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Guidelines 8/2022 on identifying a controller or processor's lead supervisory authority

Guidelines for identifying a controller or processor’s lead supervisory authority

Richtsnoeren 01/2020 inzake de verwerking van persoonsgegevens in het kader van verbonden voertuigen en mobiliteitsgerelateerde toepassingen

guidelines connected vehicles

Guidelines 05/2022 on the use of facial recognition technology in the area of law enforcement

Guidelines on the use of facial recognition technology in the area of law enforcement

More and more law enforcement authorities (LEAs) apply or intend to apply facial recognition technology (FRT). It may be used to authenticate or to identify a person and can be applied on videos (e.g. CCTV) or photographs. It may be used for various purposes, including to search for persons in police watch lists or to monitor a person's movements in the public space. FRT is built on the processing of biometric data , therefore, it encompasses the processing of special categories ...

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Guidelines on articles 46 (2) (a) and 46 (3) (b) of Regulation 2016/679 for transfers of personal data between EEA and non-EEA public authorities and bodies

Richtsnoeren 1/2019 voor gedragscodes en toezichthoudende organen in de zin van Verordening 2016/679

guidelines gedragscodes en toezichthoudende organen

Guidelines 1/2019 on Codes of Conduct and Monitoring Bodies under Regulation 2016/679

Guidelines on codes of conduct and monitoring bodies

Guidelines 1/2020 on processing personal data in the context of connected vehicles and mobility related applications

Guidelines on processing of personal data through video devices

Richtsnoeren 02/2022 voor de toepassing van artikel 60 AVG

guidelines voor de toepassing van artikel 60 AVG

Een van de belangrijkste innovaties bij de invoering van de AVG was de introductie van het concept 'één-loketmechanisme'. In gevallen van grensoverschrijdende verwerking is de toezichthoudende autoriteit in de lidstaat van de hoofdvestiging van de verwerkingsverantwoordelijke of verwerker de autoriteit die leidinggeeft aan de handhaving van de AVG met betrekking tot de grensoverschrijdende verwerkingsactiviteiten in kwestie. Daarbij wordt samengewerkt met alle autoriteiten die de gevolge...

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binding corporate rules voor verwerkingsverantwoordelijken

Guidelines 3/2018 on the territorial scope of the GDPR (Article 3)

Guidelines on the territorial scope of the GDPR

Richtsnoeren 05/2022 voor het gebruik van gezichtsherkenningstechnologie in het kader van rechtshandhaving

guidelines gebruik gezichtsherkenning bij rechtshandhaving

Steeds meer rechtshandhavingsinstanties passen gezichtsherkenningstechnologie toe of zijn voornemens deze toe te passen. De technologie kan worden gebruikt om een persoon te authenticeren of te identificeren en kan voor video's (bijv. CCTV) of foto's worden ingezet, maar ook voor andere doeleinden, waaronder het opzoeken van personen op signaleringslijsten van de politie of het volgen van de bewegingen van een persoon in de openbare ruimte. Gezichtsherkenningstechnologie is gebaseer...

Guidelines 9/2022 on personal data breach notification under GDPR

Guidelines on personal data breach notification under GDPR

Guidelines 05/2020 on consent under Regulation 2016/679

Guidelines on consent

Guidelines 04/2021 on Codes of Conduct as tools for transfers

Guidelines on codes of conduct and monitoring bodies

The GDPR requires in its Article 46 that controllers/processors shall put in place appropriate safeguards for transfers of personal data to third countries or international organisations. To that end, the GDPR diversifies the appropriate safeguards that may be used by organisations under Article 46 for framing transfers to third countries by introducing amongst others, codes of conduct as a new transfer mechanism (articles 40-3 and 46-2-e). In this respect, as provi...

