The Insolvency (Protection of Essential Supplies) Order 2015 comes into force on 1 October 2015. Rita Lowe and Helen Coverdale offer a reminder and make some suggestions for suppliers and insolvency practitioners…
The Court of Justice of the European Union has given judgment in a case concerning the reach of data protection supervisors, ruling that one Member State’s supervisor can have jurisdiction on organisations mainly established beyond the border of that State. Lorna Woods reports on the case and explains its implications…
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The Court of Justice of the European Union has ruled that persons whose personal data are subject to transfer and processing between two public administrative bodies must be informed in advance…
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Hans Allnutt, David Bear, and Clare Hughes-Williams survey the increasing exposure of insurers in a burgeoning area for insurers that has seen a recent explosive twist that they may not have taken into account…
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The Advocate General has released his Opinion in a case referred to the CJEU which concerned the transfer of the data of European Facebook subscribers to servers located in the United States. If his Opinion is followed by the Court, safe harbour will crumble….
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The President of the CNIL has rejected Google’s informal appeal against the formal notice requesting it to apply delisting on all of the search engine’s domain names, including google.com. Are the suggestions that the CNIL is seeking world domination justified?…
Following the UsedSoft ruling, Robin Fry asks where we are now…
The latest ICO enforcement notice, arising under the ‘right to be forgotten’, seems like a futile gesture….
The long-running EU-US data protection ‘Umbrella agreement’ negotiations have been finalised and the agreement has been initialled….
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The Information Commissioner’s appeal against a decision of the First-tier Tribunal has been unsuccessful….