Cross-border data protection: Applicable law and territorial powers of national data protection supervisors

Mc Cullagh, Karen ORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0002-5215-3629 (2016) Cross-border data protection: Applicable law and territorial powers of national data protection supervisors. SCRIPTed, 13 (1).

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Abstract

An analysis of the European Court of Justice preliminary ruling in Case C-230/14 Weltimmo s.r.o. v Nemzeti Adatvédelmi és Információszabadság Hatóság, on the interpretation of two important aspects of Directive 95/46/EC, namely, the applicable law, and territorial reach of national data protection authorities. The Court ruled that the data protection legislation of a member state may be applied by the national data protection authority to a foreign registered company which exercises, through stable arrangements, real and effective (albeit minimal) activity in that member state; a ruling that potentially increases compliance costs for entities operating across multiple European jurisdictions pending the introduction of the proposed General Data Protection Regulation.

Item Type:	Article
Additional Information:	Published under a CC-BY-NC-SA licence
Uncontrolled Keywords:	data protection
Faculty \ School:	Faculty of Social Sciences > School of Law
UEA Research Groups:	Faculty of Social Sciences > Research Groups > Media, Information Technology and Intellectual Property Law
Depositing User:	Pure Connector
Date Deposited:	22 Mar 2016 09:36
Last Modified:	09 Apr 2023 06:30
URI:	https://ueaeprints.uea.ac.uk/id/eprint/57818
DOI:	10.2966/scrip.130116.95

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