Vincent Manancourt reports: A key European Union lawmaker has described meetings with the U.K. government over the country’s data protection reform plans as “appalling.” French MEP Gwendoline Delbos-Corfield said she felt “we were taken for fools” after Digital Minister Julia Lopez quit the meeting halfway through, U.K. Home Office ministers didn’t bother to meet them and the U.K.’s…
Dutch MEP says illegal spyware ‘a grave threat to democracy’
Jennifer Rankin reports: The senior MEP leading an inquiry into spyware has accused the EU commission of ignoring the “grave threat to democracy” posed by the use of the technology, and national governments of failing to cooperate with her investigation. The Dutch liberal MEP Sophie in ‘t Veld said there was illegal use of spyware…
CJEU Advocate General Issues Opinion on Non-Material Damages for GDPR Breach
Dan Cooper, Kristof Van Quathem, Anna Oberschelp de Meneses, and Evangelos Sakiotis of Covington and Burling write: On October 6, 2022, the Advocate General (“AG”) of the Court of Justice of the European Union (“CJEU”) released an opinion in case C-300/21 to the effect that a controller or processor’s non-compliance with the GDPR does not…
Indonesia Ratifies Country’s First Comprehensive Legal Framework for Personal Data Protection
As seen on Privacy & Information Security Law Blog: SHIFT Counsellors at Law reports from Indonesia that The People’s Representative Council of the Republic of Indonesia has ratified Indonesia’s draft law on personal data protection. The draft law came into effect on October 17, 2022. The law, which is partly modeled on the EU General Data…