Short BIO

Tanguy Van Overstraeten heads Linklaters' Global Privacy Practice as well as Linklaters' Technology Media & Telecommunications practice group in Belgium.

Over the years, Tanguy has developed a comprehensive practice in the field of information technology with a focus on data protection as well as IT agreements and outsourcing.

Tanguy has extensive experience in advising multinationals on local and international large scale regulatory projects, including the implementation of whistleblowing policies, Internet and email surveillance at work, transborder dataflow solutions such as binding corporate rules, compliance audit, IT forensic investigations in the framework of regulatory and court cases and, in general, the dealing with national and EU data protection regulatory authorities.

Among prominent cases, he has advised SWIFT, the leading financial messaging services company, in its dealings with European and national data protection authorities and has assisted in the setting of a business-friendly solution for the approval of data transfers under Belgian law in the context of binding corporate rules.

Tanguy has recently become a member of the European Advisory Board of the International Association of Privacy Professionals (IAPP) and is co-chairman of IAPP KnowledgeNet in Belgium. Tanguy is also an active member of the Digital Economy Committee of the American Chamber of Commerce to the European Union and Vice-Chair of the ICT Task Force of the British Chamber of Commerce in Belgium.

Tanguy speaks regularly at national and international conferences on data protection issues and lectures on data protection and outsourcing at the Solvay Brussels School of Economics and Management (University of Brussels).

 

CPDP Conference 2012 presentation

Hosting of the CPDP2012 panel 'What's on the law firms agenda?'

 

CPDP Conference 2011

Hosting of the CPDP2012 panel 'What is on the law firms’ agenda?'

I will have the pleasure to chair the panel on 'What is on the law firms' agenda?' this year. This topic is a recurrent one. It has been included by the conference organisers in all previous sessions. This year, when selecting the panellists, we paid particular attention to ensure an even wider representation of expertise at cross-border level, with a lawyer from the CEE region and a lawyer from Switzerland, a non-EU though European country. Data protection and privacy has indeed become a key international topic in today's business, high on the agenda of general counsels and heads of compliance. With the aim at effecting an active participation from the floor, we will cover a wide diversity of legal topics that kept us busy in 2010 and that are likely to further increase our know-how in 2011, such as the evolution and review of the current EU legislative framework, the fostering of BCR as one of the appropriate solutions for data transfer issues, the implementation of standard clauses in the context of outsourcing and offshoring, EU-US information governance, etc. I look forward to a lively discussion.

 

On-line publications

Data transfer issues regarding outsourcing/offshoring
http://88.208.217.135/guidance/Tanguy_Van_Overstraeten_DataTransfer_Belgium.html

Internet and e-mails monitoring at work
http://88.208.217.135/guidance/Tanguy_Van_Overstraeten_Monitoring_At_Work.html

Co-author of “Data Retention: coming to a network near you soon?, World Data Protection Report, BNA International, December 2008, p. 11

Co –author of “Data transfer issues regarding outsourcing/offshoring (Belgium), Data Guidance 2008, Cecile Park Publishing Ltd.