DLA Piper’s Data Protection and Privacy practice delivers topical legal and regulatory updates and analysis from across the globe.
By Patrick Van Eecke and Anne-Gabrielle Haie
Vehicles, drivers and passengers are becoming more and more connected, generating increasing amounts of data. The latest evolution of digital technologies, such as robotics, Internet of Things, Artificial Intelligence, high-performance computers and powerful communication networks leads self-driving cars out of an imaginary world and into our daily lives.
International Data Protection Day, which falls annually on January 28, is “an international effort to create awareness about the importance of respecting privacy, safeguarding data and enabling trust”. We would like to take this opportunity to share a number of data protection resources developed by our global Data Protection, Privacy and Security team to assist […]
The ICO is taking active enforcement against organisations who are not properly registered to pay the UK data protection fee. In our earlier blog post on the UK’s New Data Protection Fee, we explained that the UK was implementing regulations (which are unique in Europe) to require payment of a registration fee to the Information […]
In its landmark decision of the 24th of September (C-507/17), the EU Court of Justice in Luxembourg has sided with Google over a claim by the French supervisory authority regarding the application of the so-called ‘right to be forgotten’. This right refers to the ability for individuals in Europe to demand that search engines, such […]
Since the European Commission unveiled a proposal for an e-Privacy Regulation in January 2017, this new piece of legislation, aiming to adapt rules on electronic communications and cookies, has undergone many iterations. The European Parliament has left its version untouched since October 2017, and in the meantime the Council of the EU has regularly published […]
Updated official guidance on direct marketing appears to be on the horizon: the Belgian Data Protection Authority has launched a public consultation on direct marketing, with a view to updating its Recommendation No. 02/2013 of 30 January 2013 on direct marketing. In its 2013 Recommendation, available in Dutch and French, the Belgian DPA covered several […]
by Patrick Van Eecke & Gilles Hachez A little less than a month ago, the Belgian House of Representatives appointed the new commissioner and directors of the Belgian Data Protection Authority (DPA), as we explained in our blogpost here. Today, little less than eleven months after the establishment of the DPA, the new commissioner, Mr […]
By Ilias Abassi Since the implementation of the GDPR, there has been much discussion with respect to the appropriate legal basis for the processing of personal data in the context of a clinical trial, in particular how this relates to the Clinical Trials Regulation (CTR) which is expected to enter into force in 2020. There […]
