๐ธ๐ช DPA IMY concludes in a new legal opinion that they can indeed investigate highly privacy-invasive sites like Mrkoll and Lexbase! A key step forward! ๐ฅณ (Let's just hope it'll become a privacy win!)
Controversial AG Opinion concluding that sports are outside GDPR's scope, with odd logic on Art. 9, stays unclear as the CJEU finds the referring body lacks the needed independence to be a 'court or tribunal', making their preliminary ruling request inadmissible. ๐
The ๐ณ๐ฑ DPA issued new guidelines for the private sector (public sector one coming) on web scraping, stating it's "almost always illegal", and reiterates their highly controversial claim that โ You can't rely on legitimate interest for purely commercial reasons... ๐คจ
A strange occurance in my RSS feed today as this order from November 2023 suddenly appeared, giving the EDPB the right to intervene in the infamous SRB v EDPS case. So, not sure this is news. ๐คท๐ปโโ๏ธ
CJEU holds that Member States may force ISPs to retain IP addresses, in a general and indiscriminate manner, to combate criminal offences in general. ๐คจ
๐ฎ CJEU on access to phone records related to crime + clarifies conditions for transmitting and using evidence in criminal cases with a cross-border dimension.