[Slide upload:] On Monday, at the invitation of the Belgian DPA’s Litigation Chamber, I spoke about key themes of the Litigation Chamber’s decisions over the past 5 years and about both the positive improvements in maturity of those decisions and the challenges resulting from the lack of appeals against certain decisions (leading to the creation of “precedents” that influence future cases without the fundamentals of those decisions ever being brought into question).
The key topics were e-mails (maintaining of ex-employee mailboxes + DSARs re e-mails), elections (+ the related point of fines), cookies, DPOs and the notion of “controller”.
We have uploaded an English translation of the slides I used in support of my presentation – obviously more than happy to explain these to (new or existing) clients:
https://lnkd.in/e7XwZvGq
(the references in the footer are to key decisions that illustrate the points highlighted in the slides)
Thanks to the Autorit� de protection des donn�es – Gegevensbeschermingsautoriteit for the invitation and the event, to Hielke Hijmans (for his leadership of the Litigation Chamber – and for giving us lawyers and our clients lots to talk about) and to my co-speakers:
– Anne-Marie Witters (President of the Market Court – usually I plead data protection appeal cases before her, so it was good to chat about things other than pending cases!),
– Elke Cloots (usually we defend opposite views, as she often acts on behalf of the Litigation Chamber in appeal cases),
– Yves Poullet (a member of the Litigation Chamber before whom I have pleaded),
– Brendan Van Alsenoy (whose contributions to both the Belgian DPA when he was there and now the EDPS – European Data Protection Supervisor are significant, both regarding the GDPR and newer legislation).
Pity the event could not be recorded in the end, but the audience was great, and so was the input of the various speakers.
Link to the slides in English: https://lnkd.in/e7XwZvGq
Link to the slides in French and Dutch: https://lnkd.in/eJC97wsT
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