On July 22, 2016, the European Data Protection Supervisor (EDPS) released Opinion 5/2016 on the review of the ePrivacy Directive (2002/58/EC). This Opinion focuses on the issues specifically requested by the EU Commission. Particularly, the EDPS suggested that “a new proposal on ePrivacy should guarantee confidentiality of communications, offer clarity and complement the General Data […]
On April 2016, the Information Commissioner’s Officer (ICO) issued the Annual Track 2016, a research that assesses the level of awareness of UK population of its information/privacy rights. According to the document, the most important social issue for UK citizens is health care. Only 15% is concerned with protection of personal information. And the younger generations seem […]
On February 8, 2016, the French Data Protection Authority (CNIL) issued a formal notice to Facebook to comply within three months with the French Data Protection Act. According to CNIL, among other violations, Facebook is breaching French Data Protection Laws by transferring “personal data to the United States on the basis of Safe Harbour, although the […]
Tags: DATA PROTECTION, INTERNATIONAL DATA PROTECTION, US PRIVACY
What is this all about? The EU is in the process of reforming its existing data protection rules. These reforms have been moving slowly through the EU legislative pipeline but we seem now to be getting closer to a final agreement. Even though the expected implementation date of these rules is still likely to be […]
Facebook will require Belgian users to create a Facebook account to be able to view its public content. The company was not able to reach an agreement with the Belgian Data Protection Authority (Commissie voor de bescherming von de persoonlijke levensfeer) and it is expecting to receive an order prohibiting the use of cookies to […]
Facebook declared it will appeal a recent decision by the Brussels Court of First Instance (see here) — Rechtbank van eerste aanleg – which could lead to further fragmentation of EU data protection standards by giving ground to local data protection authorities to regulate another aspect of data processing within their own borders. The decision found the […]
The vast difference between the views of privacy held in the US and in the EU is illustrated by the divergent paths of two prominent data privacy actions. In the EU, the action was brought by Max Schrems as a complaint before the Irish Data Protection Commissioner, claiming that Facebook’s transfer of user data to […]
The vast difference between the views of privacy held in the US and in the EU is illustrated by the divergent paths of two prominent data privacy actions. In the EU, the action was brought by Max Schrems as a complaint before the Irish Data Protection Commissioner, claiming that Facebook’s transfer of user data to […]
The UK’s highest court, the Supreme Court, has now announced (see here) that it will in part allow an appeal to be heard that has been brought by Google against the Court of Appeal’s ruling of 27 March 2015 in the Vidal-Hall case. Generally-speaking the Supreme Court’s focus is on cases that raise points of […]
On July 28, 2015, the UK Supreme Court granted permission to appeal the Court of Appeal’s decision in Vidal-Hall -v- Google. In March 2015, the Court of Appeal gave the leeway for UK data subjects to sue Google in England for cookies violations even if there was no pecuniary loss. More information on the ‘Safari Workaround’ […]