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Article 29 WP on Online Behavioural Advertising

June 28, 2010

An Article 29 Working Party Opinion on online behavioural advertising was adopted on 22 June and has now been published….

All Quiet on the Courtroom Front

June 27, 2010

David Chaplin reports on the War Stories: Best Practice in IT Dispute Resolution Seminar held on 24 June…

EU Requires UK to Give the ICO More Powers

June 24, 2010

The EU Commission has formally requested the UK to strengthen the powers of the Information Commissioner…

Net Neutrality: Ofcom ‘opens debate’

June 24, 2010

Ofcom has published a discussion paper and is seeking views on net neutrality issues…

EDPS Opinion on EU/USA Banking Data Sharing

June 23, 2010

The European Data Protection Supervisor has published his Opinion on the draft agreement for the sharing of financial messaging, officially the Proposal for a Council Decision on the conclusion of the Agreement between the European Union and the United States of America on the processing and transfer of Financial Messaging Data from the European Union to the United States for purposes of the Terrorist Finance Tracking Program (TFTP II)…

Transparency and Publication of Personal Data

June 22, 2010

There is a newly published Advocate General Opinion on the publication of personal data in a case which may have real relevance to the new UK government’s moves to open up public information…

New gTLDs: Shaking up the Internet

June 17, 2010

The pool for domain names may well increase dramatically by late 2011 with the introduction of Internationalised Domain Names (IDNs) and a variety of different generic Top Level Domains (gTLDs). These developments will undoubtedly drive changes in businesses’ online reputation strategy and management. Nick Wenban-Smith explains the proposed new landscape and outlines how businesses can prepare for this imminent arrival of new domains….