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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?

Brussels Labour Court of Appeal disallows use of e-mails obtained in violation of the privacy rules

  • NautaDutilh
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  • Belgium
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  • March 14 2013

On 7 February 2013, the Brussels Labour Court of Appeal rendered a judgment on the admissibility into evidence of e-mails obtained in violation of

Court dismisses claims that Commission accepted abnormally low tender

  • Nabarro LLP
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  • Belgium, European Union
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  • May 24 2010

On 11 May 2010, the General Court dismissed a claim that the Commission had wrongly accepted an abnormally low tender for a Microsoft software and licence agreement

Belgian data protection authority closes proceedings against SWIFT

  • Hogan Lovells
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  • Belgium, USA
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  • February 3 2009

Following a two-year investigation, the Belgian data protection authority (Privacy Commission) decided on December 9, 2008, to close without further action its proceedings against the Society for Worldwide Interbank Financial Telecommunications (SWIFT

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

Parking violation enforcement violates privacy law

  • Hogan Lovells
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  • Belgium
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  • June 4 2008

The Justice of the Peace in Sint Niklaas, a small town near Brussels, rendered a remarkable judgment on May 5, 2008, acquitting 100 alleged parking violators from paying their parking tickets because the parking fine collection process had disregarded the individuals' privacy rights

Court of Appeal rules on right of access to medical data

  • Bird & Bird
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  • Belgium
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  • February 3 2010

The Court of Appeal in social law matters ("Cour du Travail" "Arbeidshof") recently had the opportunity to articulate its views on the right to access personal data held in the filing system of a medical practitioner in the context of 'controlling medicine' ("controlegeneeskunde" "médicine de contrôle"

Court of Appeal of Brussels finds that unsolicited e-mails sent by a political party violate privacy law

  • Stibbe
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  • Belgium
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  • November 22 2011

In a recently published judgment of 17 March 2010, the Court of Appeal of Brussels condemned a political party for illegal processing of personal data without the data subject’s consent

Belgian Supreme Court renders a decision about counterfeit seizure proceedings

  • CMS DeBacker
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  • Belgium
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  • February 1 2012

In its decision of 25 November 2011, the Belgian Supreme Court stated that counterfeit seizure proceedings, which are ex parte proceedings, may not be initiated on the basis of assumptions about the counterfeit, if such assumptions are not supported by documentary evidence

Labour Court of Brussels finds that the Data Protection Act does not prevent employers from making available employee-related information

  • Stibbe
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  • Belgium
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  • April 19 2012

On 1 April 2011, the Labour Court of Brussels issued a judgment whereby it held that the Data Protection Act of 8 December 1992 (the “DPA”) does not prevent an employer from making available employee-related information to customers