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After last week’s EU General Court judgment in the Irish DPC vs EDPB case, some claimed that this makes EDPB Guidelines and Opinions unassailable. (Yes, really.) That’s wrong. Let’s look at what the judgment means for the EDPB’s authority – and some issues it raises: 1/ Scope of EDPB binding decisions The judgment of the […]
Contextual ads > targeted ads”? Often this approach refers to one Dutch broadcaster’s (misinterpreted) story and mistaken assumptions that “contextual” means “no data”. Now for the opposite story from Belgium: the news website Tweakers tried an allegedly “tracking-free” contextual ad system since May 2022 but announced yesterday it was not economically viable and would be […]
One of the hot topics in onlineadvertising today is the Google Privacy Sandbox, especially given the phasing out of 3rd-party cookies in Chrome. For a discussion that will likely cover the practical implications and possible limitations (and perhaps less the legal aspects like ePrivacy and GDPR?), I cannot recommend enough the lineup of tomorrow’s discussion. […]
This op-ed was first published on EULawLive on 21 January 2025 and is now republished here, in accordance with the EULawLive guidelines & terms for guest authors. The header image is of course an easy pun about the implications of a broader application of judgment T-354/22 and how data subjects might be in a position […]
Fun 45min interview with Legal4Tech on the GDPR, data protection concerns and AI, the concept of personal data and more – with a short video excerpt here. Listen to the full podcast on Spotify or Apple Podcasts.Happy Data Protection Day! Thanks Rosalia Anna D’Agostino, Giacomo Amodio & Giacomo Di Gregorio for the chat.
Websites, web apps & cookies get a lot of attention, but the GDPR and ePrivacy rules also apply to other digital properties & technologies. To emphasise this, the CNIL published recommendations for mobile apps last September. During a free webinar on 3 February, Thomas Ghys and I will cover practical considerations relating to these recommendations, […]
If A pseudonymises personal data of person Z and sends it to B, is it personal data from B’s perspective, even if B is never allowed to get additional information [=AddInfo] allowing the identification of Z? The EDPB suggests “yes” in its latest guidance on pseudonymisation. Based on the definition of pseudonymisation under the GDPR, […]
IAB Europe has just published useful insights from many trade associations into the economic and legal rationale behind “consent or pay” models. These insights are a great summary of the key benefits and conditions under which these business models make sense, as well as related legal considerations. I know this well, as I have been […]
In London on 12 March for the IAPP DPI25 conference? Come to our great panel (ICO rep, UK lawyer, US lawyer & me) on “PETs, AI and Cookieless: Framework for New Adtech and Metrics Approaches”. It is quite the panel, with a super list of topics: Speakers:– Hannah Crowther (Partner for Data Protection & Privacy […]
Belgian DPA drops a bomb on a complaint filed by noyb.eu: in Belgium at least, says the BDPA, in order for noyb to have a legal interest in filing a complaint on behalf of data subjects, those data subjects cannot have been working for noyb at the time. The case in question concerned cookies and […]
