In a live EenVandaag television interview, Vonne Laan discusses TikTok's USD 400 million US privacy settlement and explains why it is not necessarily good news for Dutch claimants.
Eliëtte Vaal gave a workshop session on workplace privacy and employee monitoring, both at the workplace and remote, during the practical day of the Outvie Data Protection and Privacy Conference on 6 and 7 October in Amsterdam. (Dutch only)
On 3 October 2022, Kimberly Friesen once again provided the introductory lecture on privacy law for the students of the University of Applied Sciences Windesheim.
On 30 September 2022, Kimberly Friesen was invited to speak in Brussels at a conference about Law versus Digital Technologies organized by the International Association of Lawyers.
Eliëtte Vaal will give a joint master class on international data transfers during the first annual IAPP Data Protection Intensive Netherlands in The Hague on 8 June. This event will feature parallel sessions in English and Dutch.
Vonne Laan will moderate an IAPP KnowledgeNet virtual event on 21 April 2022, which will focus on the opportunities and challenges that come with class actions and the GDPR from a Dutch litigation perspective.
Eliëtte Vaal has been invited to speak at Emerce Digital Marketing Live!, an event for digital marketing and online media professionals in the Beurs van Berlage in Amsterdam on 2 June. Eliëtte will host a panel on the post-cookie era of online marketing.
The subject for this year's annual CPO Privacy Day Symposium on 25 May 2022 will be Algorithms and Artificial Intelligence. Vonne Laan of The Data Lawyers is invited as one of the speakers.
Eliëtte Vaal has been invited to speak during the seminar "Artificial Intelligence in Practice", organized by ITenRecht.nl in joint collaboration with DCSP Magazine, which will be held on 19 April 2022 (Dutch only).
Joep Bakker wrote a blog for Data&Privacyweb on a ruling by the District Court of Oost-Brabant (Rechtbank Oost-Brabant 12 December 2022, ECLI:NL:RBOBR:2022:5442) concerning a deletion request. (Dutch only)
On 28 January 2022, an IAPP KnowlegdeNet event on the investigation and enforcement practice of the Dutch Data Protection Authority was moderated by Vonne Laan.
The 10th annual edition of the IAPP Europe Data Protection Conference in Brussels featured a session with Eliëtte Vaal and Vonne Laan of The Data Lawyers, on the One-Stop-Shop Mechanism (OSS) under the GDPR. The application of the OSS in practice has been met with some resistance and its scope seems unclear. This session aimed to bring more conceptual clarity and practical guidance.
Vonne Laan was invited to speak at the annual CDPO topical affairs and networking day (CDPO Actualiteiten- en netwerkdag) for Dutch Certified Data Protection Officers on 5 November 2021 in Utrecht.
Data&Privacyweb celebrated the launch of their online bookshop by giving away free copies of the Boom Basics Privacy Law, authored by Vonne Laan of The Data Lawyers. The bookshop dedicates itself to offering the most exhaustive book collection available on privacy and IT to its customers.
The privacy rules on transfers of personal data have become stricter after the Schrems II ruling and the subsequent Recommendations by the European Data Protection Board (EDPB). Implementing these stricter rules in practice has turned out to be a complicated process for many organisations. However, as Kimberly Friesen explains in a recent blog for Data & Privacyweb, it seems unwise to not take any action. Several European supervisory authorities have already imposed fines for breaching these rules. (Dutch only)