GDPR

NETHERLANDS: Highest court side-steps determining whether legitimate interests may be purely commercial

By Richard van Schaik on July 28, 2022

Posted in Enforcement, General Data Protection Regulation

On 27 July 2022, the highest administrative court in the Netherlands, published its highly anticipated judgment involving the Dutch Data Protection Authority’s assessment of “legitimate interest” under Article 6(1)(f) GDPR.

It was expected that the court would provide some clarification on whether “purely commercial interests” can qualify as legitimate interests within the meaning…
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Hungary: Record GDPR fine by the Hungarian Data Protection Authority for the unlawful use of artificial intelligence

By Magda Zmorka on April 12, 2022

Posted in EU privacy, General Data Protection Regulation

Authors: Zoltán Kozma, Mark Almasy

The Hungarian Data Protection Authority (Nemzeti Adatvédelmi és Információszabadság Hatóság, NAIH) has recently published its annual report in which it presented a case where the Authority imposed the highest fine to date of ca. EUR 670,000 (HUF 250 million).

The case involved the personal data processing

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