On Feb. 19, the Brussels Court of Appeal overruled one of the first decisions of the Belgian Data Protection Authority in a case involving the use of an electronic ID to get a loyalty card. A liquor store was fined 100,000 euros for alleged violations of the EU General Data Protection Regulation for refusing to give a customer a loyalty card after they declined to show their identity card. Aubin de Perthuis, CIPP/E, breaks down the initial ruling and why it was overturned in this piece for The Privacy Advisor.
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