Martin Sloan and Kathryn Alexander look at the effect of the GDPR on younger users and the controversial restrictions on their use of online services…
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The European Court of Human Rights has ruled that a self-regulatory body and an Internet news portal were not liable for the offensive online comments of their readers…
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Mark O’Conor has taken over from Roger Bickerstaff as Chair of SCL. Laurence Eastham got to talk to them both about what it means for SCL…
The Information Commissioner’s Office has published a revised Privacy Notices Code of Practice and is seeking a range of views on that revised code and a number of related matters….
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The EU Commission announces an agreement with US negotiators on new framework for transatlantic data flows: the EU-US Privacy Shield…
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Chris Bridges focuses on the impact of the GDPR on one particular data-dependent industry….
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In the latest in our series of articles focusing on aspects of the GDPR, Tim Hickman and Dr. Detlev Gabel review the various rights granted under the GDPR, consider how they differ from the current set of rights set out in the Directive and go on to consider the impact that each such right is likely to have on organisations that act as data controllers….
Darren Jones gives readers a light introduction to some of the themes he will be covering in greater depth in later articles on DSM…
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Although adopted in December, the latest opinions of the Article 29 Working Party have only now been published. The first, Opinion 175/16/EN WP 234, has the full title ‘Guidelines for Member States on the criteria to ensure compliance with data protection requirements in the context of the automatic exchange of personal data for tax purposes’…
Sarah Pearce reviews the position on Safe Harbor/Harbour and suggests a way forward…