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CNIL decides that the French subsidiary of a Chinese parent company is the data controller

October 31, 2023, , , , , ,
On 18 September 2023, the French Data Protection authority (CNIL) imposed an administrative fine of EUR 200,000 against SAF LOGISTICS, a French company that carries out air cargo activity from...
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Handle departing employee’s e-mails with care, Belgian DPA reiterates

May 18, 2022, , , , , , ,
On 1 April 2022, the Belgian DPA rendered a decision against an employer for restoring in an indiscriminate manner personal data on a former employee’s work laptop. The facts The...
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Spain: Amazon Road Transport fined for requesting criminal records from job candidates

February 25, 2022, , , , , , ,
On 11 February 2022, the Spanish Data Protection Authority (Agencia Española de Protección de Datos) fined Amazon Road Transport Spain, S.L. (“Amazon RT“) EUR 2,000,000, for including criminal record certificates...
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Belgium: Employee’s consent can be a valid ground for processing

December 16, 2020, , , , ,
On 9 November 2020 Belgian Data Protection Authority (“APD“) rendered a decision confirming that the employee’s consent can be a valid ground for processing under certain conditions. The decision by...
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Effort to place responsibility on the data processor does not impress Garante

November 9, 2020, , , , , , , ,
On 17 September 2020, Italian data protection authority (Garante) rendered two related decisions, one against a hospital in Naples, and the other against an IT company, concerning a data breach which...
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Garante: Employers, deactivate e-mail account of the departing employees

October 26, 2020, , , , ,
If employers want to be compliant with GDPR, what should they do with employee’s corporate e-mail account after termination of his employment? Italian supervisory authority’s decision of 2 July 2020,...
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Fingerprints cannot be used for recording working hours, German court says

September 16, 2020, , , , ,
An appellate labour court in Germany rendered a decision on 4 June 2020, stating that a biometric time recording system, in the employment context, as a rule is not lawful....
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CNIL’s primer on video surveillance at work: Uniontrad Company decision

July 1, 2019, , , , ,
On 18 June 2019, the French data protection supervisory authority (CNIL) issued a decision on video surveillance at work. The Uniontrad Company case demonstrates that a law specifically regulating the...
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Distinction between privacy and data protection in ECtHR’s Montenegro case

February 13, 2018, , , ,
A recent judgment by the European Court of Human Rights (ECtHR) – Antovic and Mirkovic v. Montenegro (28 November 2017) – attracted a fair amount of commentary that focused on...
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Strasbourg Court enhances employer’s obligation to respect privacy

September 19, 2017, , ,
On 5 September 2017, the Grand Chamber of the European Court of Human Rights issued its judgment in the case of Bărbulescu v. Romania (Application no. 61496/08). The judgment will have an...
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