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CJEU is Asked: Are Dynamic IP Addresses Personal Data?

BGH just issued a press release informing that it filed a preliminary reference to the CJEU. The question is whether dynamic IP addresses constitute a personal data according to Art. 2 (a) Data Protection Directive. The case arose between an individual who is suing the Federal Republic of Germany for an injunction against the storage

Posted in data protection, personal data, privacy, search engines

Some Notes on AG’s Opinion in Google Spain Case

Being in almost summer off-mode, I finally found some time to read AG’s Opinion in Google Spain C-131/12. I was personally quite surprised to find there many references to eCommerce Directive safe harbors and secondary liability in the data protection law. Here are my notes with relevant passages. But let me start with super short

Posted in CJEU, data protection, EU, personal data, personality rights

Does Use of CCTVs to Protect Your Home From Offenders Fall Outside of EU Data Protection Laws?

This is how we could rephrase a new preliminary reference by the Czech Administrative Supreme Court. Journalist and former publisher of local newspapers Mr. Ryneš had persisting problems with unknown offenders who attacked him six times and several times damaged his house. Czech Police never found out who they were. Mr. Ryneš thus decided to

Posted in data protection, data retention, personal data, SK

Data Retention Reached Slovak Constitutional Court

I am very happy to report this case. Its something I and my colleagues at EISi have been working for more than two years. But let our EISi press release speak for itself: The group of Slovak MPs filed the complaint against the data retention before the Slovak Constitutional Court. In its complaint it requests

Posted in Auskunftsanspruch, CJEU, copyright, enforcement, personal data, privacy

CJEU: Bonnier Audio – Quite Disappointment

CJEU today rendered its highly awaited decision in Bonnier Audio C-164/10. Author of these lines is however *very very* disappointed by the outcome. It seems to me that the Court of Justice of European Union, does not realize its ‘constitutional role’ for the member states. The entire decision is pretty much just excerpts from the