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Dutch DPA Issues Record Fine for Violating GDPR Data Subject Rights

HL Chronicle of Data Protection

Under the European Union’s General Data Protection Regulation (GDPR), individuals have the right to access personal data collected about them, and to exercise that right easily and at reasonable intervals. The Dutch Data Protection Authority received complaints about the high standard BKR had set for accessing personal data.

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EDPB publishes guidance on calculating GDPR fines

Data Protection Report

On 12 May 2022 EDPB adopted Guidelines on the calculation of administrative fines (the Guidelines ). The Guidelines supplement the Article 29 Working Party’s Guidelines on the application and setting of administrative fines ( WP253 ) adopted in October 2017 and recommends that the two are read together. 2) Seriousness of infringement.

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EU Council Agrees on Proposed ePrivacy Regulation

Data Matters

The first draft of the ePrivacy Regulation was approved by the European Commission in 2017 and has since been under discussion in the Council. The GDPR also supplements the ePrivacy rules on the protection of personal data. Organizations subject to the ePrivacy Regulation on a purely extraterritorial basis (i.e.,

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FRANCE: ONE MORE STEP TO ENSURE CONSISTENCY OF THE NEW FRENCH DATA PROTECTION LAW

DLA Piper Privacy Matters

On 12 December 2018, the French Government issued an ordinance [1] finalizing, at the legislative level [2] , the alignment of the French Data Protection Law (“FDPL”) with the General Data Protection Regulation [3] (“GDPR”) and the Directive 2016/680 [4]. Following-up the adoption of the GDPR, the French Law No.

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BELGIUM: NEW DATA PROTECTION COMMISSIONER

DLA Piper Privacy Matters

For this reason, it was decided that the members of the former Belgian Privacy Commission would perform the tasks and exercise the power of the BDPA on an interim basis during this transitional period. Currently, Mrs Dereppe is the Advisor to the State Secretary for Privacy and responsible for the Belgian implementation of the GDPR.

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EUROPE: Article 29 Working Party publish draft Guidelines on Transparency

DLA Piper Privacy Matters

On 12 December 2017, the Article 29 Working Party (“WP29”) published draft guidance on the obligation of transparency , to be found here. An important topic, as transparency is intrinsically linked to fairness and the newly introduced principle of accountability under the GDPR. 5(1)(a) GDPR).

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Insights about the first five years of Right to be Forgotten requests at Google

Elie

By December 2017, with three full years of carefully categorised data, we had the means to deliver an improved transparency dashboard — which we. For example, as can be seen in the chart, French Internet users requested on average 12 URL delistings per 1,000 users, whereas in Italy there were 7 such requests, and in Greece only 3.

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