Data Protection Insider Blog

Data Protection Insider

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.

Subscribe now!

All
Editors

4. July 2024 | by DPI Editorial Team

Data Protection Insider, Issue 115

– 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, […]

No Comments

1. July 2024 | by DPI Editorial Team

Data Protection Insider, Issue 114

– ECtHR: Monaco in Breach of Article 8 ECHR for Extracting Too Much Data from a Lawyer’s Phone- On 6th June, the ECtHR ruled that Monaco had infringed Article 8 ECHR for failing to adequately protect the data on a lawyer’s phone when seeking to extract a certain recording from it in the case of Bersheda and Rybolovlev v. Monaco. […]

No Comments

1. July 2024 | by DPI Editorial Team

Data Protection Insider, Issue 113

– ECtHR: Italy Offers Insufficient Redress Against Illegal Telephone Tapping of Persons Not Party to Criminal Proceedings – On 23rd May, the ECtHR ruled that Italian law did not offer effective guarantees against abuse in the framework of telephone tapping of individuals who are not suspected of, or charged with, crime in Contrada v Italy (N 4). As to the […]

No Comments

1. July 2024 | by DPI Editorial Team

Data Protection Insider, Issue 112

– ECtHR: North Macedonia Overstepped Margin of Appreciation in Adoption Secrecy – On 14th May, the ECtHR ruled that North Macedonia had not struck an appropriate balance between the interests of adopted persons to know their origins and the interests of their parents to remain anonymous in Mitrevska v. North Macedonia. As to the facts of the case, the applicant was adopted as […]

No Comments

1. July 2024 | by DPI Editorial Team

Data Protection Insider, Issue 111

– CJEU rules on Access to Internet Data in relation to Copyright – On 30th April, the CJEU ruled in the case of La Quadrature du Net and Others. The case essentially concerned French legislation which the applicants alleged ‘permit access to’ internet ‘connection data in a disproportionate manner for non-serious copyright offences committed on the internet, without prior review by a judge […]

No Comments

25. April 2024 | by DPI Editorial Team

Data Protection Insider, Issue 110

– CJEU Rules on Non-Material Damages – On 11th April 2024, the CJEU delivered its judgment in the case of GP v juris GmbH. The case concerned a self-employed lawyer, who was a client of the legal database company juris. The plaintiff revoked all consents, and objected to the processing of their data for the purposes of marketing. Despite this, […]

No Comments

11. March 2024 | by DPI Editorial Team

Data Protection Insider, Issue 109

– CJEU: Fingerprints in EU National Cards Not Contrary to Fundamental Rights to Privacy and Data Protection – On 21st March, the CJEU ruled in RL v Landeshauptstadt Wiesbaden that EU Regulation 2019/1157, which requires EU national identity cards to include two fingerprints of the owners of the card, is not incompatible with the EU fundamental rights to privacy and data […]

No Comments

8. March 2024 | by DPI Editorial Team

Data Protection Insider, Issue 108

– CJEU: Court on Personal Data and Controllership in Online Advertising – On 7th March, the CJEU ruled in the case of IAB Europe v Gegevensbeschermingsautoriteit. In terms of the facts, the case concerned IAB Europe’s Transparency & Consent Framework (TCF). The TCF provides a set of rules and technical specifications aimed at allowing online advertisers to process users’ personal data […]

No Comments

29. February 2024 | by DPI Editorial Team

Data Protection Insider, Issue 107

– ECtHR Rules on Publication and Destruction of Information Obtained via Covert Surveillance – On 22nd February, the ECtHR ruled in the case of Kaczmarek v. Poland. In terms of the facts, the applicant is the wife of a Polish politician. In 2007, an anti-corruption investigation was launched in relation to the Ministry of Agriculture. The investigation failed, and the […]

No Comments

1. February 2024 | by DPI Editorial Team

Data Protection Insider, Issue 106

– CJEU: Parliamentary Committees Supervising National Security Authorities Are Subject to the GDPR – On 16th January, the CJEU ruled in Österrreichische Datenschutzbehörde v WK that parliamentary committees which supervise national security authorities should comply with the GDPR. As to the facts of the case, the applicant in the main proceedings, WK, was heard as a witness by a Parliamentary Committee […]

No Comments

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.

Data Protection Insider

Data Protection Insider, Issue 115

Data Protection Insider, Issue 114

Data Protection Insider, Issue 113

Data Protection Insider, Issue 112

Data Protection Insider, Issue 111

Data Protection Insider, Issue 110

Data Protection Insider, Issue 109

Data Protection Insider, Issue 108

Data Protection Insider, Issue 107

Data Protection Insider, Issue 106

Categories

Tags

Links

Recent Posts