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Welcome to Data Protection Insider, your biweekly digest of the latest developments in EU data protection law. Each issue brings you insightful analysis of recent court rulings, legislative updates and regulatory changes that impact data protection across the European Union. Stay informed and deepen your understanding of the evolving data protection legal landscape with our biweekly updates.

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19. December 2024  |   by DPI Editorial Team

Data Protection Insider, Issue 124
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-ECtHR: Slovakia Breaches Prisoner’s Correspondence Confidentiality- On 12th December, the ECtHR ruled that the measures implemented to monitor the correspondence between a prisoner and his lawyer were contrary to Article 8 ECHR in Adamco v Slovakia (No.2). As to the facts of the case, the applicant has been serving his sentence in different prisons in Slovakia since 2006. The monitoring […]
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5. December 2024  |   by DPI Editorial Team

Data Protection Insider, Issue 123
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-CJEU: Law Enforcement Authorities Must Assess the ‘Strict Necessity’ of Biometric and Genetic Data Processing- On 28th November, the CJEU ruled that law enforcement authorities must assess the ‘strict necessity’ of the processing of biometric and DNA data, and that this assessment may not be generally substituted by a court assessment of the ‘strict necessity’ in a case clarifying V.S. […]
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21. November 2024  |   by DPI Editorial Team

Data Protection Insider, Issue 122
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-ECtHR: Bosnia and Herzegovina Does Not Respect Legal professional Privilege- On 5th November, the ECtHR ruled that the legal framework in Bosnia and Herzegovina does not offer adequate protection for the confidentiality of lawyers’ correspondence in the case of Neziric v. Bosnia and Herzegovina. As to the facts of the case, the applicant was a lawyer. Upon the order of […]
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7. November 2024  |   by DPI Editorial Team

Data Protection Insider, Issue 121
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-ECtHR: Russian ‘Foreign Agents’ Legislation Breaches Various Article 8 Rights- On 22nd October, the ECtHR ruled that the Russian Act on ‘foreign agents’ severely restricts different aspects of the concerned individuals’ private lives in breach of Article 8 ECHR in the case of Kobaliya and Others v Russia. As to the facts of the case, as of 2012, the Russian […]
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24. October 2024  |   by DPI Editorial Team

Data Protection Insider, Issue 120
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-CJEU Rules on the Sale of Personal Data and Legitimate Interest- On 4th October, the CJEU ruled in the case of Koninklijke Nederlandse Lawn Tennisbond v Autoriteit Persoonsgegevens. In terms of the facts, the case concerned a sports federation (KNLTB – the plaintiff). The federation disclosed its members’ personal data to certain sponsors for remuneration. Certain of the federation’s members […]
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10. October 2024  |   by DPI Editorial Team

Data Protection Insider, Issue 119
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-CJEU: Administrative Fines Not Obligatory when GDPR is Infringed- On 26 th September, the CJEU ruled that a supervisory authority is not always required to impose an administrative fine in order to remedy the situation which gave rise to an infringement of the GDPR in TR v Land Hessen . As to the facts of the case, the applicant in […]
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26. September 2024  |   by DPI Editorial Team

Data Protection Insider, Issue 118
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-CJEU Rules on Disclose of Shareholder Data- On 12th September, the CJEU ruled in the case of HTB Neunte Immobilien Portfolio geschlossene Investment UG & Co. KG and Others. In terms of the facts, the applicants are investment companies, which hold shares in investment funds via trust companies. These funds are organised as limited partnerships – partnerships ‘offering shares for […]
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12. September 2024  |   by DPI Editorial Team

Data Protection Insider, Issue 117
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–AG de la Tour: High Number of Complaints Does Not Make Them Automatically ‘Excessive’- On 5th September, AG de la Tour advised the Court to rule that a high number of complaints, submitted over a short period of time does not automatically make them ‘excessive’ in Österreichische Datenschutzbehörde. As to the facts of the case, a data subject (FT), submitted […]
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18. July 2024  |   by DPI Editorial Team

Data Protection Insider, Issue 116
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-CJEU Rules on the Standing of Representative Organisations- On 11th July, the CJEU ruled in the case of Meta Platforms Ireland Ltd v Bundesverband der Verbraucherzentralen und Verbraucherverbände – Verbraucherzentrale Bundesverband eV. In terms of the facts, the Bundesverband der Verbraucherzentralen und Verbraucherverbände – Verbraucherzentrale Bundesverband e.V. (‘Federal Union‘) wanted to submit a complaint as a representative action under Article […]
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4. July 2024  |   by DPI Editorial Team

Data Protection Insider, Issue 115
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– CJEU Rules on Compensation and Damages in Scalable Capital – On 20th June, the CJEU delivered its judgment in the Scalable Capital case. As to the facts of the case, the applicants in the main proceedings provided their personal data in the course of an investment on a trading platform maintained by Scalable Investment. Following a hack of the platform, […]
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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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