Richtsnoeren 07/2020 over de begrippen 'verwerkingsverantwoordelijke' en 'verwerker' in de AVG

guidelines over de begrippen 'verwerkingsverantwoordelijke' en 'verwerker' in de AVG

De begrippen 'verwerkingsverantwoordelijke', 'gezamenlijke verwerkingsverantwoordelijke' en 'verwerker' spelen een cruciale rol bij de toepassing van de algemene verordening gegevensbescherming (AVG, Verordening (EU) 2016/679), aangezien ermee wordt bepaald wie verantwoordelijk is voor de naleving van verschillende gegevensbeschermingsregels en op welke wijze betrokkenen hun rechten in de praktijk kunnen uitoefenen. De precieze betekenis van deze begrippen en de criteria voor de jui...

Guidelines 07/2020 on the concepts of controller and processor in the GDPR

Guidelines on the concepts of controller and processor in the GDPR

The concepts of controller, joint controller and processor play a crucial role in the application of the General Data Protection Regulation 2016/679 (GDPR), since they determine who shall be responsible for compliance with different data protection rules, and how data subjects can exercise their rights in practice. The precise meaning of these concepts and the criteria for their correct interpretation must be sufficiently clear and consistent throughout the European Economic Area (EEA). The conc...

Guidelines 02/2022 on the application of Article 60 GDPR

Guidelines on the application of Article 60 GDPR

With the introduction of the GDPR, the concept of the one-stop shop was established as one of the main innovations. In cross-border processing cases, the supervisory authority in the Member State of the controller's or processor's main establishment is the authority leading the enforcement of the GDPR for the respective cross-border processing activities, in cooperation with all the authorities which may face the effects of the processing activities at stake: be it through the establishments ...

Guidelines 1/2018 on certification and identifying certification criteria in accordance with Articles 42 and 43 of the Regulation

Guidelines on certification and identifying certification criteria

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Guidelines on the Interplay between the application of Article 3 and the provisions on international transfers as per Chapter V of the GDPR

The GDPR does not provide for a legal definition of the notion 'transfer of personal data to a third country or to an international organisation'. Therefore, the EDPB provides these guidelines to clarify the scenarios to which it considers that the requirements of Chapter V should be applied and, to that end, it has identified three cumulative criteria to qualify a processing operation as a transfer: - 1) A controller or a processor ('exporter') is subject to the GDPR for the given processing. -...

Richtsnoeren 3/2018 over het territoriale toepassingsgebied van de AVG (artikel 3)

guidelines territoriaal toepassingsgebied AVG

Guidelines 07/2022 on certification as a tool for transfers

Guidelines on certification and identifying certification criteria

The GDPR requires in its Article 46 that data exporters shall put in place appropriate safeguards for transfers of personal data to third countries or international organisations. To that end, the GDPR diversifies the appropriate safeguards that may be used by data exporters under Article 46 for framing transfers to third countries by introducing, amongst others, certification as a new transfer mechanism (Articles 42 (2) and 46 (2) (f) GDPR). These guidelines provide guidance as to the applicati...

Guidelines 03/2022 on Deceptive design patterns in social media platform interfaces: how to recognise and avoid them

Guidelines on deceptive design patterns in social media platform interfaces: how to recognise and avoid them

These Guidelines offer practical recommendations to social media providers as controllers of social media, designers and users of social media platforms on how to assess and avoid so-called 'deceptive design patterns' in social media interfaces that infringe on GDPR requirements. To this end, the EDPB recommends that controllers make use of interdisciplinary teams, consisting, among others, of designers, data protection officers and decision-makers. It is important to note ...

Guidelines 01/2022 on data subject rights - Right of access

Guidelines on data subject rights - Right of access

The right of access of data subjects is enshrined in Art. 8 of the EU Charter of Fundamental Rights. It has been a part of the European data protection legal framework since its beginning and is now further developed by more specified and precise rules in Art. 15 GDPR.

Guidelines 02/2024 on Article 48 GDPR

Article 48 GDPR provides that: ' Any judgment of a court or tribunal and any decision of an administrative authority of a third country requiring a controller or processor to transfer or disclose personal data may only be recognised or enforceable in any manner if based on an international agreement, such as a mutual legal assistance treaty, in force between the requesting third country and the Union or a Member State, without prejudice to other grounds for transfer...