News and Research articles on Data controller

What does a recent decision by the European Union’s Court of Justice – ruling that IAB Europe is liable under the GDPR for a technical standard it wrote – mean for internet standard-setting organisations?

Data subjects as data controllers: a Fashion(able) concept?

Lilian Edwards, Newcastle University
Michèle Finck, Max Planck Institute for Innovation and Competition
Michael Veale, University College London
Nicolo Zingales, Tilburg University

PUBLISHED ON: 13 Jun 2019

Recent case-law of the European Court of Justice has substantially widened the notion of “data controller" in unclear and potentially onerous ways for a range of actors involved in personal data processing. This has worrying implications for data subjects who may be characterised as controllers, and for emergent decentralised and privacy protective technologies.