Children (and adults alike) seem to be ‘playing tag’ with a sophisticated and fast-changing digital environment whose privacy parameters are hard to define and consequences even harder to predict. Read the rest of this entry »
Putting children at the centre: is re-designing the digital environment possible? – Mariya Stoilova and Sonia Livingstone
23 06 2019Comments : Leave a Comment »
Tags: Children's Rights, ICO, LSE Media Policy Project Blog, Mariya Stoilova, Sonia Livingstone
Categories : Data Protection, Government and Policy
Data Protection: ICO reports on Adtech and Real Time Bidding, finds that data protection laws are being ignored
22 06 2019
On 20 June 2019 the Information Commissioner’s Office published its Update Report into Adtech and Real Time Bidding [pdf] dealing with the use of personal data the real time bidding (“RTB”) process in online advertising. Read the rest of this entry »
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Tags: Adtech, ICO, Surveillance Capitalism
Categories : Data Protection, Government and Policy
GDPR: The digital age of consent, one year on – Alex Cooney
24 05 2019
This Saturday, 25 May, will be the one year anniversary of Europe’s General Data Protection Regulation (GDPR) coming into force. Alex Cooney, CEO of CyberSafeIreland, a non-profit working to empower children, parents and teachers to navigate the online world in a safe and responsible manner, discusses the impact of the regulation on children, particularly the GDPR’s requirement for a digital age of consent. Read the rest of this entry »
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Tags: Alex Cooney, Children, LSE. Media Policy Project
Categories : Data Protection, EU
Case Law: Rudd v Bridle, Asbestos industry advisor ordered to answer physician’s subject access requests – Hugh Tomlinson QC
9 05 2019
In Rudd v Bridle [2019] EWHC 893 (QB), Warby J tried a number of issues arising out of a data subject access request (“DSAR”) under s.7 of the Data Protection Act 1998 (“the DPA 1998”). He held that information provided to the Claimant was inadequate, rejected the Defendant’s entitlement to rely on three claimed exemptions and ordered him to provide the Claimant with further information. Read the rest of this entry »
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Tags: Hugh Tomlinson QC, Subject Access Request
Categories : Data Protection
News: Supreme Court grants permission to appeal in the Morrisons mass data breach case
3 05 2019
On 15 April 2019, the UK Supreme Court granted permission to appeal in the data protection group action case of Various Claimants v W M Morrison Supermarkets. The Court of Appeal ([2018] EWCA Civ 2339) had upheld the Judge’s ruling that Morrisons was vicariously liable for its employee’s data breach. Read the rest of this entry »
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Tags: Group Litigation, Morrisons, UK Supreme Court
Categories : Data Protection, Legal
74 screens of legalese don’t protect your data: here’s a blueprint for new laws that could make a difference – Fred H Cate
20 04 2019
All over the world, government officials are trying to figure out how to craft laws and regulations about privacy – especially for digital data and online activity. The European Union’s General Data Protection Regulation took effect in May 2018; about a month later, California’s new Consumer Privacy Act did too. Both impose stringent new legal requirements on organizations that collect and use personal data. Read the rest of this entry »
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Tags: Fred H Cate, The Conversation
Categories : Data Protection, Privacy
Twins separated at birth: The re-convergence of data protection and freedom of information – Perry Keller
23 02 2019
The governance of decision-making algorithms is now a pressing issue across many fields of law and policy. Yet, given the technical opacity of advanced data analytics, finding ways to ensure meaningful transparency and sustainable accountability is currently, at best, a work in progress. Read the rest of this entry »
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Categories : Data Protection, EU, Freedom of Information, Human Rights
European Data Protection and Freedom of Expression After Buivids: An Increasingly Significant Tension, Part Two. The Analysis – David Erdos
22 02 2019
The outcome in Buivids draws significantly on long-standing CJEU jurisprudence. Thus, as far back as 2003, Lindqvist had already stressed the broad material applicability of data protection in an online publishing context and also argued that the personal/household exemption was not applicable where “data are made accessible to an indefinite number of people” (at [47]). Read the rest of this entry »
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Tags: David Erdos, Journalistic Exemption
Categories : Data Protection, EU, Journalism
European Data Protection and Freedom of Expression After Buivids: An Increasingly Significant Tension, Part One. The Decision – David Erdos
21 02 2019
On 14 February 2019 the Court of Justice of the European Union (CJEU) handed down its decision in Buivids, a case which pitted an amateur individual online publisher against the Latvian Data Protection Authority (DPA). Read the rest of this entry »
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Categories : Data Protection, EU, Journalism
Social media doesn’t need new regulations to make the internet safer: GDPR can do the job – Eerke Boiten
16 02 2019
From concerns about data sharing to the hosting of harmful content, every week seems to bring more clamour for new laws to regulate the technology giants and make the internet “safer”. But what if our existing data protection laws, at least in Europe, could achieve most of the job? Read the rest of this entry »
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Tags: Eerke Boiten, Facebook, The Conversation
Categories : Data Protection, EU, Internet, Media Regulation, Social Media
