Skip to main content
Home

Main navigation

  • Top stories
  • Health
  • Crime
  • Politics
  • Business
  • Tech
  • Culture
  • Sports
  • Weird
  • 1-1-2
Image
Lady Justice
Lady Justice - Credit: Zeralein99 / DepositPhotos - License: DepositPhotos
Ameco
CBP
court
data mining
data protection authority
data storage
Google
Jacob Kohnstamm
privacy
publications
Randstad
reputation
YD
Yieldr
Thursday, 30 April 2015 - 11:48
Share this:
  • facebook
  • twitter
  • linkedin
  • whatsapp
  • reddit

Data privacy watchdog increasingly blocked in court

Organizations are increasingly turning to the court to try and block Dutch Data Protection Authority's publications. According to the privacy watchdog, they fear that their reputations will be damaged if it is revealed that a CBP investigation found that they have misstepped. CBP president Jacob Kohnstamm is therefore advocating that an obligation to publish investigations be put in the law for the watchdog. "At this moment alone there are four cases in court. It creates a lot of pressure on our legal department. An obligation to publish would be a helping hand." he said to Trouw. He also thinks that the transparency would help citizens be more aware of how much date is being collected about them. According to Kohnstamm, invisibility is still a big problem. "Businesses and governments increasingly do profiling. This profile is created based on data collected and determines how we are handled or approached. But we are not always aware of it. If I steal a purse, you will see it. If I steal data, it is not so visible." Kohnstamm handed the CBP's annual report to the Tweede Kamer, lower house of parliament on Tuesday. This past year the CBP found that advertisement agency YD - now Yieldr - collects personal information from online users using cookies to display targeted ads, without asking the computer user's permission. The CBP gave Google a penalty that can increase up to 15 million euros for linking user's data of different services, such as searches, location data and mails. According to the watchdog, Google did not adequately inform users about this. The CBP also found that employment agencies Randstad and Adecco store the data of temporary workers for too long. The CBP will organize an international privacy conference later this year with the goal to devise pragmatic solutions for the differences in the approaches to privacy in the United States and Europe.

Follow us:

Latest stories

  • Cabinet ready to shorten duration of municipal debt relief down to 1.5 years
  • Two killed in fatal Arnhem fire are women aged 46 and 51
  • Lynxes might settle in Netherlands again; A "dilemma," Minister says
  • Leak of Dutch PM's row with Finance Minister is "Gossip and backstabbing;" Rutte apologized
  • Dutch police take down Exclu encrypted chat service with 42 arrests, €4 million seized
  • One worker killed, four hurt in Zeeland Refinery accident

Top stories

  • Dutch police take down Exclu encrypted chat service with 42 arrests, €4 million seized
  • Signal failure briefly halts train traffic around A'dam; NS warns of significant delays
  • Matching medicine dosage to patient's DNA can cut side effects 30%: LUMC
  • Dutch airports' traveler numbers not yet back to pre-pandemic levels in 2022
  • Dutch parliamentarians support €57 rent reduction for low-income households
  • European office to gather proof of war crimes in Ukraine will set up in The Hague

© 2012-2023, NL Times, All rights reserved.

Footer menu

  • Privacy
  • Contact
  • Partner content