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Transnational collective actions for cross-border data protection violations

Federica Casarosa, European University Institute
PUBLISHED ON: 16 Sep 2020 DOI: 10.14763/2020.3.1498

Although the GDPR paves the way for a coordinated EU-wide legal action against data protection infringements, only a reform of private international law rules can enhance the opportunities of data subjects to enforce their rights.

Anchoring the need to revise cross-border access to e-evidence

Sergi Vazquez Maymir, Vrije Universiteit Brussel
PUBLISHED ON: 16 Sep 2020 DOI: 10.14763/2020.3.1495

The percentages and figures used in the impact assessment accompanying the European Commission’s e-evidence package strongly influence the analysis of the problem and limit the assessment of the problem of cross-border access to e-evidence to technical and efficiency considerations.

Data protection

Harnessing the collective potential of GDPR access rights: towards an ecology of transparency

René L. P. Mahieu, Delft University of Technology
Jef Ausloos, University of Amsterdam
PUBLISHED ON: 06 Jul 2020

The European Commission recently released its first review of two years of application of the General Data Protection Regulation (GDPR). René Mahieu and Jef Ausloos do not agree with the largely positive self-assessment and explain their main points of contention by summarising their own submission to the Commission.

Data protection

A new milestone for data protection in Brazil

Laura Schertel Mendes, Goethe-Universität Frankfurt am Main
Clara Iglesias Keller, Leibniz-Institute for Media Research/Hans-Bredow-Institut
PUBLISHED ON: 13 May 2020

As the Covid-19 pandemic expanded across the world, so did the debates on whether fighting this sanitary emergency would require the use of personal data, and on how that would impact pre-established data protection frameworks. In Brazil , these concerns first came to light with the announcement of agreements between government and telco companies

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