After Google Spain and Charlie Hebdo: The Continuing Evolution of European Union Data Privacy Law in a Time of Change

摘要

This survey has focused on data privacy developments linked to two major events in the news-the ECJ's Google Spain ruling and the Charlie Hebdo terrorist attacks. Privacy developments that seemingly involve only one company-namely, Google-have wider implications, and should be of interest to other firms as well. These developments impact various industries and categories of professionals: Internet search engines, certainly, but also other Internet intermediaries and companies that process personal data (including those that publish them on the Internet), media, journalists, airlines, travel industries, and others. Hopefully, this survey will encourage readers to monitor developments in these areas.