Data protection and digital competition
by Ian Brown, Douwe Korff and friends
A note on illegal mass surveillance and bulk data data mining by Europol and the EU Member States, following the European Data Protection Supervisor’s order that Europol delete data held in its databases on individuals with no established link to a criminal activity.
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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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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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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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Lisbon’s mayor, Fernando Medina, has faced severe criticism since his officials sent information about organisers of an anti-Kremlin demonstration to the Russian embassy in Lisbon. Did the Lisbon council break the GDPR by doing so?
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Yesterday, I was sent the EU Commission final draft adequacy decisions on the UK. This post contains my first thoughts on the GDPR adequacy decision.
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Douwe Korff and I have now completed the second part of our analysis of the UK data protection legal framework,
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Thanks to Mediapart, my friend’s OCR software, and Google Translate (plus my tidying-up), here is an English version of the
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