Killing Cloud Quickly, with GDPR…?
Kuan Hon mourns the (impending) death of cloud computing at the hands of the GDPR, and even suggests a song to sing while preparing for its demise…
Privacy & Data Protection
GDPR: the Science – no, Art – of Pseudonymisation and Anonymisation
In the latest in our series of articles on the GDPR, Cynthia O’Donoghue and Tom Evans give their take on its impact on pseudonymisation and anonymisation…
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Article 29 Working Party Statement re Schrems, Safe Harbour and the Privacy Shield
Following the presentation by the EU Commission of its proposals for a replacement for Safe Harbour – the Privacy Shield – the Article 29 Working Party has released a statement of its position….
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GDPR and the Digital Age of Consent for Online Services
Martin Sloan and Kathryn Alexander look at the effect of the GDPR on younger users and the controversial restrictions on their use of online services…
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New Court Judgment on Intermediary Body’s Liability for User Comments
The European Court of Human Rights has ruled that a self-regulatory body and an Internet news portal were not liable for the offensive online comments of their readers…
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Passing the Baton
Mark O’Conor has taken over from Roger Bickerstaff as Chair of SCL. Laurence Eastham got to talk to them both about what it means for SCL…
ICO Consultation on Privacy Notices Code of Practice
The Information Commissioner’s Office has published a revised Privacy Notices Code of Practice and is seeking a range of views on that revised code and a number of related matters….
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Safe Harbour’s Successor? The EU-US Privacy Shield
The EU Commission announces an agreement with US negotiators on new framework for transatlantic data flows: the EU-US Privacy Shield…
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GDPR: The End for the Marketing List Industry?
Chris Bridges focuses on the impact of the GDPR on one particular data-dependent industry….
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Rights of Data Subjects under the GDPR
In the latest in our series of articles focusing on aspects of the GDPR, Tim Hickman and Dr. Detlev Gabel review the various rights granted under the GDPR, consider how they differ from the current set of rights set out in the Directive and go on to consider the impact that each such right is likely to have on organisations that act as data controllers….