Data Protection

Short Reads - Soeradj Ramsanjhal, Karlijn van den Heuvel, Djoe Kuils, Rogier Raas, Judica Krikke en Muriël Rosing hebben een reactie ingediend op het concept wetsvoorstel ‘Wet plan van aanpak witwassen’. Dit wetsvoorstel is 2 december 2019 in consultatie gegaan en bevat verschillende voorgestelde wijzigingen van de Wet ter voorkoming van witwassen en financieren van terrorisme en de Wet op de economische delicten. 

Speaking slot - The Dutch Privacy Law Association (Vereniging Privacy Recht) held its 10th annual conference on 2 December 2019. Judica Krikke and Jeroen Kortmann spoke about civil damages, collective actions & mass claims under the GDPR.

Speaking slot - Stibbe's TMT partner, Erik Valgaeren, chairs a session discussing the new legal challenges, created by the most recent technological developments in the field of software, data, online services and telecom, including 5G, pricing algorithms, platforms and data monetization. This session will take place on the 8th of November 2019 in Berlin.

Short Reads - Op 24 september 2019 zijn er vier moties in stemming gebracht én aangenomen door de Tweede Kamer. De moties hebben als gemeenschappelijke deler dat ze in het teken staan van de steeds groter wordende digitalisering bij de overheid. Het achterliggende doel van de moties is dat de burger voldoende beschermd moet worden tegen deze digitalisering.

Articles - As part of the New Deal for Consumers, aimed to strengthen EU consumer protection in light of the digital era, a new Directive 2019/2161 of 27 November 2019 has been adopted. The Directive contains modernised rules in view of digital market developments such as the rise in online platforms.

Roundtable - On the 21 November 2019, in our Brussels office, our TMT departement organizes a round table on smart contracts and its legal challenges. Can smart contracts truly live up to the expectations? Which challenges will we be facing while drafting and implementing smart contracts?

Articles - The second edition of the Virtual Currency Regulation Law Review is intended to provide a practical, business-focused analysis of recent legal and regulatory changes and developments, and of their effects, and to look forward at expected trends in the area of virtual currencies on a country-by-country basis.

Seminar - On October 25th at 9.30 am, we organize a seminar where we will discus the implications of a (no-deal) Brexit on data protection.  These issues affect all businesses interacting between UK and EEA (including EU) and which send or receive data to and from UK. We will highlight the main challenges both in the case of a hard Brexit on 31 October 2019 and in other scenarios. We will also offer guidelines to help your organisation mitigate the respective risks.