data concerning health; or
sex life and sexual orientation. Genetic data is defined in Article 4(13) of the GDPR
as: personal data relating to the inherited or acquired
genetic characteristics of a natural person which give unique
information about the physiology or the health of that natural
person and which result, in particular, from an analysis of a
biological sample from the natural person in question. Biometric data is defined in Article 4(14) of the GDPR
as: personal data resulting from specific technical
processing relating to the physical, physiological or behavioural
characteristics of a natural person, which allow or confirm the
unique identification of that natural person, such as facial images
After a first complaint against the Luxembourg Business Registers, transferred to the Court of Justice of the European Union (CJEU), lawyer Filippo Noseda asked the CNPD to act to protect the privacy of his customers. A lawyer at London-based Mishcon de Reya firm explains why he believes the register of beneficial owners violates a fundamental EU right.
Does transparency impose itself on the fundamental rights of the European Union, defined in 1950 and engraved in marble since 2009, or not? The right to privacy is set out in Article 7, and the right to the protection of personal data is set out in Article 8 of the European Charter.
EU’s top privacy regulator urges ban on surveillance-based ad targeting
The European Union’s lead data protection supervisor has recommended that a ban on targeted advertising based on tracking internet users’ digital activity be included in a major reform of digital services rules which aims to increase operators’ accountability, among other key goals.
The European Data Protection Supervisor (EDPS), Wojciech Wiewiorówski, made the call for a ban on surveillance-based targeted ads in reference to the Commission’s Digital Services Act (DSA) following a request for consultation from EU lawmakers.
The DSA legislative proposal was introduced in December, alongside the Digital Markets Act (DMA) kicking off the EU’s (often lengthy) co-legislative process, which involves debate and negotiations in the European Parliament and Council on amendments before any final text can be agreed for approval. This means battle lines are being drawn to try to influence the final shape
2020: a year to remember for myriad of reasons! One being the ‘Will we? Won’t we have a deal?’ nature of the Brexit negotiations. The UK formally left the EU on 31 January 2020 and.
Europol, the EU’s law enforcement agency, has defended its record in using large datasets for criminal investigations while putting forward an ‘action plan’, seen by EURACTIV, to appease concerns raised over the agency’s ‘illegal’ data use by the EU’s data protection watchdog.
The European Data Protection Supervisor (EDPS) slammed Europol in September after a probe had unearthed evidence of national law enforcement agencies increasingly transmitting ‘large datasets’ to Europol, as opposed to ‘targeted data’ proportionate to specific criminal investigations, thereby breaching standards set out in the 2016 Europol Regulation.
Moreover, the EDPS had found that as part of the processing of such large datasets, the personal data of individuals who were not in any way connected to criminal activities was also going through Europol’s system.