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Looking back + forwards, 4 big topics for me on LinkedIn in 2024 & likely still for 2025 are the following:– ePrivacy– “Consent or Pay”– AI & personal data– Cybersecurity The key ePrivacy topic was the European Data Protection Board’s guidelines on the technical scope of Art. 5(3) of the ePrivacy Directive – basically, “to […]
In case of a complaint before a supervisory authority, will a settlement to withdraw the complaint stop an investigation? The Belgian Data Protection Authority examined the issue in its newest decision: 1. Context and procedure: A data subject complaints before the BDPA because a (large) search engine provider (as controller) has rejected a delisting/erasure request […]
The European Data Protection Board is at it again: an urgent procedure has been launched to obtain clarification on “some of the core issues that arise in the context of processing for the purpose of developing and training an AI model”. The aim? To bring “some much needed clarity into this complex area”. Yet the […]
It’s finally open: public consultation by the European Commission on the GDPR. Privacy campaigners will be sure to respond – but will controllers & processors? This is your chance to submit comments on what works and what doesn’t. Whether you see weaknesses in the way in which the DPO role is structured (I know this […]
Just over two weeks to go to comment on the extremely extensive ePrivacy guidelines of the EDPB, now covering pretty much any interaction with the Internet or a computer. Working on one anonymised response in particular to integrate concerns of certain organisations, I wonder once more why the EDPB did not seek to better justify […]
