Netherlands: Dutch Data Protection Authority finds processing of personal data for anti-piracy research lawful

• Autores: Sarah Johanna Eskens
• Localización: IRIS: Legal Observations of the European Audiovisual Observatory, ISSN-e 1023-8565, Nº. 5, 2016
• Idioma: inglés
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• Resumen

  • On 14 March 2016, the Autoriteit Persoonsgegevens (Dutch data protection authority, AP) declared that a plan to process the personal data of internet users for anti-piracy investigations is lawful. Stichting BREIN, a Dutch anti-piracy organisation, intends to collect and further process the IP addresses and user names of Dutch citizens engaging in file sharing via ‘BitTorrent’ networks. The purpose of the data processing is to investigate the involvement of these people in the unauthorised, large-scale uploading and downloading of copyright-protected works, such as films and music. The organisation notified the Dutch data protection authority of its plans.