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The linguistics” – that’s what I said was intriguing about the AG Opinion in a GDPR class action case (Meta v BVV, CJEU case C-757/22) when Global Data Review asked me for a quote. This case deals with Art. 80(2) GDPR, which allows EU Member States to adopt (if they wish) laws to permit (consumer […]
Reading through the CNIL’s new decision against Yahoo on cookies brings back to mind a question that has stuck with me for well over a decade: what is the exact reasoning that has led many EU-based authorities to say that advertising cookies/etc. are not strictly necessary for the provision of a service, and why does […]
Interesting new CJEU judgment on “controllership” (but only limited considerations re “joint controllership”) and perhaps incidentally broadening the legal ground of “legal obligation” under the GDPR. The CJEU says that legal provisions can determine the purposes and means “at least implicitly”, which is not exactly what some authorities had considered previously. The context: the Moniteur […]
I’m seeing significant misinterpretations of the CJEU’s newest GDPR judgment. The CJEU *did not say* today that simply seeing information on a mobile app is processing of personal data. Instead, it said that *the process by which a COVID certificate is scanned by a device and then interpreted to reveal a green checkmark or a […]
After some initial thoughts on Tuesday, here is a slightly expanded analysis of the “contract” legal ground assessment by the CJEU in its new Meta judgment (C-252/21). Once again, I hope this ruling will not be misapplied in practice – and that controllers who build personalisation into a service for valid reasons are not forced […]
Objectively indispensable”, that’s how the CJEU describes the threshold for processing of personaldata to be necessary for performance (or conclusion) of a contract under Art. 6(1)(b) GDPR. In its new Meta judgment (case 252/21), the Court of Justice examined many points of law, but it may be useful to other organisations to look at paragraphs […]
