El tribunal de justicia de la Unión Europea como juez garante de la privacidad en internet

Abstract

The origin and evolution of the data protection right has a clear European leadership. The global impact of this originally European legislalion has led to the proliferation of national laws for the protection of data in the rest of the continents and has forced global technology services -regardless of their geographical origin- to adapt to European data protection standards. In particular, these IT services have been adapted to the jurisprudence of the Court of Justice of the European Union on the privacy protection on the Internet. This article will demonstrate the extra European impact of three renowned recent judgments of the Court of Justice of the European Union: Case Digital Rights (Data Retention Directive), Case Google (Right to be Forgotten) and Case Facebook (Safe Harbour). These rulings are a milestone in the evolution of the data protection because of its global impact and, consequently, by the transference of the European standards of data protection to the rest of the planet.