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Belgian Privacy Commission issues updated recommendation on direct and viral marketing

  • Stibbe
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  • Belgium
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  • March 28 2013

On 30 January 2013, the Privacy Commission issued its updated recommendation on direct marketing (its first recommendation was dated 14 October 2009

Copyright Developments in Europe - Sabam, TalkTalk cases shed light on internet filtering

  • Hogan Lovells
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  • Belgium, France, United Kingdom
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  • July 19 2011

What should be the role of internet intermediaries in fighting illegal content?

New cookie rules implemented in Belgium

  • NautaDutilh
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  • Belgium, Netherlands
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  • August 27 2012

The Electronic Communications Act of 13 June 2005 was recently amended in order to implement, amongst other provisions, the new European rules on the use of cookies, thereby making the use of cookies subject to prior consent

Agreement reached in Belgium on Google Street View privacy concerns

  • Morrison & Foerster LLP
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  • Belgium
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  • January 12 2012

2010 and 2011 witnessed Google’s rollout of Street View, the search company’s mobile panoramic mapping service, in a number of European countries but not without challenges to the Internet giant, which has had to enter into a variety of agreements with local European data protection regulators

Prosecutor’s office blocks website access

  • Hunton & Williams LLP
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  • Belgium
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  • June 4 2009

On April 22, 2009, the Belgian Public Prosecutor ordered 17 Internet service providers (ISPs) to block access to a Dutch website (www.kinderporno.nl) that was disclosing the names and locations of individuals suspected of pedophile crimes

Belgian criminal court fines Yahoo! for non-disclosure of personal data to Public Prosecutor

  • Hunton & Williams LLP
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  • Belgium
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  • March 16 2009

On 2 March 2009, a Belgian Criminal court (Tribunal correctionnel de Termonde, No. DE 20.95.160825) fined Yahoo! Inc., 55,000 ($69,598) for refusing to disclose to a Belgian Public Prosecutor the personal data of its e-mail users who were under criminal investigation for fraud

Belgian Data Protection Commission issues a recommendation on mobile mapping

  • Bird & Bird
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  • Belgium
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  • April 4 2011

On 15 December 2010, the Belgian Data Protection Commission issued a recommendation in relation to mobile mapping (defined by the Data Protection Commission as "recording pictures of the road network through vehicles equipped with digital cameras"

Belgian Supreme Court introduces concept of reasonable expectation of privacy

  • Hunton & Williams LLP
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  • Belgium
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  • December 15 2008

On September 9, 2008, the Belgian Supreme Court (Court de Cassation), ruling in a criminal case, interpreted the secrecy of electronic communications in light of Article 8 of the European Convention on Human Rights and Article 17 of UN International Covenant on Civil and Political Rights (Right to Privacy

Belgian Privacy Commission issues recommendation on mobile mapping

  • Hunton & Williams LLP
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  • Belgium
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  • January 12 2011

Earlier this month, the Belgian Privacy Commission (the "Belgian DPA") published its December 15, 2010 Recommendation on Mobile Mapping (Recommandation d'initiative en matière de Mobile Mapping, or "the Recommendation"

Brussels Court of First Instance decisions - 26 November 2004 and 29 June 2007

  • Bird & Bird
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  • Belgium
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  • April 21 2011

In 2004, SABAM (the Belgian Society of Authors, Composers and Publishers) requested an injunction against Internet Access Provider Scarlet to prevent its customers from committing copyright infringements using peer-to-peer software and therefore (requiring the provider?) to adopt proactive measures to prevent the unauthorized exchange of protected material