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✅ Council adopts new Regulation to speed-up handling of cross-border data protection complaints | Commission preliminarily finds TikTok and Meta in breach of DSA transparency obligations
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If a user creates a free account and gets access to articles, newsletters and the option to pay for further content, this falls under Art. 13(1) and (2) ePD as 'sale of a service' and 'direct marketing', and you don't need a legal basis under Art. 6 GDPR, in line with Art. 95 GDPR.
Sep & Oct minutes published | 4 Nov agenda: 🚨 Guidelines x 3: Political ads; Web scraping in GenAI context; AI Act ↔ EU data protection law interplay | Opinion on 🇧🇷 adequacy decision | New SPE project: Market study of data brokers
5 Nov: EDPB Opinion on 🇧🇷 Brazil draft adequacy decision – up next: Member States reps approval and EP "right of scrutiny" | 20 Oct: EDPB adopts opinions on UK GDPR & LED | 16 Sep: Republic of Korea EU adequacy decision.
Pseudonymised data isn’t always personal in every case to everyone – but measures must be effective. Comments are personal by nature – no need to assess content, purpose or effects. Whether a person can be identified must be assessed from the controller’s perspective, when collecting the data.