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On 13 January 2021, the Advocate General (AG) of the Court of Justice of the European Union (CJEU) issued an important opinion in the case of
Facebook Belgium v Gegevensbeschermingsautoriteit (C-645/19) which considers the vital role of the GDPR’s one-stop-shop mechanism. The AG’s opinion unequivocally affirms the significance of the role of the lead supervisory authority (LSA) in being the primary investigator and enforcer of data protection law within the EU, while at the same time acknowledging the active role that other supervisory authorities concerned (SAC) have in scrutinising organisations’ compliance with the GDPR.
Data protection watchdogs in any European Union (EU) member state can file complaints against Facebook despite the fact the company bases its European presence in Ireland, advocate general Michal Bobek advised the European Court of Justice.The .
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Background
At 23.00 (GMT) on 31 December 2020, the transition period agreed
under the Withdrawal Agreement between the EU and the UK expired.
From that point, Regulation (EU) 2016/679, (the
GDPR ) ceased to have direct effect in
the UK. Whilst the UK has onshored much of the existing EU GDPR
legislation into UK legislation (
UK
GDPR ) the European Commission has not yet adopted an
adequacy decision in relation to the UK s data protection
regime.
As a result, any transfers of personal data from any EEA Member
State to the United Kingdom from 1 January 2021 onwards constitutes
a third country transfer which ordinarily requires EEA
data controllers and EEA data processors to implement certain
EU Reporter
Published 3 months ago
The European Commission has approved the acquisition of Fitbit by Google. The approval is conditional on full compliance with concessions offered by Google to the European Commission.
Executive Vice President Margrethe Vestager, with responsibility for competition policy, said: “We can approve the proposed acquisition of Fitbit by Google because the commitments will ensure that the market for wearables and the nascent digital health space will remain open and competitive. The commitments will determine how Google can use the data collected for ad purposes, how interoperability between competing wearables and Android will be safeguarded and how users can continue to share health and fitness data, if they choose to.”