EDPB’s common sense approach to the GDPR’s territorial scope

EDPB has produced a detailed 23-page document that is both authoritative and full of common sense.

The guidelines start by treading into well-known territory: the “establishment criterion.” Following a principle that already existed under the 1995 Data Protection Directive, the GDPR will apply to the processing of personal data in the context of the activities of an establishment of a controller or a processor in the EU. So the EDPB relies on existing case law to consolidate its opinion on this criterion.

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