Schrems: Safe Harbor Certainty Destroyed
The CJEU has ruled that the EU Commission’s Safe Harbor decision, that the USA ensures an adequate level of protection of the personal data transferred, is not conclusive of the issue….
Publishing & social media
Schrems: Comments and Reaction
Such has been the welter of reaction to the CJEU judgment ‘invalidating Safe Harbour’ that readers may find it useful to have a guide to some of the comments of value…
RtbF: Whose law is it anyway?
Caroline Thompson asks ‘Can Google just pick and choose which laws apply online?’…
Weltimmo Judgment: Data Protection Jurisdiction
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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Not so Safe Harbour: Advocate General’s Opinion in Schrems
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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Fresh Starts and Freshening Skills
Roger Bickerstaff offers a welcome and has some suggestions for self-improvement…
Employment: Social Media and Dismissal
Paul Mander explains how a Facebook brag left a British Waterways employee in the drink…
Cases Round-up
Data Retention: 35-year Retention Policy Upheld In a judicial review action, R (C) v Northumberland County Council & Anor [2015] EWHC (Admin) 2134, the Administrative Court (Simon J) has ruled that the data retention policy of Northumberland County Council is lawful. The claimant (C) felt that he and his family had been the subject of…
Technology Law Futures Conference – Evening Keynote Report
Flora Blackett-Ord reports on the talk from Dylan Evans on ‘The Great AI Swindle’ which was the evening keynote at the SCL Technology Law Futures Conference. This article previously appeared as a news item on the site….
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Editorial
This issue includes a number of articles that arise from or are inspired by the SCL Technology Law Futures Conference, which was hosted and sponsored by Herbert Smith Freehills in June. I hope that the next issue of the magazine will have further material arising from that Conference. I am grateful to those involved and…