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Digital Omnibus & GDPR: I like some things & dislike others about the proposal, but want to push back against claims that the “personal data” definition change will weaken protection. Of course some data protection supervisory authorities will say this (non-personal data generally falls outside of their remit), but is there truly weakening of protection […]
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 […]
When I pointed out issues with the DMA-GDPR Guidelines & resulting risks for *all* controllers (not just gatekeepers), the EDPB’s Gwendal Le Grand said something to the effect of “Don’t just post about it, submit a response”. So here we go, a copy of the response submitted yesterday to the public consultation by the Commission […]
Privacy-friendly analytics: dismissal of complaint for lack of evidence of processing of personal data. Reasoning of the Belgian DPA’s Inspection Service, quoting SRB and Breyer & confirming our arguments: 1. Insufficient evidence of a GDPR infringement The complainant did not provide concrete evidence demonstrating that his personal data had actually been processed by the provider (or […]
NIS2: Looking forward to giving a 2-day workshop with Chris A. De Vuyst from the Centre for Cybersecurity Belgium (= Belgian cybersecurity authority) next week, further to tremendous preparatory work by Chris and Val�ry Vander Geeten. [Thanks again Val�ry as well as the Data Protection Institute for thinking of me in this respect!] The Network […]
Two victories before the Belgian DPA this week: dismissal of a complaint against a privacy-friendly analytics provider (re ads & content) due to lack of evidence of processing of personal data (Breyer + SRB having an impact), and one decision confirming that where data is shared pre-GDPR, the controller using it post-GDPR is the one […]
Digital Omnibus & ePrivacy: good intentions but bad outcome. While I have praised the Commission’s attempt at GDPR-related pragmatism (though a good idea re special categories of data didn’t make it), I have remained silent on the ePrivacy front. There, the proposal is not good in my view. It would create an alternative to Art. […]
Do (re)watch our 53-minute civilised, proper debate on some of the key GDPR parts of the Digital Omnibus proposal! From the notion of “personal data” to special categories of data, AI development & training and even scientific research, a lot of ground covered from two perspectives. [I had a few awkward moments of the “unmute” […]
From fishing (instead of the GDPR) to a random “v” having appeared instead of a few words (a typo upon deletion?), the Commission’s GDPR & Data Act Omnibus feels like a rushed document. But what does it cover really? I’m focussing here on GDPR & ePrivacy: – Personal data definition: I like the idea of […]
If the European Commission unveils the (final) full Digital Omnibus proposals on 19 November, what will they cover? Many of us will discuss this during panels at the IAPP conference, but those might be gut reactions depending on the timing of the publication by the Commission. Glad to announce that I will be exchanging on […]