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Nienke Kingma

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Introduction Recently, the European Commission published its evaluation report on the first two years of the General Data Protection Regulation (GDPR). The Commission focused on, in particular, two themes in its evaluation, being (1) international data transfers and (2) the cooperation and consistency among the European supervisory authorities. As to the latter, the Commission is of the opinion it should definitely be improved. With regard to international data transfer the Commission focuses on the review…

On March 2, 2020, the Dutch Data Protection Authority (DDPA) published its notice of a monetary penalty notice, issued under the General Data Protection Regulation against the Dutch National Tennis Association. A fine in the amount of € 525,000 was imposed for the – allegedly – unauthorized sale of member data to the Association’s sponsors. This decision is relevant as it is the first monetary fine issued by the DDPA which relates to (direct) marketing…