Belgian Constitutional Court Invalidates Enforcement Provisions of Data Protection Law
Belgian Constitutional Court overturned a provision in the nation’s data protection law that inhibited parties from challenging DPA’s decisions.
Court cases
Facebook data-scraping breach triggers GDPR enforcement lawsuit in Ireland
Meta and its lead data protection regulator in the European Union are facing an interesting legal challenge over a major data-scraping breach and GDPR enforcement of it.
Search engines must remove manifestly inaccurate information, court rules
Top EU court decided that search engine must de-list information that is proved as manifestly inaccurate.
EU court rules Airbnb must provide rental info to tax authorities
Short-term accommodation services company Airbnb must provide information in rental contracts to tax authorities and withhold tax under a national regime.
EDPB adopts statement on CJEU PNR judgment
EDPB adopted a statement on the recent judgment C-817/19 of the CJEU on the use of passenger name record data.
Italian Supreme Court Grants Global Delisting Order Under National Law
The Italian Supreme Court held that an Italian court or competent data protection authority has jurisdiction to issue a global delisting order.
CJEU Invalidates Public Anti-Money Laundering Registers on Privacy Grounds
The Court found that while deterring money laundering was a valid objective, making data available to everyone was neither a necessary nor proportionate.
EU privacy regulator steps in to restrict Meta’s advertising practices
Ireland’s data watchdog now has one month to adopt the EU’s decision, which could impact Meta’s targeted advertising policies in Europe.
Apple Faces Critics Over Its Privacy Policies
Developers claimed that Apple was tracking users’ every tap on the App Store, with no way of disabling the function.
Meta’s surveillance biz model targeted in UK ‘right to object’ GDPR lawsuit
Meta’s surveillance business model is facing an interesting legal challenge in the U.K.
Swedish court confirms that authority must investigate complaints
The Stockholm administrative court held that a complainant under Article 77 GDPR has the right to request a decision from the Swedish DPA after six months.
Rights holders can’t require ISPs to send warnings to users
A Dutch Court of Appeal held that an Internet service provider could not be mandated to link IP addresses with user data to send them warnings.