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Facebook case referred to the EU Court of Justice

10/05/2019

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

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.

The extraterritorial scope of the GDPR

The extraterritorial scope of the GDPR: Quo Vadis?

02/04/2019

On 23 November 2018 the European Data Protection Board (EDPB) published its ‘Guidelines on the territorial scope of the GDPR’.

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Official DPIA list of Belgian Data Protection Authority

01/04/2019

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

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

social media apps

Can a YouTuber qualify as “a journalist” under the GDPR?

20/02/2019

Journalists are, to a certain extent, exempted from the application of the GDPR. Should everybody who publishes messages on Facebook, tweets on twitter, photos on Instagram or videos on YouTube, be qualified as “a journalist”?

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Personal data can flow freely between the EU and Japan

24/01/2019

Timelex proudly assisted the European Commission with its assessment leading to the EU adequacy decision for Japan. The decision has a huge commercial impact for European and Japanese companies.

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10-step checklist for personal data breaches

23/01/2019

Organizations may incur very high fines for failure to comply with the obligation to report data breaches. Therefore, make sure that your organization is well prepared for a possible personal data breach.

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What to remember from Google's GDPR fine?

22/01/2019

The French supervisory authority has imposed a fine of no less than € 50 million on Google for infringing the GDPR. What should companies remember from this CNIL decision?

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