Farming: Computer law’s new (rather old) frontier
Dr Fernando Barrio reveals a crop of IP, data and privacy issues associated with new techniques in agricultural production….
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Pseudonymisation best practices and techniques: ENISA publishes recommendations
Report explores the basic concepts of pseudonymisation, as well as technical solutions that can support implementation in practice….
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Calculating administrative fines under GDPR: the new German Concept
Christian Leuthner and Sven Schonhofen provide an overview of the Concept for calculating fines under the GDPR recently published by the German DPAs and which may point the way for further guidance from the EDPB…
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This week’s Techlaw News Round-Up
MEP priorities for Digital Services, Act, ICO blog post, e-scooter inqury, CAA drone guidance, European parliament briefing on cryptoassets, WTO e-commerce report, ICANN consultation and reports on contract tracing in this week’s round-up of techlaw news from the past week….
This week’s Techlaw News Round-Up
Court of Appeal grants leave to appeal in facial recognition case The Court of Appeal has granted leave to appeal the High Court decision in R (on the application of Bridges) v Chief Constable of South Wales Police (Information Commissioner and another intervening) [2019] EWHC 2341, relating to South Wales’ police use of facial recognition…
ICO seeks views on Proceeds of Crime Act powers
The ICO is consulting on an application to be given investigative and other powers under the Proceeds of Crime Act 2002 to close potential gap between civil and criminal fines…
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European Council adopts new consumer law directive
The Directive aims to modernise consumer law, especially in relation to online trade…
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Data Protection Act 2018 (Commencement No 3) Regulations 2019 made The Data Protection Act 2018 (Commencement No. 3) Regulations 2019 SI 2019/1434 have been made. These regulations are the third commencement regulations made under the Data Protection Act 2018. They bring into force paragraphs 211 and 227 of Schedule 19 to the Act on 2…
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Jobs Half Done: Getting Smart about Smartphones
Peter Leonard on why our thinking about how to control the data ecosystems that smartphones have created is still a work in progress….
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When it comes to online privacy “the consent model is broken” says The Joint Select Committee on human rights
Concerns expressed in their report on Right to Privacy (Article 8) and the Digital Revolution…