Data Retention: 35-year Retention Policy Upheld
The Administrative Court has ruled that a local authority’s policy of retaining child protection records for 35 years or more is lawful…
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SCL Event Report: International Management of Data Protection
Georgina Fraser reports on the meeting on 2 July hosted by Fox Williams LLP…
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What’s the Big Deal? Big Data in the Financial Services Sector
Jonny Emmanuel considers the big questions surrounding Big Data…
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The Internet of Things: How Will DATA (not you) Control the Machines that Control Your Home?
Lisa Downs expands on her contribution to the SCL Technology Law Futures Conference with a warning on control…
mHealth – Reconciling Technical Innovation with Data Protection
Sarah Hanson, Emma Burnett, Ian Stevens and Andrew Payne cover a recent opinion from the EDPS and its impact….
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Delfi v Estonia: Curtailing Online Freedom of Expression?
Lorna Woods takes a detailed look at the judgment in Delfi v Estonia and its implications…
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PSD2 Evolved
Simon Deane-Johns updates his review of the revised proposal for a Directive of the European Parliament and of the Council on payment services in the internal market in light of a supposedly final text….
Whose Smart City is it Anyway?
In the latest in our series on Smart Cities, Marko Balabanovic and Paul Galwas focus on Environment to Consumer services and the use of spatio-temporal data. They consider that such information poses privacy risks, since people’s movements and interactions are so predictable and that cities that embrace privacy principles can build citizen trust by transparently addressing public concerns over data sharing in their ecosystems of third-party service providers….
Many Smart Cities, One Smart Nation – Singapore’s Smart Nation Vision
As in so many areas, Singapore is leading the way in aspects of Smart Cities development, Melissa Low explains the history and looks forward at the issues that will arise in Singapore’s future development…
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Smart Cities: Creative Compliance and the Rise of ‘Designers as Regulators’
In the second in our series of articles on Smart Cities, Lachlan Urquhart and Dr Ewa Luger address the disconnect between DP regulation and systems design. Their research in this area may have identified one route to ‘creative compliance’….
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