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ARTICLE · 27 MARCH 2017

Privacy Commission Finds Big Data Use By Telecommunications Operator Does Not Violate Law

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The decision is subject to the conditions that the data is sufficiently aggregated and that underlying data is not used in the process.

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On November 24, 2016, the Privacy Commission issued a press release (source document in French and Dutch) explaining that the use and third-party offering of anonymized location data by a telecommunications operator did not infringe the telecommunication law. The decision is subject to the conditions that the data is sufficiently aggregated and that underlying data is not used in the process.

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