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….
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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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(Turning Your) Back to the Future
Charles Drayson offers his thoughts on the future, inspired by the new book from Daniel and Richard Susskind, ‘The Future of the Professions’…
Practical Advice in the Aftermath of Safe Harbour and the Schrems Ruling
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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SCL Annual Lecture: Dame Wendy Hall
Laurence Eastham reports on the Lecture from Dame Wendy Hall under the title ‘The Evolution of the Web: From the Wild West to a Brave New World?’…
Schrems: Safe Harbor Certainty Destroyed
The CJEU has ruled that the EU Commission’s Safe Harbor decision, that the USA ensures an adequate level of protection of the personal data transferred, is not conclusive of the issue….
Schrems: Comments and Reaction
Such has been the welter of reaction to the CJEU judgment ‘invalidating Safe Harbour’ that readers may find it useful to have a guide to some of the comments of value…
RtbF: Whose law is it anyway?
Caroline Thompson asks ‘Can Google just pick and choose which laws apply online?’…
Weltimmo Judgment: Data Protection Jurisdiction
The Court of Justice of the European Union has given judgment in a case concerning the reach of data protection supervisors, ruling that one Member State’s supervisor can have jurisdiction on organisations mainly established beyond the border of that State. Lorna Woods reports on the case and explains its implications…
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Not so Safe Harbour: Advocate General’s Opinion in Schrems
The Advocate General has released his Opinion in a case referred to the CJEU which concerned the transfer of the data of European Facebook subscribers to servers located in the United States. If his Opinion is followed by the Court, safe harbour will crumble….
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