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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Wendy Lawson-Shanks explains why the IACCM is looking at new approaches to contract standards and outlines her view of the future…
Olivia Whitcroft takes a careful look at DPIAs in light of the further guidance on the GDPR that has been issued since its finalisation…
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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Richard Bush highlights an issue that few involved in esports organisation will have considered….
Sometimes a punishment is necessary – even when it’s pointless. Laurence Eastham joins the despair over the ICO’s approach on enforcement in light of the Royal Free/DeepMind ‘failure to comply’…
In anticipation of an increased risk of ‘dawn raids’, Dr Tristan Jenkinson highlights some of the key areas that companies should consider…
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