On 26 April 2022, the ECJ ruled in Case C-401/19 that the disputed Art. 17(4)(b) and Art. 17(4)(c) last sentence of Directive (EU) 2019/790. c, last sentence, of Directive (EU) 2019/790, which regulates the use of so-called upload filters and which Poland sought to have annulled, does not violate the right to freedom of expression …
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CNIL Sanctions Google 50 Million Euros for Non-Compliance to the GDPR
On May 25th, 2018 the General Data Protection Regulation (GDPR) entered into force. From that date forth, companies were required to comply with the text in order to best protect citizens’ personal data within the European Union. In France, it is the French Data Protection Authority (CNIL) which monitors the compliance of companies with the …
Alibaba Group: The Impact of GDPR on China’s Enterprises
The EU General Data Protection Regulation (GDPR) is coming into effect on May 25th, 2018. The Regulation will supersede the Directive 95/46/EC. It aims to unify the EU data protection legislations and strengthen EU’s data protection to meet the new privacy challenges brought by the development of digital technologies. GDPR will have significant impact on …
Data protection: The Rise of the Privacy Shield
On July 12th 2016, the European Commission adopted the substitute for the Safe Harbor, the data protection agreement previously signed between the Commission and the United States Department of Commerce in 2010. This new agreement is referred to as the “Privacy Shield”. As a reminder of the present state, the European Union Court of Justice …
GOODBYE OLD FRIEND…
Brexit and the consequences for intellectual property rights On June 24th, 2016, the United Kingdom referendum result came: Brexit over Remain. Though the economic and political effects of this exit of the European Union are yet to be determined, we are currently able to discern some of the most foreseeable consequences for intellectual property rights.
When data protection mingles with competition law and the right to data portability
According to Margrethe Verstager, European Commissioner for Competition, “we as consumers have a new currency that we can use […] – our data”[1] which most of the time consumers do not realize they posses and this is what the Digital Single Market Strategy addresses. The Digital Single Market Strategy aims at creating easy access and …
Dutch legislative reform introduces an obligation to notify data breaches also applicable to non-Dutch undertakings
The Dutch reform entered into force on the 1st of January 2016 and contains an obligation to notify data breaches in a maximum of 72 hours from the occurrence of the breach[i]. The obligation used to be valid only for data controllers of certain sectors [ii], while this new law extends the obligation to all …