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Yesterday the European Commission published the third annual review on the functioning of the EU-U.S. Privacy Shield, as a result of the ongoing dialogue between both administrations and high-level meetings held in Washington D.C. on 12-13 September 2019. Although the report is generally positive about the implementation of the Privacy Shield in the U.S., it points out several issues that remain...
Last week the European Court of Human Rights delivered a Grand Chamber ruling on the protection of workers subject to video surveillance at work. The case raises an important issue in the field of industrial relations, but also in the protection of privacy at the workplace. The decision is even more relevant because the Grand Chamber overruled a prior chamber judgment in the same case and...
Yesterday, in the case of Glawischnig-Piesczek, the Court of Justice ruled that the e-commerce Directive does not preclude Member States from ordering a host provider to remove unlawful information which it stores, as well as identical information of the kind. This is a heavy burden that will fall on online service providers, particularly information or social platforms. The case concerned...
The judgment of the Court of Justice in case C-507/17 Google v CNIL addresses the territorial scope of the ‘right to be forgotten’ (RTBF). In its earlier landmark ruling Google Spain, the Court held that search engine operators may be obliged to de-reference personal data, removing them from the results returned by the search engine. However, neither the Court in Google Spain nor the EU...