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1 year GDPR

One year GDPR: an overview of enforcement, warnings and fines

19/06/2019
Privacy & data protection

About a year ago, on 25 May 2018, the General Data Protection Regulation (GDPR) became applicable. Today, one year later, we draw up a balance sheet of the enforcement actions taken by the supervisory authorities across the EU.

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First GDPR fine in Belgium: € 2000 imposed on a mayor

03/06/2019
Privacy & data protection

The previous statement by the new Chairman of the Belgian Data Protection Authority (DPA) affirming that the DPA will step up a gear in 2019 to ensure compliance with the GDPR has in the meantime been reinforced by the imposition of the first GDPR fine in Belgium.

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The new NIS Act: what do you need to do?

20/05/2019
Privacy & data protection

The EU Network and Information Security (NIS) Directive has been implemented in Belgian law. What does it mean for you?

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Right to be forgotten in personal insurance

16/05/2019
Privacy & data protection

Early April, a variant of the right to be forgotten was introduced in insurance law. This was achieved by means of the Act of 4 April 2019 amending the Act of 4 April 2014 on insurances, which introduces a right to be forgotten for certain personal insurances.

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Facebook case referred to the EU Court of Justice

10/05/2019
Privacy & data protection

On 8 May 2019, the Court of Appeal of Brussels ruled in the case of the Belgian Data Protection Authority v. Facebook following the pleadings of 27 and 28 March 2019.

EU Data Controller Processor

Should the main establishment of a controller in the Union always be a controller as well?

06/05/2019
Privacy & data protection

International companies headquartered outside the EU but established in several European Member States are facing the question how to determine their main establishment in the Union. In the Guidelines for identifying a controller or processor’s lead supervisory authority (WP 244 of the Article 29 Working Party, endorsed by the EDPB) this question has been left open to a large extent.

The extraterritorial scope of the GDPR

The extraterritorial scope of the GDPR: Quo Vadis?

02/04/2019
Privacy & data protection

On 23 November 2018 the European Data Protection Board (EDPB) published its ‘Guidelines on the territorial scope of the GDPR’. With these guidelines, the EDPB responds to many doubts of companies located outside the EU as to whether they are subject to the General Data Protection Regulation (GDPR) as well.

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Official DPIA list of Belgian Data Protection Authority

01/04/2019
Privacy & data protection

The official final DPIA list of the Belgian Data Protection Authority has been published in the Belgian Official Journal on 22 March 2019 and has entered into force on 1 April 2019.

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AG: online chatbox and callback system can replace fax and telephone

11/03/2019
Privacy & data protection

If you place an order on the Amazon e-commerce platform, you will not receive a fax number prior to ordering and the phone number is difficult to access. According to a German consumer organisation, this is in breach of the information obligations under German consumer legislation

Data processing

Belgian DPA clarifies the concepts of controller and processor

06/03/2019
Privacy & data protection

The (Belgian) Data Protection Authority (DPA) recently published an opinion on the concepts of data controller and data processor.

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