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Belgium: Belgian DPA imposes a EUR600,000 fine, its highest fine ever, on Google Belgium for non-compliance with right to be forgotten

DLA Piper Privacy Matters

The case against Google Belgium SA was initiated by a complaint filed with the Belgian DPA by a Belgian resident on 12 august 2019. The complainant, an executive at an unnamed large company, had requested the removal of 12 URLs which he considered to be harmful to his reputation. The case against Google Belgium. The decision.

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Predictions 2016: Apple, Tesla, Google, Medium, Adtech, Microsoft, IoT, and Business on a Mission

John Battelle's Searchblog

” Examples include sensors in jet engines (and just about everything else of industrial significance), exercise and health wearables , and home automation , to name but a few. Predictions 2011. 2011: How I Did. Predictions 2010. 2010: How I Did. Sports unbundle. That’s pretty much it. 2015: How I Did.

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The debate on the Data Protection Bill in the House of Lords

Data Protector

The biggest changes since our debates on the Data Protection Act 1998, or even the early stages of the GDPR, which I was involved in as a Minister at the MoJ from 2010 to 2013, is that the threat to civil liberties and personal freedoms now comes not only from agencies of the state but from corporate power as well.

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