Cats, Chickens and Elephants
In the latest in our series of articles on Schrems, Paul Bernal offers his views on the effect of the judgment and the context in which it should be seen…
Privacy & Data Protection
The Draft Investigatory Powers Bill – Achieving a Good Faith Debate
Marion Oswald writes about the danger of anger and conflicting or simplistic argument obscuring the things that matter when serious issues surrounding the detail of the draft Investigatory Powers Bill need to be examined….
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Can We Write Better Contracts?
Andrew Hooles thinks that we can. His article suggests several areas for improvement and is intended to be a call to action….
The EU-US Safe Harbour Decision is Dead. Long Live its Successor?
Julia Hörnle analyses the Schrems judgment in depth and considers its implications…
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EU Commission Communication on Transfer of Personal Data
The EU Commission has published guidance on transfers of personal data following the Schrems judgment of the CJEU…
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A Quick Overview of the Draft Investigatory Powers Bill
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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Monetary Penalty for CPS
The ICO has given details of its latest monetary penalty…
Investigatory Powers Bill
The long awaited Bill has now been published…
Editorial
Case law changes and the GDPR The CJEU judgment in Case C-362/14 Maximillian Schrems v Data Protection Commissioner came very late in the course of preparation for this issue. But so much was said about it so quickly that it would have been possible to have covered it in an article. I felt that the…
Cases Round-up
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…