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Welcome to Data Protection Insider, your biweekly digest of the latest developments in EU data protection law. Each issue brings you insightful analysis of recent court rulings, legislative updates and regulatory changes that impact data protection across the European Union. Stay informed and deepen your understanding of the evolving data protection legal landscape with our biweekly updates.

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27. November 2025  |   by DPI Editorial Team

Data Protection Inside, Issue 144
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-CJEU Rules on Personal Data Processing by Online News Platforms- On 13th November, the CJEU handed down its verdict in the case of Inteligo Media SA v Autoritatea Naţională de Supraveghere a Prelucrării Datelor cu Caracter Personal (ANSPDCP). In terms of the facts, Inteligo is the publisher of an online news service. The company ‘introduced…a paid subscription system for part […]
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13. November 2025  |   by DPI Editorial Team

Data Protection Inside, Issue 143
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ECtHR: The Ukraine Failed to Protect Workplace Privacy On 6th November, the ECtHR ruled that the Ukrainian courts had not met their positive obligations to respect the applicant’s workplace privacy in relation to the surveillance of his mobile phone by his employer in Guyvan v Ukraine. As to the facts of the case, the applicant owned a mobile phone, which […]
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30. October 2025  |   by DPI Editorial Team

Data Protection Insider, Issue 141
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CJEU: OLAF in Breach of Data Protection Rules When Publishing a Press Release On 1st October, the General Court ruled on appeal that the publication of the applicant’s data in an OLAF press release was unlawful and gave rise to damages in OC v European Commission. As to the facts of the case, the applicant was a researcher at a […]
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30. October 2025  |   by DPI Editorial Team

Data Protection Inside, Issue 142
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AG Spielmann Advises Court that National Courts May Conditionally Process Data Obtained Contrary to the Storage Limitation Principle On 16th October, AG Spielmann opined that national courts may, under certain conditions, process in their judicial capacity personal data which they obtained by processing other personal data which was originally collected and stored by other controllers in breach of the data […]
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2. October 2025  |   by DPI Editorial Team

Data Protection Insider, Issue 140
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1. AG Spielmann on Data Processing Concerning Anti-Doping in Sport On 25th September, AG Spielmann offered his opinion in the case of NADA Austria and Others. In terms of the facts, the case concerns anti-doping procedures, which led to the suspension of certain athletes. According to Austrian anti-doping legislation, the National Anti-Doping Agency, Austria (NADA) ‘publishes on its website a […]
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18. September 2025  |   by DPI Editorial Team

Data Protection Insider, Issue 139
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-CJEU Rules on Remedies and Damages for Illegal Processing under the GDPR- On 4th September, the CJEU clarified the application of the GDPR framework on remedies and damages in IP v Quirin Privatbank AG. As to the facts of the case, the applicant in the main proceedings applied for a job with Quirin Privantbank. Seemingly by mistake, Quirin Privatbank responded […]
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16. September 2025  |   by DPI Editorial Team

Data Protection Insider, Issue 138
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-CJEU Rules on Access to EDPB Documents- On 16th July, the CJEU ruled that the applicable provisions on access to EDPB documents are relatively broad and that the applicant in Ballmann v EDPB should have been granted access to the preparatory documents to Binding Decision 3/2022. As to the facts of the case, in May 2018, the applicant, acting through […]
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17. July 2025  |   by DPI Editorial Team

Data Protection Insider, Issue 137
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-CJEU Examines Rules on Data Disclosure for Evidence Purposes- On 3rd July, the CJEU delivered a judgment following an appeal in the case of Parliament v TC. As to the background of the dispute, it concerns in essence the procedure for terminating the contract of an accredited parliamentary assistant (A), who had been recruited by a Member of the European […]
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3. July 2025  |   by DPI Editorial Team

Data Protection Insider, Issue 136
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Editor’s note: owing to the lack of case–law in the past two weeks, we have decided to report on other relevant EU data protection law news, certain of which dates back beyond two weeks. -VIS SCG Activity Report 2023-2024 Published- On 26th June, the EDPB published the Activity Report of the Visa Information System (VIS) Supervision Coordination Group (SCG) for […]
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19. June 2025  |   by DPI Editorial Team

Data Protection Insider, Issue 135
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-CJEU: Inadmissibility Decision on Case concerning Access to Judicial Documents- On 5th June, the CJEU declared the preliminary ruling questions in SQ, from a Bulgarian court inadmissible. However, the Court indicated under which conditions the questions can be made admissible and, thus, we presume that in the future the same questions might become the subject to a new preliminary ruling […]
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DPI Editorial Team

Dara Hallinan, Editor: Legal academic working at FIZ Karlsruhe. His specific focus is on the interaction between law, new technologies – particularly ICT and biotech – and society. He studied law in the UK and Germany, completed a Master’s in Human Rights and Democracy in Italy and Estonia and wrote his PhD at the Vrije Universiteit Brussel on the better regulation of genetic privacy in biobanks and genomic research through data protection law. He is also programme director for the annual Computers, Privacy and Data Protection conference.

Diana Dimitrova, Editor: Researcher at FIZ Karlsruhe. Focus on privacy and data protection, especially on rights of data subjects in the Area of Freedom, Security and Justice. Completed her PhD at the VUB on the topic of ‘Data Subject Rights: The rights of access and rectification in the AFSJ’. Previously, legal researcher at KU Leuven and trainee at EDPS. Holds LL.M. in European Law from Leiden University.

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