12-14 GDPR. The […]

Data Protection Insider, Issue 52

– ECtHR Rules on Intelligence Agencies in Zoltán Varga – On 20th July, the ECtHR ruled in the case of Zoltán Varga v. Slovakia. In terms of the facts of the case: the applicant was subject to an intelligence agency surveillance operation. The operation, legitimated by warrants from the Regional Court requested by the Slovak Intelligence Service (SIS), aimed at […]

Data Protection Insider, Issue 51

– ECtHR Rules on Unlawful Covert Video-Recording in Berlizev – On 8th July 2021, the ECtHR ruled in the case of Berlizev v. Ukraine. In terms of the facts, the case concerns the applicant’s conviction, before Ukrainian courts, of having accepted a bribe, the evidence for which was gathered by a covert police operation including video-recordings of the applicant. The […]

Data Protection Insider, Issue 50

– CJEU Rules on DPA Competence in Facebook Ireland – On 15th June 2021, the CJEU ruled in the case of Facebook Ireland Ltd, Facebook Inc., Facebook Belgium BVBA v Gegevensbeschermingsautoriteit. In terms of the facts: in 2015, the Belgian DPA brought a case before the Belgian Courts in order to gain an injunction concerning some of Facebook’s data processing […]

Data Protection Insider, Issue 49

– Commission Publishes New SCCs – On 4th June, the European Commission ‘adopted two sets of standard contractual clauses, one for use between controllers and processors and one for the transfer of personal data to third countries.’ In terms of law, the Commission asserts that the new SCCs take into account requirements under the GDPR as well as the CJEU’s […]

Data Protection Insider, Issue 48

– ECtHR Revisits Case Law on Bulk Surveillance: Centrum för Rättvisa v. Sweden – On 25th May, the ECtHR rendered two seminal judgements concerning bulk telecommunications surveillance. They are revisions by the Grand Chamber of two earlier Chamber judgments submitted by Centrum för Rättvisa against Sweden and by Big Brother Watch against the UK. The present story focuses on the […]

Data Protection Insider, Issue 47

– CJEU Offers Guidance on the Law Enforcement Directive – On 12th May, the CJEU rendered one of its first judgements which provides guidance on the interpretation and application of the Law Enforcement Directive (LED). As to the facts of the case, the applicant, a German national and resident, was subject to a red notice in the INTERPOL database, entered […]

Data Protection Insider, Issue 46

– EDPB Releases Guidelines on Dispute Resolution by the Board – The EDPB has published guidelines ‘on the application of Article 65(1)(a) GDPR’ – the Article dealing with ‘Dispute resolution by the Board’. The Board locate the elaboration of substance in the document within the frame provided by the CFREU – in particular the right to good administration under Article […]

Data Protection Insider, Issue 45

– Liebscher v Austria: Publication of Divorce Settlement as a Breach of the Right to Privacy– On 6th April the ECtHR decided in the case of Liebscher v Austria that Austria had not fulfilled its positive obligations to protect the personal data of the applicant under Article 8 ECHR. As to the facts of the case, the applicant had divorced […]
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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