Erik Valgaeren addressed the European Lawyers Forum in New York on the challenges and opportunities offered by the GDPR.

22.08.2019 BE law

’I want my data!’- Recent Developments in the Right to Access One’s Personal Data

Articles - The Belgian Data Protection Authority has recently adopted a broad view of the right to access one's personal data.

Team: Erik Valgaeren, Cyril Fischer

13.08.2019 BE law

Charlotte Conings has contributed to "Sweetie 2.0 - Using Artificial Intelligence to Fight Webcam Child Sex Tourism".

Articles - Charlotte Conings has contributed to the newly published "Sweetie 2.0 - Using Artificial Intelligence to Fight Webcam Child Sex Tourism".

Charlotte Conings Associate Brussels

19.08.2019 EU law

Enable “likes” and bear joint-controllership

Articles - The Court of Justice of the European Union recently ruled, in Case C-40/14 Fashion ID GmbH & Co. KG v Verbraucherzentrale NRW eV, that a website operator that features “Like” social-media plugin from Facebook likely qualifies as joint-controller with Facebook for its website visitors’ personal data collection and transmission to Facebook.

Carol Evrard Associate Brussels

08.08.2019 BE law

Regulating online platforms: piece of the puzzle

Articles - The new Regulation no. 2019/1150 of the European Parliament and of the Council of 20 June 2019 on promoting fairness and transparency for business users of online intermediation services, applicable as of 12 July 2020, is another piece of the puzzle regulating online platforms, this time focussing on the supply side of the platforms.

16.08.2019 EU law

GDPR meets corporate: (new) opportunities in an M&A case

Articles - The GDPR is everywhere, also in M&A cases. This article covers some practical points how to cope with GDPR during a deal from beginning to end.

Team: Erik Valgaeren, Sarah De Wulf

23.07.2019 LU law

The Revised CSSF Cloud Circular

Articles - On 27 March 2019, the Luxembourg supervisory authority for the financial sector (the Commission de surveillance du secteur financier or CSSF) published the long-awaited CSSF Circular 19/714 amending the CSSF Circular 17/654 on IT outsourcing relying on a cloud computing infrastructure (the Revised Cloud Circular).