Questions Raised over Children’s Websites and apps
Data protection agencies concerned by use of personal information…
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Litigation & DR
Fresh Starts and Freshening Skills
Roger Bickerstaff offers a welcome and has some suggestions for self-improvement…
Subject-access Requests: Crime Exemption, Proportionality and Procedure
The High Court has again been called upon to rule on a disputed subject-access request in a case which has most unusual facts and which raises some difficult procedural issues…
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Cases Round-up
Data Retention: 35-year Retention Policy Upheld In a judicial review action, R (C) v Northumberland County Council & Anor [2015] EWHC (Admin) 2134, the Administrative Court (Simon J) has ruled that the data retention policy of Northumberland County Council is lawful. The claimant (C) felt that he and his family had been the subject of…
The HTML5 Battery API
Neil Brown, Rebecca Collard and Micheál Ó Floinn comment on the news that functionality within the HTML5 standard may allow surreptitious tracking of users….
Subject-access Requests: Privilege, Proportionality and Propriety
A High Court judgment has rejected a subject-access request served on solicitors…
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Consultation on Online Copyright Infringement Penalties
The IPO is running a consultation on proposals to increase sentences for online copyright infringement…
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Open Season on Service Providers? The General Data Protection Regulation Cometh…
Are you a service provider dealing with personal data? Be afraid. Be very afraid. Especially (but not only) if you’re an IaaS/PaaS cloud provider. Kuan Hon explains….
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In, Out or Shake it All About? The Impact of the UK Opt-out from the Policing and Criminal Justice Data Protection Directive
Rosemary Jay identifies areas of complexity and various data protection conundrums arising from UK opt-outs…
Tokenisation
Amandeep Singh, Milan Joshi and Steve Clough explain tokenisation and how it fits into the payment ecosystem…