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In three decisions issued on 18 June 2018, the Conseil d’Etat (the Council of State - a body of the French Government that acts both as legal adviser to the executive branch and as the Supreme Court for administrative justice) ruled on appeals lodged by the television channel C8 against three heavy sanctions imposed last year by the French national audiovisual regulatory authority (Conseil supérieur de l’audiovisuel - “the CSA”) following inappropriate behaviour during the programmes “Touche pas à mon poste” and “TPMP! Baba hot line”. The Conseil d’Etat quashed one of the sanctions and upheld the...

On 5 June 2018, the Court of Justice of the European Union (CJEU) delivered a judgment in the case of Unabhängiges Landeszentrum für Datenschutz Schleswig-Holstein v Wirtschaftsakademie Schleswig-Holstein GmbH (Case C-210/16). The judgment interprets the notion of a “controller” - one of the key concepts of the European data protection framework - within the context of a relationship between Facebook and the administrator of a fan page created on Facebook's platform. In addition, it clarifies the scope of the enforcement powers of the national data protection authorities in relation to local offices...

According to the European Court of Human Rights (ECtHR), the Swedish law permitting the bulk interception of electronic signals in Sweden for foreign intelligence purposes does not violate the right to privacy and correspondence under Article 8 of the European Convention on Human Rights (ECHR). The ECtHR reached this conclusion after a Swedish human rights not-for-profit organisation, Centrum för Rättvisa (“the Centrum”), lodged a complaint with the Strasbourg Court, alleging that Swedish legislation and practice in the field of signals intelligence violated and continued to violate its privacy...

Since the judgment by the Court of Justice of the European Union (CJEU) in the case of Google Spain SL, Google Inc. v. Agencia Española de Protección de Datos (see IRIS 2014-6/3), and the explicit recognition in Article 17 of the General Data Protection Regulation (2016/679) of the right to erasure (“the right to be forgotten - see IRIS 2018-6/7), the European Court of Human Rights (ECtHR) has introduced and applied important principles with regard to the “right to be forgotten” with respect to both Article 8 (the right to respect for private life) and Article 10...

On 13 April 2018, a bus travelling in the direction of Sofia overturned on the Trakia highway near Vakarel. Six people were killed, four people were left in a serious condition, and dozens were injured. The Council for Electronic Media (CEM) monitored the programmes of commercial media service providers (NOVA TELEVISION, BTV, CANAL 3 and EVROPA) and the programmes of the national public providers (BNT 1 and radio program HORIZONT) on 13 and 14 April 2018. The purpose of the monitoring was to assess (i) the media’s compliance with the requirements set out by the Radio and Television Act in respect...