“In the European Union (EU), all people have a fundamental right to privacy, described in Article 7 of the Charter of Fundamental Rights of the European Union (Charter), ratified in December 2000. Apart from this right to privacy, the same Charter also explicitly lists a fundamental right to data protection in Article 8, stating that everyone has the right to the protection of personal data concerning him or her. Compliance with these rules shall be subject to control by an independent authority, which all EU Member States have addressed by establishing national Data Protection Authorities (DPAs), in charge of independent supervision …”
Bart Custers, Linda Louis, Maria Spinelli and Kalliopi Terzidou, Quis custodiet ipsos custodes? Data protection in the judiciary in EU and EEA Member States, International Data Privacy Law, volume 12, issue 2, May 2022, pages 93-112, https://doi.org/10.1093/idpl/ipac002.
First posted 2022-06-28 16:45:18
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