Keyword: data protection
- Accountability: Made to Measure Data Privacy Compliance for the Proactive? (06/09/2010)
Cynthia O’Donoghue and Nick Tyler give an account of the Article 29 Working Party Opinion 3/2010 on the Principle of Accountability and explain its importance - The iPad, the Cloud and Data Protection (06/08/2010)
Jon Bloor thinks that the enthusiastic reaction of many lawyers to the iPad may have to be tempered by a cool reflection on the dangers for data security that its adoption may entail. - FOI, Data Protection and Copyright – Irresolvable Conflicts? (13/07/2010)
Marion Oswald discusses the impact of the Freedom of Information Act and explores recent case law and technological developments - Oceans Apart: Overview of the US Legal Framework (20/05/2010)
In a companion piece to Susan Mann’s coverage of EU/USA data transfer issues, Liz Harding summarises the main relevant US legislation and regulatory mechanisms. - Ocean's Apart: Data Transfers between the EEA and USA (20/05/2010)
Susan Mann offers a current view of data transfer between the EEA and USA, examining the cultural and philosophical divides. She looks at Safe Harbor, Binding Corporate Rules and Model Contractual Clauses. - Does Your Firewall Have an Open Door? (24/03/2010)
Chris James covers firewalls, the risk to information security and data protection. - EU - Controllers and Processors: It’s all about Essential Means (15/03/2010)
The Article 29 Working Party recently published an Opinion on two of the key concepts under the Data Protection Directive - ‘data controller’ and ‘data processor’. Tanguy Van Overstraeten and Richard Cumbley explain that the distinction between the two has a number of practical implications including determining who is liable to comply with data protection law and whether processing clauses are required. - Unticking the Boxes – should IT laws comply with a post-crunch ethos? (01/02/2010)
In a thought-provoking piece arising from last year’s SCL Policy Forum, Graham Smith challenges some assumptions, queries a number of assertions and analyses the legislative approach that gives us most of our IT law. But he offers little hope for a future of better legislation in the field. - How To Make Bad Law (27/01/2010)
Professor Chris Reed draws some lessons from the experience of law-making in the computing and communications sector. He suggests that a focus on technical precision has given us some pretty bad law. - Why Does This Have to Be So Difficult? (07/01/2010)
Joel Harrison bemoans the unnecessary hurdles placed in the way of transfers to data processors outside the EEA. He suggests a way to end the ‘burden’ on gleeful bureaucrats and ease the life of the data protection lawyer.
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