Exam scripts are personal data, says the AG, when the purpose it is to identify and record the performance of a particular individual; but that doesn’t mean you can go back and change your answers! On 20 July 2017, the EU Court of Justice’s Advocate General (AG) Kokott delivered her opinion in Peter Nowak v … Continue reading
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Access to data / Data protection / General Data Protection Regulation / Law enforcement / Legitimate interest / Personal data / sensitive data
CJEU Advocate General Opines on the ‘Legitimate Interest’ Concept
But how exactly does EU law achieve the weighing of competing legitimate interests and rights in a data protection law context? I’ve previously written (here) about the concept of legitimate interest under data protection law and how it has captured the attention of data protection agencies, as well as the EU institutions in informing the … Continue reading
Facebook needs to re-revise its privacy policy says recent Belgian report.
On January 30th 2015, Facebook revised its Data Use Policy (DUP) and Terms of Services. At the request of the Belgian Privacy Commission, ICRI/CIR (KU Leuven) and iMinds-SMIT (Vrije Universiteit Brussel) have conducted an extensive analysis of the revisions. So what does the current version of their report (dated 23rd February 2015) find? Emma Cradock, … Continue reading