Fox Rothschild LLP (JD Supra Belgium)
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Belgium: Public Health And Data Privacy Are Not Incompatible
Coronavirus and GDPR – the Belgian authority weighs in: •Public health is paramount and prevention and the right to privacy are not incompatible. •Follow the instructions of the competent authorities so that all measures taken are proportionate...
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Belgian Data Protection Authority Releases Enforcement Priorities
The Belgian data protection authority has published for public consultation its priorities for 2019-2025.
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Belgian DPA: Requiring Customers to Allow Their ID Cards To Be Scanned To Receive Loyalty Cards Violates GDPR
Asking to read an electronic ID card as a condition for the provision of a service (issuing a rewards/loyalty card) is disproportionate and in violation of GDPR, says the Belgian data protection authority. The company was fined €10,000.
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Belgian Data Protection Authority Weighs In On DPOs Deleting Data Subjects’ Personal Data
The Belgian Data Protection Authority holds that a Data Protection Officer (DPO) may not himself/herself delete personal information of a data subject. Doing so constitutes a violation of the General Data Protection Regulation’s prohibition of conflicts of interest for the DPO (Article 38(6) of GDPR).