Philip Woolfson
Steptoe & Johnson LLP
Articles
The Insurance Distribution Directive: A Handbook on Cross-Border Insurance Distribution by Insurance Intermediaries in the EU
European Union - January 18 2019 The IDD applies to various persons who undertake insurance distribution activity. “Insurance distribution”The following activities constitute...
European Data Protection Board Adopts Draft Guidelines on Territorial Scope of General Data Protection Regulation (GDPR)
European Union - October 2 2018 The European Data Protection Board (EDPB) is an independent advisory body, established by the GDPR, that issues guidelines, recommendations, and best...
Belgium Publishes Draft Law Implementing GDPR
USA, Belgium - June 14 2018 On June 12, Belgium’s Parliament published a draft law on the “protection of natural persons with regard to processing of personal data.” The draft -...
GDPR: Belgium sets up new Data Protection Authority
Belgium, European Union - February 5 2018 On 10 January, the Belgian Gazette published the Law of 3 December 2017 “setting up the authority for data protection” (the Law). The Law is the first...
EU Court Denies Class Action for Data Protection in Schrems vs. Facebook Ireland Ltd - A Short-Lived Respite Until GDPR?
European Union, Ireland - January 30 2018 In its judgment of January 26, the European Court interpreted EU rules on jurisdiction in a dispute referred from the Austrian Supreme Court between a...
