Gerrit Vandendriessche

Practice Areas

Gerrit Vandendriessche practices ICT and general commercial law. He regularly advises on computer law, privacy and data protection, electronic communications, e-commerce, outsourcing, digital signatures and certification, software, cloud services, distant sales rules, commercial practices including (on-line) advertising, and general commercial law. He also conducts ICT-related litigation.

Gerrit is a certified Data Protection Officer.

Professional Memberships

Gerrit is President of the Legal Hub of the Belgian Association of Marketing (BAM).

Gerrit is furthermore a member of ITechLaw and the Internet Advertising Bureau. He is a guest lecturer and freelance Researcher at the Centre for Law, Science, Technology & Society studies of the University of Brussels.

Publications

Gerrit is a regular speaker at conferences with an extensive publication record in the fields of ICT and commercial law.

- VANDENDRIESSCHE, G. en SCHILLEBEECKX, A., “Het uitzonderingsregime voor de verwerking van persoonsgegevens voor onderzoek”, TPP, 2019, afl. 01, 14.

- National Data Retention Regime ‘Null and Void’", Cri, 5/2015, p. 149. (with L. Truyens).

- Chapter on “Market practices and consumer protection in part VI of the Code of Economic Law”, published in the book Le nouveau code de droit économique / Het nieuwe wetboek van economisch recht, Larcier, 2014.