Google and personal data protection

Authors
Publication date 2012
Host editors
  • A. Lopez-Tarruella
Book title Google and the law: empirical approaches to legal aspects of knowledge-economy business models
ISBN
  • 9789067048453
Series Information technology and law series, 22
Pages (from-to) 75-111
Publisher The Hague: T.M.C. Asser Press
Organisations
  • Faculty of Law (FdR) - Institute for Information Law (IViR)
Abstract This chapter discusses the interplay between the European personal data protection regime and two specific Google services, Interest-Based Advertising and Google Street View. The chapter assesses first the applicability of the Data Protection Directive, then jurisdictional issues, the principles relating to data quality, whether there is a legitimate purpose for data processing, and lastly the transparency principle in connection with the rights of the data subject. The conclusion is that not all aspects of the services are easy to reconcile with the Directive’s requirements.
Document type Chapter
Language English
Published at https://doi.org/10.1007/978-90-6704-846-0_4
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