New Zealand’s Electronic Courts and Tribunals Act 2016
David Harvey describes the provisions of this new Act and explains why he feels it is something of a disappointment…
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Privacy & Data Protection
Book Review: Guide to the General Data Protection Regulation
Ann Kristin Glenster reviews this companion to the 4th edition of Data Protection Law and Practice which is edited by Rosemary Jay and which was published in February (Sweet and Maxwell, 2017, £165, 447 pp, index 23 pp, ISBN: 9780414061019….
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GDPR and HR: Who is Your Lead Supervisory Authority?
Razia Begum and Rachel Ashwood examine how the lead supervisory authority is determined for multi-national organisations that process HR data….
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Striking an Appropriate Balance: the UK Data Retention Regime and the IPA 2016
Tristan Goodman questions whether the UK data regime strikes an appropriate balance between efficiency and legitimacy…
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Singapore: Public Consultation on Proposed Changes to the Personal Data Protection Act
Darren Grayson Chng, our Associate Editor for Singapore, outlines proposals to modify their Personal Data Protection Act 2012, which came into operation in 2014….
Editorial August/September
In an issue dominated by reflections of the stellar June SCL Conference and July’s wonderful Online Courts Hackathon, Laurence Eastham chooses to moan about government incompetence in dealing with the GDPR….
Data Protection Bill: Statement of Intent Published
The DCMS has published a statement of intent covering the proposed contents of the Data Protection Bill…
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Overview of Singapore’s draft Cybersecurity Bill
Darren Grayson Chng, our Associate Editor for Singapore, summarises the Bill and local reaction to it….
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Application of Article 10 of the GDPR to the Financial Services’ Sector in the UK
Simon Brown and Helen Woollett explore and deplore the potential effect of Article 10 on the capacity of organisation concerned with financial services to monitor for fraud and other breaches of law…
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CJEU Declares EU/Canada PNR Agreement Invalid
The Court of Justice of the European Union has declared that the agreement envisaged between the EU and Canada on the transfer of Passenger Name Record data may not be concluded in its current form, stating that several provisions of the draft agreement do not accord with fundamental rights recognised by the EU…
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