Culture Minister queries EU data protection proposals
The Government’s Culture Minister, Ed Vaizey, has given a statement on the development of European Union (EU) data protection laws. The statement was made in a speech to the Internet Advertising Bureau...
View ArticleNew data protection proposals announced for the EU
The European Union Justice Commissioner Viviane Reding has launched the European Commission’s proposals for the reform of the data protection regime in the EU, with the aim of increasing a person’s...
View ArticleInformation Commissioner’s Office gives mixed reaction to proposed new EU...
The Information Commissioner’s Office – the UK’s data protection regulator – has given a mixed reaction to the proposed new European Union’s data protection laws. Overall, the ICO welcomes a lot of the...
View ArticleCBI attacks “unworkable” EU data protection proposals
The Confederation of British Industry has attacked the European Commission’s proposals for new data protection laws as “unworkable” and said that they add complexity, cost and uncertainty. They would...
View ArticleBusiness gives big thumbs down to proposed new EU data protection laws
The new European Union data protection laws would hit small business hard, according to a letter to Ministers by various business groups, including the Internet Advertising Bureau, the Federation of...
View ArticleGoogle as data controller
Probably just about every lawyer in London with an interest in data protection will be putting something on the net concerning the Google case that came out of the Grand Chamber of the European Court...
View ArticleICO gives Google time to comply with “right to be forgotten” landmark judgment
Not long after Google was rocked with a landmark data protection judgment from the European Court of Justice which will fundamentally affect its business model, the search engine giant has been given...
View ArticleNewspaper not required to remove old articles from online archive
Newspaper publishers are not required to remove old articles from their online archives, according to the Information Commissioner’s Office. The UK’s data protection regulator heard a complaint from a...
View ArticleHouse of Lords report comes out against European “right to be forgotten”...
The House of Lords EU Home Affairs Health and Education Sub-Committee has published a report criticising the lack of balance under European Union law between the right to privacy (which is now well...
View ArticleArticle 29 Working Party sets up “right to be forgotten” dashboard
The Article 29 Working Party has decided to set up a dashboard for handling cases, and to provide a network of specialists, to handle the growing volume of “right to be forgotten” requests across the...
View ArticleHegglin and Google settle Court case over right for defamatory material to be...
Mr Hegglin and Google have reached a confidential out-of-court settlement after the Internet search giant had lost round one of their court battle in July. Mr Hegglin won a preliminary hearing in the...
View ArticleArticle 29 Working Party provides guidance on implementing European Court of...
The Article 29 Working Party has issued guidelines on the implementation of the 2014 European Court of Justice case involving Google in which the highest court in the European Union had sent shockwaves...
View ArticleGoogle still only removing people’s data from European domains in “right to...
Google is still coming to grips with the landmark data protection ruling last year which required search engines to remove, upon request from a data subject, search results about him/her that were too...
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