The General Data Protection Regulation and Civil Liability

2018
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Author: Emmanuela Truli
Published in: Personal Data in Competition, Consumer Protection and Intellectual Property Law
Publisher: Springer Berlin Heidelberg

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The General Data Protection Regulation (GDPR) took effect on 25 May 2018, on which date Directive 95/46/EC was repealed. The new GDPR has in some ways enhanced the protection of personal data: data subjects have expanded rights and plaintiffs suffering harm for a data breach may file for restitution for their damage on the basis of the more comprehensive and coherent liability provision of Article 82. Many of the amendments and clarifications of this new provision are intended to (a) address the significant divergence in the liability rules transposing Article 23 of the repealed Data Protection Directive into national legislation and (b) complement such rules. These amendments are, mostly, very welcome, including: an explicit provision for compensation of moral damage, liability under certain conditions of the processor and joint liability of persons who have jointly caused the damage, and a right of representation of the data subject by a competent association.

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Emmanuela Truli, Dr. Juris (LMU, Munich), LL.M. (Columbia, New York), Attorney at Law admitted in the Athens and New York Bar, is Assistant Professor of Civil Law at the Athens University for Economics and Business and a former Commissioner-Rapporteur of the Hellenic Competition Commission.

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Title: The General Data Protection Regulation and Civil Liability
Author: Emmanuela Truli
Publisher: Springer Berlin Heidelberg
Book: Personal Data in Competition, Consumer Protection and Intellectual Property Law
Print ISBN: 978-3-662-57645-8

Electronic ISBN: 978-3-662-57646-5

Copyright Year: 2018
DOI: https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-662-57646-5_12

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