Helen Hart and Jon English report on the Supreme Court judgment and consider its implications for IT lawyers…
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The ICO has given details of its latest monetary penalty…
The long awaited Bill has now been published…
Neil Brown’s overview comes with a ‘health warning’: this is based on a very quick review of the draft bill and recollections of discussions from consultation meetings on this issue. Let him know what he’s got wrong(!) at draft_IP_bill@neilzone.co.uk.
Neil offers this article as ‘food for thought’ and to help discussion. It is based on what he found interesting. It is of course neither complete nor legal advice and was written in his personal capacity….
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Data Exchange between Administrative Bodies Needs Notice The CJEU has given judgment in Case C-201/14 Smaranda Bara and Others v Presedintele Casei Nationale de Asigurari de Sanatate and Others. It held that, where personal data is subject to transfer and processing between public administrative bodies, the data subject must be informed in advance. Facts Ms…
In the second of our series of articles on Schrems, Natasha Simmons takes a sober look at the judgment in Schrems v Data Protection Commissioner and gives some practical guidance…
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Simon Deane-Johns reviews the final version of the new Directive of the European Parliament and of the Council on payment services in the internal market. This article supersedes his article published online in June 2015….
In the first in our series of longer articles arising from the decision of the CJEU in Max Schrems v Data Protection Commissioner, Brad Smith, Microsoft’s president and chief legal officer, offers his thoughts on the likely effects….
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Laurence Eastham reviews the new book from joint authors, SCL President Richard Susskind and his son Daniel Susskind…
The Article 29 Working Party has agreed an official statement following the CJEU’s ruling in Schrems which casts great uncertainty over data transfers outside the EU…
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