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29.02.2024 Bart Van den Brande

European Commission initiates its first formal investigation under the DSA against Tiktok

The Digital Services Act (DSA) became applicable to all intermediary service providers and platforms on 17 February 2024. Barely ...

27.11.2023 Bart Van den Brande

Paying for Facebook, or how Meta once again attempts to evade the GDPR

Last week Meta, the company behind Facebook, announced a major change in direction. For 15 years, Mark Zuckerberg constantly ...

24.11.2023 Bart Van den Brande

How the adtech industry continues to ignore online privacy: another conviction of Criteo

When the same adtech company is convicted twice in a few months for violations of cookie regulations and the GDPR in two ...

02.06.2023 Bart Van den Brande

The Rocky Road to EU-US Data Transfer

As we step into the summer of 2023, the world’s eyes are on the European Commission and its anticipated finalization of a ...

22.11.2022 Bart Van den Brande

Are unsubscribe lists forbidden?

As a marketeer, you know the stress about unsubscribes to your newsletter. With every new newsletter, you see the list of ...

11.10.2022 Bart Van den Brande

The emperor’s new clothes: US Executive Order to restore data transfers between the EU and US

Anyone who remembers the fairy tale of the emperor will probably remember that the emperor walked naked… Well, the new US ...

31.03.2022 Bart Van den Brande

“Agreement” on a new Privacy Shield: Schrems III in the making?

To everyone’s surprise, last week’s EU-US summit and Joe Biden’s visit to Brussels ended with the announcement ...

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02.02.2022 Bart Van den Brande

Google Fonts on your website? Do not share IP addresses with Google because of GDPR

We have to admit that we ourselves were a bit surprised when we read a recent German judgment.  It taught us an unexpected ...

20.01.2022 Isha Upadhyaya

The importance of understanding the difference between anonymization and pseudonymisation

At Sirius Legal we receive questions on a regular basis concerning the anonymisation of personal data. Often, the difference ...

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