Gloria González Fuster

Key developments

• 🇺🇸 In the United States, the Supreme Court overturns Roe v. Wade.
• ⚖️ The Court of Justice of the European Union (CJEU) decides in:
  • SIA ‘SS’ v Valsts ieņēmumu dienests (Processing for tax purposes), C‑175/20, 24 February 2022;
  • Autoriteit Persoonsgegevens, C‑245/20, 24 March 2022;
  • Commissioner of An Garda Síochána and Others, C‑140/20, 2 April 2022;
  • Meta Platforms Ireland, C-319/20, 28 April 2022;
  • Ligue des droits humains (PNR), C‑817/19, 21 June 2022;
  • Leistritz, C-534/20, 22 June 2022;
  • OT v Vyriausioji tarnybinės etikos komisija, C-184/20, 1 August 2022;
  • VD & SR, C-339/20 & C-397/20, 20 September 2022;
  • SpaceNet et Telekom Deutschland, C‑793/19 & C‑794/19, 22 September 2022;
  • Digi, C‑77/21, 20 October 2022;
  • Koalitsia ‘Demokratichna Bulgaria – Obedinenie’, C‑306/21, 20 October 2022;
  • Proximus, C-129/21, 27 October 2022;
  • Spetsializirana prokuratura () and à la localisation), C-350/21, 17 November 2022;
  • WM & Sovim SA v Luxembourg Business Registers, C‑37/20 & C‑601/20, 22 November 2022;
  • Google (Déréférencement d’un contenu prétendument inexact), C-460/20, 8 December 2022;
  • Orde van Vlaamse Balies and Others, C-694/20, 8 December 2022;
  • Inspektor v Inspektorata (Finalités du traitement de données – Enquête pénale), C-180/21, 8 December 2022.
• 🛹 The European Data Protection Board (EDPB) adopts:
  • Binding Decision 1/2022 on the dispute arisen on the draft decision of the French Supervisory Authority regarding Accor SA (Article 65 GDPR).
  • Binding Decision 2/2022 on the dispute arisen on the draft decision of the Irish Supervisory Authority regarding Meta Platforms Ireland Limited (Instagram) (Art. 65 GDPR), 28 July 2022.
  • Binding Decision 3/2022 on the dispute submitted by the Irish SA on Meta Platforms Ireland Limited and its Facebook service (Art. 65 GDPR), 5 December 2022.
  • Binding Decision 4/2022 on the dispute submitted by the Irish SA on Meta Platforms Ireland Limited and its Instagram service (Art. 65 GDPR), 5 December 2022.
  • Binding Decision 5/2022 on the dispute submitted by the Irish SA regarding WhatsApp Ireland Limited (Art. 65 GDPR), 5 December 2022.

Also this year

• 🇪🇺 The European Commission publishes:
  • Proposal for a Regulation of the European Parliament and of the Council on harmonised rules on fair access to and use of data (Data Act), COM(2022) 68 final, 23.2.2022.
  • First report on application and functioning of the Data Protection Law Enforcement Directive (EU) 2016/680 (‘LED’), COM(2022) 364 final, 25.7.2022.
  • First report on the application of the Data Protection Regulation for European Union institutions, bodies, offices and agencies (Regulation 2018/1725), COM(2022) 530, 14.10.2022.
• ⚖️ The European Court of Human Rights (ECtHR) decides in Ekimdzhiev and Others v Bulgaria, on 11 January 2022.

Watch

• 🎬 Machines in Flames (2022), by Andrew Culp and Thomas Dekeyser.

Literature

• Albers, Marion, and Ingo Wolfgang Sarlet (eds.) (2022), Personality and data protection rights on the Internet: Brazilian and German approaches, Springer.
• Allen, Anita L. (2022), ‘Dismantling the “Black Opticon”: Privacy, Race Equity, and Online Data-Protection Reform,’ Yale Law Journal Forum 131, 907-959.
• Bieker, Felix (2022), The Right to Data Protection: Individual and Structural Dimensions of Data Protection in EU Law, Springer Nature.
• Blum, Lucas Ben (2022), Der „bayerische Weg” in der Datenschutzaufsicht: Das „Trennungsmodell” als Grundlage für eine Zentralisierung der Datenschutzaufsicht im nicht-öffentlichen Bereich, Nomos.
• Custers, Bart, et al., (2022), ‘Quis custodiet ipsos custodes? Data protection in the judiciary in EU and EEA Member States‘, International Data Privacy Law, 12(2), 93–112.
• De Gregorio, Giovanni (2022), Digital Constitutionalism in Europe: Reframing Rights and Powers in the Algorithmic Society, Cambridge University Press.
• Dowd, Rebeka (2022), The Birth of Digital Human Rights: Digitized Data Governance as a Human Rights Issue in the EU, Springer.
• Gellman, Robert (2022), ‘Fair Information Practices: A Basic History – Version 2.22‘, SSRN.
• Guyan, Kevin (2022), Queer Data: Using Gender, Sex and Sexuality Data for Action, Bloomsbury Studies in Digital Cultures.
• Knijnenburg, Bart P. et al (eds.) (2022), Modern socio-technical perspectives on privacy, Springer.
• Kosta, Eleni, Ronald Leenes and Irene Kamara (eds.) (2022), Research Handbook on EU Data Protection Law, Edward Elgar.
• Lancieri, Filippo (2022), ‘Narrowing data protection’s enforcement gap‘, Maine Law Review 74, 15.
• Quintel, Teresa (2022), Data Protection, Migration and Border Control: The GDPR, the Law Enforcement Directive and Beyond, Bloomsbury Publishing.
• Rodríguez Pineau, Elena and Elisa Torralba Mendiola (eds.) (2022), La protección de las transmisiones de datos transfronterizas, Aranzadi.
• Roßnagel, Alexander (2022), ‘Schlusswort‘, Festakt „50 Jahre Datenschutz in Hessen“ am 6. Oktober 2022 im Hessischen Landtag.
• Rubinstein, Ira, and Peter Margulies (2022), ‘Risk and Rights in Transatlantic Data Transfers: EU Privacy Law, US Surveillance, and the Search for Common Ground.‘, Conn. L. Rev. 54, 391.
• Senigaglia, Roberto, Claudia Irti, and Alessandro Bernes (eds.) (2022), Privacy and Data Protection in Software Services, Springer.
• Vergnolle, Suzanne (2022), L’effectivité de la protection des personnes par le droit des données à caractère personnel, Larcier.
• Yeung, Karen (2022), ‘The New Public Analytics as an Emerging Paradigm in Public Sector Administration’, Tilburg Law Review 27(2), 1–32.

In memoriam

• David Flaherty (1940 – 2022). Information and Privacy Commissioner British Columbia, and author of significant contributions on the subject. Read: ‘A tribute to David Flaherty: Privacy scholar, regulator and consultant‘ by Colin Bennet; Bryant, Jennifer, ‘David Flaherty’s influence, death marks ‘chapter in modern privacy law’’ (IAPP News).

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