GDPR at one: Legal certainty still eludes EU privacy law

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🗓️ 24 May 2019

⏱️ 28 minutes

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One year after the General Data Protection Regulation took effect, the sweeping EU privacy law is still clouded in uncertainty. A 50 million-euro fine against Google, imposed by France, has opened up a dispute about jurisdiction as well as the vexed question of how, exactly, companies can legally get people’s consent to process their data. As national regulators look to step up their enforcement in the GDPR’s second year, MLex is releasing a Special Report to shine a light into the regulation’s murky corners. In this podcast, three of the contributors — Matthew Newman, Jack Schickler and Cynthia Kroet — discuss their findings with editor Sam Wilkin.

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0:00.0	Hello and welcome to another M-Lex podcast. I'm Sam Wilkin, Brussels Bureau Chief, and today we have a very special podcast to a company a special report we're publishing today on the GDPR, which celebrates
0:22.4	its first birthday tomorrow. With regulators looking to step up their enforcement in year two,
0:28.0	there's still a lot of uncertainty surrounding these far-reaching privacy rules. Our report
0:32.6	aims to offer a bit of clarity. And with me today are three of the nine contributors. We have Matthew
0:39.0	Newman, who is the lead correspondent for data privacy in Europe. Hi Matthew. Hello. We have
0:46.0	Jack Schickler, who is our financial services correspondent here in Brussels. Hi, Jack. Hi. And we
0:52.4	have Cynthia Crute, who is an unsung hero of podcasts because she
0:56.1	normally does the editing. She's also a technology reporter here in Brussels and data privacy.
1:01.6	Hi, Cynthia. Hi, so. Okay, so one of the biggest issues, I guess, with GDPR is not everyone's
1:09.7	entirely clear about what it means. It's one year on May
1:14.2	the 25th that it came into force. Matthew, what are the areas of uncertainty that are most
1:20.7	concern here? So the special report starts out with what's called the gray areas. And this is one of
1:27.1	our reporters based in
1:28.9	London who's written that story Vesela Gladavisha and she's highlighted some important areas
1:35.6	such as the legal justification for handling data. Now if you look at the GDPR there's six legal
1:43.1	basis for handling data.
1:45.2	That sounds pretty clear.
1:47.2	Unfortunately, the companies look at this and say, hmm, this is a nice framework, but we
1:53.8	don't have the actual specifics.
1:55.9	That was done on purpose because the GDPR is more of a framework.
2:01.6	It's supposed to be able to adjust to technological changes.
2:06.6	And one of the vague areas, which is actually quite key for many companies,
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