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Privacy Impact Assessments Consultation: SCL Response

November 7, 2013

SCL’s response to the ICO’s call for views on its Code of Practice for conducting Privacy Impact Assessments has now been published…

EDPS Comments on Proposal for Tax Co-operation

November 7, 2013

The European Data Protection Supervisor has published comments on the proposal for a Council Directive amending the Directive 2011/16/EU on administrative cooperation in the field of taxation. He expresses clear concern about the data protection implications….

ENISA: Recommended Cryptographic Measures for Personal Data

November 7, 2013

ENISA, the European Union’s ‘cyber security’ Agency, has published a report recommending that all authorities should better promote cryptographic measure to safeguard personal data….

Data Protection Monetary Penalties: Absolutely Criminal?

November 6, 2013

In the space of little more than eight weeks, the Information Rights Tribunal has recently quashed two ‘Civil Monetary Penalties’ totalling £550,000. Paul Motion and Laura Irvine consider the decisions and argue that such Monetary Penalties are properly categorised as criminal, with significant consequences for both the Information Commissioner and a data controller under investigation for a data protection breach. See also the authors’ article ‘Cake or Death?’…

Drones: Not Just about Data

November 4, 2013

Alan McKenna looks at the wider potential legal impact of proliferating drone use…

Jurisdiction Reminder: Scotland’s Still in the UK

October 30, 2013

The English High Court recently offered a reminder that web site references to the UK include Scotland, when accepting that the Scottish courts had sole jurisdiction in a claim by an English company against consumers in Scotland…