Data protection and digital competition
by Ian Brown and Douwe Korff
Israel is in the process of updating its Privacy Protection Act. At the request of the European Middle East Project, I have updated my opinion on the adequacy in EU terms of the amended law.
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An update on the progress of the EU’s Digital Markets Act, now approved by the Council of Ministers and in heavily-amended form by the European Parliament on 15 December.
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In Case-817/19, Belgium’s Constitutional Court has asked the EU Court of Justice whether the PNR Directive (2016/681) is compatible with the Charter of Fundamental Rights. On the basis of this detailed legal opinion, the CJEU should declare the Directive (like the Data Retention Directive) to be fundamentally in breach of the Charter.
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Just-published draft guidelines for consultation from China’s State Administration for Market Regulation (SAMR), translated by Microsoft.
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First in a series of interoperability canards (‘an unfounded rumour or story’, from the French for duck ?).
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A Brussels friend shared this response from the European Commission to the Parliament, regarding its resolution on UK adequacy. My comments are interspersed.
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Comments on Omer Tene’s quick notes on the UK GDPR reform consultation, focusing mainly on the implications for data transfers and more in particular for onward transfers of personal data first transferred from the EU/EEA to the UK under the recently adopted EU Commission GDPR adequacy decision on the UK.
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I have been thinking further about the implications in terms of the GDPR of undue access to personal data on EU persons (and others) by EU Member States’ intelligence agencies. I believe that the Court’s recognition of the regrettable “hole” in the Treaties need not be the end in this regard. In this draft paper, I discuss my line of reasoning.
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This opinion, prepared for the European Middle East Project, seeks to contribute to discussions about the future of personal data flows between the EU and Israel and the Occupied Territories (OTs).
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Delighted to see the European Parliament has published our new study on exchanges of personal data after the Schrems II judgment after several months of research. Our key findings are below, but there is a wealth of information in the 120 pages of the report!
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