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Auteur/autrice : Nicolas Roland
Offering WIFI to your customers in your premises ? Do you have to notify yourself as an operator to the Belgian Institute for Postal services and Telecommunications (BIPT)?
No, at least not anymore. Pursuant to Article 8 of the Act of 31 July 2017 containing various provisions relating to electronic communications that has been published in the Belgian Official Gazette of 12 September 2017 (the Act), such a notification is only required for publicly accessible ... Read More
Monitoring of an employee’s use of the Internet might violate his right to privacy if not properly done!
In its landmark decision of 5 September 2017 (Barbulescu v. Romania, 61496/08), the Grand Chamber of the European Court of Human Rights (ECHR) found that, in the case at stake and notwithstanding their margin of appreciation, the national courts failed to strike a fair balance between the competing ... Read More
Sports clubs, youth organizations, schools,… you are also obliged to comply with the GDPR !
You might think that data protection isn’t relevant to you and is for businesses. But you’d be wrong. Think about the data you do hold which could include members' names, contact details, financial information,… In less than a year, on 25 May 2018, the EU General Data Protection Regulation ... Read More
Que deviennent mes données virtuelles à mon décès ?
Ces données constituent le plus souvent des « données à caractère personnel », c’est-à-dire permettant d’identifier (in)directement une personne physique, tels qu’un nom ou un identifiant en ligne. Il suffit de songer aux profils affichés sur les réseaux sociaux ainsi qu’au ... Read More
HR managers: have you started your GDPR journey yet?
In less than 10 months, the EU General Data Protection Regulation (GDPR) will enter into force and, yes, you are part of the journey to compliance. Why ? Because you have access to a wide range of personal data and the GDPR places greater obligations on employers to inform employees how their ... Read More
Ensure at all times that your data processor implements appropriate technical and organizational measures; otherwise, you might be fined!
On 18 July 2017, the French Data Protection Authority (CNIL) imposed a fine of €40,000 on a rental car company for negligence. The latter did not sufficiently monitor the activities of its data processor. What happened? Personal data of tens thousands of members of its loyalty program (e.g. ... Read More
For your (privacy) records: who, what and how?
On 14 June 2017, the Belgian Privacy Commission published a recommendation (06/2017) on the records of processing activities by data controllers and processors, when required to do so under Article 30 of the GDPR (the “Recommendation”). As a reminder, the obligation to maintain - and update - ... Read More
Processing employee data in the digital era must be done properly
On 8 June 2017, the Article 29 Working Party, the independent EU advisory body on data protection and privacy, published an opinion (02/2017) on data processing at work (the “Opinion”). The upcoming entry into force of the GDPR has been taken into account and reference is also made to its ... Read More