In the Bavarian Lager case, the Court of Justice had to consider the scope of the protection of personal data in the context of claims to gain access to documents of EU institutions…
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Four Million Pints of Lager and a Million Packets of Crisps
That’s one answer to the question that springs to my mind after reading the judgment in the Bavarian Lager case….
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Machines Behaving Badly
Kirsten Whitfield reports on a joint meeting of the SCL London Group and Privacy & Data Protection Interest Group held on 27 May. Mark Watts of Bristows and Eduardo Ustaran of Field Fisher Waterhouse were the speakers at a lively meeting….
Article 29 WP on Online Behavioural Advertising
An Article 29 Working Party Opinion on online behavioural advertising was adopted on 22 June and has now been published….
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All Quiet on the Courtroom Front
David Chaplin reports on the War Stories: Best Practice in IT Dispute Resolution Seminar held on 24 June…
EU Requires UK to Give the ICO More Powers
The EU Commission has formally requested the UK to strengthen the powers of the Information Commissioner…
Net Neutrality: Ofcom ‘opens debate’
Ofcom has published a discussion paper and is seeking views on net neutrality issues…
EDPS Opinion on EU/USA Banking Data Sharing
The European Data Protection Supervisor has published his Opinion on the draft agreement for the sharing of financial messaging, officially the Proposal for a Council Decision on the conclusion of the Agreement between the European Union and the United States of America on the processing and transfer of Financial Messaging Data from the European Union to the United States for purposes of the Terrorist Finance Tracking Program (TFTP II)…
Google Wins in Viacom/YouTube Dispute
The judge in the long-running dispute between Viacom and You Tube (now a Google company) has granted Google’s application for summary judgment…
Transparency and Publication of Personal Data
There is a newly published Advocate General Opinion on the publication of personal data in a case which may have real relevance to the new UK government’s moves to open up public information…
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