'GDPR is no excuse for not tracing children placed in care'
The GDPR privacy legislation is no impediment to handing out sanctions to Russian oligarchs or reuniting children placed in care with their parents, says privacy experts Anna Berlee, Marlies van Eck, Simone van der Hof, Simone Huting, Friederike van der Jagt and Jeroen Terstegge.
In the remarkably slow handling of two painful issues, the Dutch benefits affair and the sanctions against Russian oligarchs, the protection of privacy plays a leading role. Two Dutch ministers have used the GDPR as an excuse not to act more decisively. This excuse is unjustified says Simone van der Hof, Professor of Law and the Information Society, and others in an opinion piece in Dutch newspaper Trouw.