Search engine service providers are not responsible, on the basis of the Data Protection Directive, for personal data appearing on web pages they process," the court said in communicating Jääskinen's opinion.
However, if the data your site collects is sensitive (e.g.health information), then explicit consent could be required (and other data protection laws might apply too). When the UK regulator first announced the date for the Privacy Directive to...
Our preliminary analysis shows that Google's new policy does not meet requirements of the European Directive on Data Protection, especially regarding the information provided to data subjects," she said in a letter.
Many of the complaints they’ve filed with the Irish Data Protection Commissioner* involve Facebook’s continued storage of data users believe they have deleted. Though they receive emails from around the world, he said, their focus is on the 22...
