Scholarly Articles & Institutional Publications

On July 26, 2016, the Article 29 Working Party (WP29) released a statement on the decision of the European Commission on the EU-U.S. Privacy Shield. The statement refers to the Privacy Shield approved by the European Commission on July 12, 2016 (see here) and addresses the changes brought to the text of the document after […]

Interesting article discussing international data transfer between Europe and the U.S. Abstract:  “In Schrems v. Data Protection Commissioner, the Court of Justice of the European Union invalidated the EU-US Safe Harbour arrangement allowing personal data to be transferred to the US. The judgment affirms the fundamental right to data protection, defines an adequate level of […]

On February 29, 2016, the European Commission issued the legal texts to implement the EU-US Privacy Shield and a communication relevant to that. The Commission also released a draft “adequacy decision”. Once adopted, the adequacy decision establishes that “the safeguards provided when data are transferred under the new EU-U.S. Privacy Shield are equivalent to data protection standards […]

On January 25, 2016, the US government responded to EPIC (Electronic Privacy Information Center) ’s FOIA (Freedom of Information Act) request and released in full the European Union-United States data protection “Umbrella Agreement”. The European Commission had already made the file publicly available on its website (see here) starting on September 2015. The US Government highlighted […]

  On October 29, 2015, the European Parliament approved a resolution on the safe use of remotely piloted aircraft systems (RPAS) in the field of civil aviation. As flying drones for commercial services and recreational use becomes even more popular, the European Parliament calls for a legal European framework ensuring that they pose no threat […]

After the EU Court of Justice (ECJ) held that the Safe Harbour decision is invalid (see here ), all transfers of personal data that are still taking place under the decision are unlawful. So the Article 29 Working Party (WP29) in its September 16, 2015 statement after the ECJ’s Schrems decision. The Woking group also opines that […]

Dutch courts seem conscious of the need to balance privacy with the right to freedom of expression. Two authors, Kulk and Zuiderveen Borgesius, published on August 27, 2015, a paper, Freedom of Expression and ‘Right to Be Forgotten’ Cases in the Netherlands after Google Spain, examining how the Google Spain judgment has been applied in […]

On September 11, 2015, the European Data Protection Supervisor (EDPS) issued an opinion “to provide a framework for a wider and deeper discussion on how the EU can ensure the integrity of its values at the same time as it embraces the benefits of the new technologies”. Opinion 4/2015, “Towards a new digital ethics, Data, […]

  The case An Italian Court had to decide on a request for payment of legal fees of a Lawyer against a client. The client had not fulfilled her obligation towards the Lawyer, who sued her, producing as evidence some e-mails. Therefore, as the court itself said, “To ascertain the right fulfillment of burden of […]

On June 16, 2015, the Article 29 Working Party (WP29) adopted an opinion on the utilization of drones for all civil purposes. According to WP29, several privacy risks may arise in relation to the processing of data carried out by the equipment on-board a drone. “Such risks can range from a lack of transparency of […]