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Article 29 Working Party adopts guidelines on the implementation on the Right to be Forgotten judgment of the CJEU

By Patrick Van Eecke & Julie De Bruyn

The Article 29 Working Party, the European data protection advisory body existing of representatives of the national data protection authorities of the EU Member States, announced yesterday to have adopted guidelines – for national data protection authorities – on the implementation of the Court of Justice’s ruling on the right to be forgotten.…

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By Patrick Van Eecke and Antoon Dierick

Almost five months after federal parliamentary elections took place, the negotiators from the four political parties around the negotiating table (Flemish parties NVA, CD&V and Open VLD and Walloon party MR) reached a coalition agreement which contains quite a few interesting policy initiatives…
Continue Reading BELGIUM: Belgian government’s new focus on privacy and technology laws

By Patrick Van Eecke and Elisabeth Verbrugge

Working Party 29 issued a working document on model clauses for personal data transfers from EU data processors to non-EU sub-processors. This is an important step towards creating a more comprehensive framework for contract-based personal data transfers outside the EEA.

European data…
Continue Reading EU – International data transfers from processors to processors made easier, good news for cloud providers and outsourcers

By Patrick Van Eecke and Antoon Dierick – DLA Piper Brussels;     

On November 6, a Paris Court ordered Google to filter out hyperlinks to images of former F1 boss Max Mosley in an allegedly Nazi-themed sadomasochistic orgy. (TGI Paris, 17e ch., 6 novembre 2013, RG 11/07970, Max Mosley c. Google Inc et Google France)

This judgement is situated on the crossroads of privacy rights, freedom of information and cooperation duties of internet intermediaries. A soon to be expected European Court of Justice judgement in a similar case may bring more clarity in finding the right balance between these rights and values.…

Continue Reading Europe: Mosley v Google – game, set but not match yet.

DLA Piper lawyers had the opportunity to review the European Parliament draft report on the Data Protection Regulation proposal that will be presented by Rapporteur Albrecht to the European Parliament on 10 January 2013. The proposed legislative changes  would impose significant additional requirements on entities that collect data about EU…
Continue Reading European Parliament Seeks to Broaden the Scope of the Draft Data Protection Regulation and Strengthen its Application