Key developments
- ⚖️ The Court of Justice of the European Union (CJEU) decides in
- Land Hessen, C‑272/19, 9 July 2020.
- Facebook Ireland and Schrems, C-311/18, 16 July 2000 (invalidating the adequacy decision related to the EU-U.S. Privacy Shield);
- La Quadrature du Net and Others, C-511/18, C-512/18 and C-520/18, 6 October 2020.
- Privacy International, C-623/17, 6 October 2020;
- État luxembourgeois (Droit de recours contre une demande d’information en matière fiscale), C-245/19 & C-246/19, 6 October 2020.
- The Covid-19 pandemic triggers reactions from a variety of actors. On 16 March 2020, the Chair of the European Data Protection Board (EDPB) issues a statement. On 30 March 2020, the Chair of the Committee of Convention 108 and the Data Protection Commissioner of the Council of Europe also issue a statement.
- 🛹 The European Data Protection Board (EDPB) adopts:
- 🇧🇷 Brazil adopts the Lei Geral de Proteção de Dados Pessoais (LGPD) (Lei 13709/2018).
Also this year
- 🇪🇺 European Commission, Data protection as a pillar of citizens’ empowerment and the EU’s approach to the digital transition – two years of application of the General Data Protection Regulation, COM(2020) 264 final, 24.6.2020.
- ⚖️ The European Court of Human Rights (ECtHR) decides in Breyer v Germany, on 30 January 2020, and in Buturugā v Romania, on 11 February 2020.
- On 23 July 2020, the EDBP publishes Frequently Asked Questions on the judgment of the Court of Justice of the European Union in Case C-311/18 – Data Protection Commissioner v Facebook Ireland Ltd and Maximillian Schrems.
Literature
- Angiolini, Chiara (2020), Lo statuto dei dati personali: Uno studio a partire dalla nozione di bene, Giappichelli.
- Ausloos, Jef (2020), The Right to Erasure in EU Data Protection Law, Oxford University Press.
- Bioni, Bruno Ricardo, et al. (2020), ‘A Landmark Ruling from the Brazilian Supreme Court: Data Protection as an Autonomous Fundamental Right and Informational Due Process‘, European Data Protection Law Review (EDPL) 6(4), 615-624.
- Bunnenberg, Jan Niklas (2020), Privates Datenschutzrecht: Über Privatautonomie im Datenschutzrecht – unter besonderer Berücksichtigung der Einwilligung und ihrer vertraglichen Kopplung nach Art. 7 Abs. 4 DS-GVO, Nomos.
- Burdon, Mark (2020), Digital Data Collection and Information Privacy Law, Cambridge University Press.
- Cameron, Julie (2020), ‘History of the Australian Privacy Charter Council’, International Privacy and Data Protection Law Monographs.
- Çapkurt, F. (2020), ‘Het bestuursrecht en gegevensbeschermingsrecht: de ontmoeting van twee rechtsgebieden in historisch perspectief‘, Rechtsgeleerd Magazijn Themis 2020, 4,181-194.
- Coghlan, Niall and Marc Steiert (eds.) (2020/2021),The Charter of Fundamental Rights of the European Union: The travaux préparatoires and selected documents, European University Institute.
- Finck, Michèle, and Frank Pallas (2020), ‘They who must not be identified—distinguishing personal from non-personal data under the GDPR‘, International Data Privacy Law, 10(1), 11–36.
- Forbrukerrådet (Norwegian Consumer Council) (2020), Out of control – How consumers are exploited by the online advertising industry.
- Frohman, Larry (2020), The Politics of Personal Information: Surveillance, Privacy, and Power in West Germany, Berghahn Books.
- Goodyear, Michael (2020), ‘Transfixed in the Camera’s Gaze: Foster v. Svenson and the Battle of Privacy and Modern Art‘, Harvard Journal of Sports and Entertainment Law 11(1), 41-72.
- Holvast, Jan (2020), Kroniek van de privacydiscussie: Nederland tot de jaren 90, Uitgeverij Paris.
- Kahler, Thomas (2020), Turning Point in Data Protection Law: Two years GDPR on DPOblog.eu, Nomos.
- Kuner, Christopher, Lee A. Bygrave, Christopher Docksey and Laura Drechsler (eds.) (2020), The EU General Data Protection Regulation (GDPR): A Commentary, Oxford University Press.
- Mitjans Serveto, Maria, ‘Exercising GDPR Data Subjects’ Rights: Empirical Research on the Right to Explanation of News Recommender Systems‘, European Data Protection Law Review 6(4), 593-601.
- Moura Vicente, Dário and Sofia de Vasconcelos Casimiro (2020), Data Protection in the Internet, Springer.
- Rossi, Julien (2020), Protection des données personnelles et droit à la vie privée ; enquête sur la notion controversée de “donnée à carctère personnel“.
- Skinner-Thompson, Scott (2020), Privacy at the Margins, Cambridge University Press.
- Tzanou, Maria (2020), ‘The Future of EU Data Privacy Law: Towards a More Egalitarian Data Privacy‘, Journal of International and Comparative Law 7(2), 449-470.
Music
- 🎵 Bell Towers ‘Privacy’.
- 🎵 Systemabsturz ‘Staatstrojaner‘. Watch the ‘No-Budget-Quarantäne-Video’ (YouTube).
In the media
- Dittrich, Monika, ‘Eine Idee wird 50: Wie in Hessen der Datenschutz erfunden wurde‘, Deutschlandfunk, 7 October 2020.
In memoriam
- Ruth Gavison (28 March 1945 – 15 August 2020): Professor of Law at the Hebrew University of Jerusalem. Active in privacy law discussions since the early 1970s, she completed her PhD thesis on ‘Privacy and its Legal Protection’ in 1975 at Oxford with H.L.A. Hart. See here profile on the The Shalvi/Hyman Encyclopedia of Jewish Women.
Gloria González Fuster 