On 15 September 2022, the European Commission published its proposal for a new Cyber Resilience Act (the Act) that introduces common cybersecurity rules for placing products with digital elements on the EU market. ...more
On 27 July 2022, the Council of State (RVS), the highest administrative court of the Netherlands, published its decision in the VoetbalTV case regarding the interpretation of the legitimate interest legal basis for...more
The European Data Protection Board (EDPB) has adopted, on 16 June 2022, the draft guidelines on certification as a tool for transfers of data to third countries without adequacy status (the Guidelines). The text of the...more
On 16 June 2022, the Canadian Minister of Innovation, Science and Industry and Minister of Justice and Attorney General of Canada introduced the Digital Charter Implementation Act 2022 to modernise the regulation on...more
The entire privacy community waited anxiously for the outcome of the EUR 11 billion class action claim, launched in the summer of 2020 by The Privacy Collective (TPC) against several Oracle and Salesforce entities at the...more
On 20 January 2022, the European Parliament finalised its position on the draft Digital Services Act (DSA), which was adopted with a broad majority during the plenary session....more
On 3 December 2021, the Council of the European Union (Council) agreed its position on measures for a high common level of cybersecurity across the EU, as set out in the proposed revision to the Network and Information...more
The decision of the UK Supreme Court in Lloyd v Google is a welcome relief for data controllers. However, is it the end of class actions for data breach?...more
On 19 November 2021, the European Data Protection Board (EDPB) published the much-awaited draft guidance on the interplay between the provisions of the GDPR on territorial scope (in Article 3) and on international data...more
On 28 October 2021, the Committee on Industry, Research and Energy (ITRE) of the European Parliament agreed its approach to the text of the proposed revision to the Network and Information Systems (NIS) Directive (NIS2) and...more
On 15 December 2020, the European Commission published its Digital Services Act package which proposes two pieces of legislation: the Digital Services Act and the Digital Markets Act. This package will profoundly change the...more
On 1 October 2019, the Court of Justice of the European Union (CJEU) issued its long-awaited decision in the case Planet49 (Case C-673/17). The decision clarifies the requirements for valid cookie consent under Directive...more
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