After years of uncertainty, the EU-UK Trade and Cooperation Agreement finally establishes a basis for future relations. Personal data governance was an important part of the negotiations and the Agreement includes a number of provisions in this area. Continue reading
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The General Data Protection Regulation (GDPR) 2016/679’s attempt to craft a common human rights approach to especially digitized natural person information and from that enable the free flow of such information across Europe is deeply admirable. Continue reading
Even though European data protection attempts to craft a harmonized approach to some of the pressing and unwieldy issues in contemporary digital reality, there is much more than is commonly recognised to learn from the different experiences of European countries not only currently but across the whole sweep of this framework’s history. Continue reading
This is the second part of a post dealing with the European Data Protection Board (EDPB)’s draft guidelines on the right to be forgotten. Part (1) dealt with the scope of the guidance and of ex post rights vis-à-vis search engines. This post will deal with (2) the substantive grounds for exercising these ex post rights, and (3) the substantive exemptions from these ex post rights. Continue reading
Securing workable, balanced and effective individual rights regarding personal data disseminated online is vital to the future of data protection and should be a significant focus of attention for the European Data Protection Board going forward. Continue reading
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]). Continue reading
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). Continue reading
Especially in Britain given our intended imminent departure from the EU, it is clear that the Council of Europe has crucial significance to our continent and indeed the world. Founded as far back as 1949 and with 47 Member States with over 800 million people, it focuses on some of the most difficult and controversial issues concerning human rights, democracy and the rule of law. Continue reading
One of the main findings of Lord Justice Leveson’s Inquiry into the Culture, Practices and Ethics of the Press was that that the Information Commissioner’s Office (ICO) did not have sufficient procedural powers to ensure that journalists did not seriously abuse personal data. Continue reading
The Court of Justice’s seminal decision in Google Spain (2014) represented more the beginning rather than the endpoint of specifying the European data protection obligations of search engines when indexing material from the web and, as importantly, ensuring adherence to this. Continue reading
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