Brinkhof
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Privacy and data protection

Privacy & data protection

Brinkhof’s team of experienced privacy lawyers is ready to assist you with matters involving privacy and data protection. We help national and international companies comply with increasingly complex legislation and assist them with (enforcement) proceedings where necessary. Clients from the technology, media and telecom sectors, as well as financial and business service providers, know where to find us and have valued us as a top-tier firm now for many years in Chambers and Legal 500.

Solution-oriented and clear

We are bold and take an approach that is creative, solution-oriented and clear. We provide a broader business and legal perspective, and we also consider all other areas of law that are relevant to the use of information and data, such as data and sectoral regulations, competition law and contract law.

A trusted firm in GDPR

In the field of data protection, we advise and litigate on behalf of well-known, and often international, companies in matters concerning the GDPR and other privacy regulations. We also regularly collaborate in this field with top law firms in other countries. Innovative technology companies in particular that rely heavily on data in their business operations make use of our services again and again as their ‘trusted adviser’.

Privacy litigation

We not only advise on privacy, but also have unrivalled experience in privacy litigation, whether that involves an individual case, a fine imposed by a regulatory authority or a collective damages claim. We have a strong track record, with extensive experience not only in the field of privacy, but also in litigating before civil and administrative courts.

A leading firm

With a strong and experienced team that includes several partners who regularly litigate in privacy matters, we have gained the reputation of being the leading law firm in this field. We were the lawyers in the first legal case in which a GDPR fine imposed by the Dutch Data Protection Authority was overturned by the court in two instances. We were also involved in the majority of legal cases concerning the ‘right to be forgotten’.

 

"Within its focus areas, the firm’s team offers a broad variety of skills and expertise"

Chambers Europe

"Quinten has a thorough understanding of the business and is capable of giving to-the-point and strategic advice. He is always up to date with new legislation and jurisprudence and informs the client proactively whenever there is something that is relevant for the business"

Chambers Europe

High-profile cases

  • VoetbalTV: we assisted VoetbalTV, a partnership between the KNVB and Talpa, in its appeal against a fine from the Dutch Data Protection Authority. Both the District Court and the Council of State ruled that this fine was wrongfully imposed;
  • We help an adtech company with several legal cases about placing tracking cookies.
  • We represent two leading technology companies in class actions  related to alleged privacy and data protection infringements. 
  • We assisted a popular social network in an enforcement action by the Dutch Data Protection Authority (Dutch DPA) that formed part of an internationally coordinated action by European regulators. The Dutch DPA referred the case to a foreign regulator and limited itself to imposing a fine for past conduct;
  • We assisted a large cloud provider in the Data Protection Impact Assessment (DPIA) process carried out by the central government in the context of the deployment of these services for the benefit of government services;
  • Brinkhof assisted a number of popular publishers in connection with enforcement by the Dutch DPA for using a cookie wall.
  • Brinkhof successfully appealed a fine imposed by the Dutch data protection authority  on behalf of a publisher.

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