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Many Have It Wrong – Samples Do Contain Personal Data: The Data Protection Regulation as a Superior Framework to Protect Donor Interests in Biobanking and Genomic Research Vrije Universiteit Brussel
Genomic research relies on the availability of genomic data. Detached biological samples, stored in facilities known as biobanks, are the source of this data. Donors have interests in these samples. In particular, donors have interests in samples by virtue of the personal data they contain. In relation to this observation, this article puts forward three arguments. First: The current European legislative framework relating to samples is ...
Online price discrimination and personal data: A General Data Protection Regulation perspective KU Leuven
The General Data Protection Regulation (GDPR) contains various provisions with relevance to online price discrimination. This article, which analyses a number of essential elements on this junction, aims to provide a theory on whether, and, if so, how the GDPR affects price discrimination based on the processing of personal data. First, the contribution clarifies the concept of price discrimination, as well as its typology and relevance for big ...
The importance of privacy by design and data protection impact assessments in strengthening protection of childrenU+2019s personal data under the GDPR Universiteit Gent
How Uninformed is the Average Data Subject? A Quest for Benchmarks in EU Personal Data Protection Vrije Universiteit Brussel
Information obligations have always been crucial in personal data protection law. Reinforcing these obligations is one of the priorities of the legislative package introduced in 2012 by the European Commission to redefine the personal data protection legal landscape of the European Union (EU). Those responsible for processing personal data (the data controllers) must imperatively convey certain pieces of information to those whose data is ...
How uninformed is the average data subject? A quest for benchmarks in EU personal data protection Vrije Universiteit Brussel
Information obligations have always been crucial in personal data protection law. Re- inforcing these obligations is one of the priorities of the legislative package introduced in 2012 by the European Commission to redefine the personal data protection legal landscape of the European Union (EU). Those responsible for processing personal data (the data controllers) must imperatively convey certain pieces of information to those whose data are ...
The role of the data protection authorities in supervising police and criminal justice authorities processing personal data Vrije Universiteit Brussel
In this chapter, we focus on the role of supervisory authorities monitoring police and criminal justice authorities. This issue raises delicate questions, as the EU legislator was called upon to strike the right balance between diverse interests. In today’s context, no one can deny the importance of access and storage of data, as well as of cross-border data exchanges by police and judicial authorities for the prevention of and the fight against ...
Defining personal data transfers for the context of the General Data Protection Regulation Vrije Universiteit Brussel
On 18 November 2021, the European Data Protection Board (EDPB) published a piece of guidance that was supposed to clarify one of the ultimate mysteries of the General Data Protection Regulation (GDPR), namely the definition of international personal data transfers. The EDPB does clarify that for the assessment of an act as a transfer, the actors involved are important, thus it is only a transfer if data are exchanged between a (joint) controller ...
The Social Construction of Personal Data Protection in Smart Cities Vrije Universiteit Brussel
Cities are striving to become ‘smart’. What exactly a smart city signifies is debatable, but the designation most often refers to an intensification of ICT use and data use by local authorities, and seeking closer collaboration with other stakeholders. Whereas the concept of the smart city is not clearly delineated, the same can be said for the requirements for personal data protection under the GDPR. In this paper, we apply a social ...