Description
Romain Robert is member of the litigation chamber of Belgium’s Supervisory Authority. He worked in various Brussels law firms between 2002 and 2011. Between 2007 and 2011, he was also a researcher at the Research Centre in Law and Society at the University of Namur. In 2011, he joined Belgium’s Supervisory Authority as a legal advisor. He worked as legal officer at the Policy and Consultation Unit of the European Data Protection Supervisor (EDPS) as of 2015 and joined the Secretariat of the European Data Protection Board (EDPB) in May 2018. In April 2020, Romain joined NOYB - an NGO conducting strategic litigation to enforce digital rights - where he was Program Director until July 2023.
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Romain Robert on LinkedIn EDPS Opinion on the Proposal for a Directive on certain aspects concerning contracts for the supply of digital content Sergio Maldonado, How the Digital Content Directive will break the GDPR NOYB Robert Bateman: Consent or Pay EDPB Guidelines 05/2020 on consent Giovanni Buttarelli (former EDPS), “Privacy 2030: A Vision for Europe” (IAPP)
Time for a Newsroom summarizing everything that’s happened in our usual areas of focus, although we are dropping the last two (Zero-Party Data and Future of media) this time around.
ePrivacy & Regulatory Updates Enforcement On September 5th, the CNIL fined CEGEDIM SANTÉ 800,000 euros for...
Published 11/18/24
The EDPB has finally adopted its much feared Guidelines on the scope of article 5.3 of the ePrivacy Directive, but consent may still be avoided in some cases not specifically covered by an exemption (e.g., analytics). Absent such an exception, and in light of dismal consent rates, publishers and...
Published 11/10/24