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NIS2 vs GDPR: fines/injunctions in Belgium to be challenged before different courts? While the Belgian legislator has gradually been entrusting one single, specialised court with highly regulatory cases (essentially regarding telecom rules, financial services rules and data protection rules), it appears for now *not* to have chosen to entrust that same court, the Belgian Market […]
Amusing settlement decision by the Belgian DPA published yesterday: 500 EUR & 250 EUR respectively, plus adaptations to policies and procedures, so that when people book a table in a given restaurant by phone their data isn’t included automatically in a third-party table booking system and then used to send commercial e-mails. The lesson? If […]
The European Commission’s announcement that it will consider simplifying regulatory regimes, notably in relation to data and technology, seems to open Pandora’s box. Is it a chance to draw lessons from what works well and what works less well? In this series on “Better Regulation” in relation to the digital economy, I will be exploring […]
Fines aren’t the only possible sanction in case of an infringement of data protection rules – prison is also a possibility in certain countries. That’s exactly the outcome of a case in France, where a former head of HR received a six-month (suspended) prison sentence yesterday. In that case, the person in question had created […]
