On July 14, 2020, the Litigation Chamber of the Belgian Data Protection Authority (the “Belgian DPA”) imposed a €600,000 fine on Google Belgium SA (“Google”) for non-compliance with the right to be forgotten.
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On January 10, 2019, Advocate General Szpunar of the Court of Justice of the European Union issued an Opinion in the case of Google v. CNIL, which is currently pending before the CJEU. In its Opinion, the Advocate General provided his views concerning the territorial scope of the right to be forgotten under the EU Data Protection Directive.
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On March 28, 2017, the French Data Protection Authority published its Annual Activity Report for 2016 and released its annual inspection program for 2017. The Report presents the main accomplishments in 2016 and highlights the diversified activity at both the national and EU level with the adoption of two major pieces of legislation.
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Hunton & Williams’ EU Privacy and Cybersecurity practice lawyers recently authored The Proposed EU General Data Protection Regulation – A guide for in-house lawyers, addressing the key impacts of the forthcoming changes to EU data protection law. This blog entry provides a link to download a copy of the Guide.
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