Simon Brown and Helen Woollett explore and deplore the potential effect of Article 10 on the capacity of organisation concerned with financial services to monitor for fraud and other breaches of law…
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Carolina Gasparoli and Tim Hill recount the history of the battle to gain greater protection for LPP…
The Court of Justice of the European Union has declared that the agreement envisaged between the EU and Canada on the transfer of Passenger Name Record data may not be concluded in its current form, stating that several provisions of the draft agreement do not accord with fundamental rights recognised by the EU…
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Aaron Pickett looks back on the time when the IT Group developers took on the 24-hour Online Courts Hackathon challenge…
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The DEA implementation is now underway as the Digital Economy Act 2017 (Commencement No. 1) Regulations 2017 (SI 2017/765) is published….
The Government should pursue full regulatory equivalence with the EU with respect to data protection in order to ensure unhindered data flows between the UK and EU post-Brexit, offer stability and certainty for businesses and maintain police and security cooperation, says the EU Home Affairs Sub-Committee in its report entitled ‘Brexit: the EU data protection package’….
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Ashley Hurst sets out an approach to fake news that shifts the focus away from some of the more strident ‘calls for action’…
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Dr Paul Lambert summarises an important judgment of the Canadian Supreme Court and comments on its global impact…
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Advocate General Bobek considers that a company alleging that its personality rights have been infringed by the publication of information on the internet can take legal action in the Member State where it has its centre of interests for the entirety of the harm claimed…
Laurence Eastham reviews this close examination of international transfers from W Kuan Hon (Edward Elgar Publishing, 479 pp, £110/£99, ISBN 978 1 78643 196 7; also available as an ebook)….
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