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data protection

Data protection: Commission adopts adequacy decisions for the UK

13/07/2021(0)
  The Commission has today adopted two adequacy decisions for the United Kingdom – one under the General Data Protection Regulation (GDPR) and the other for the Law Enforcement ... Read More
brexit

Brexit: Extended period for personal data freely flow

30/12/2020(0)
The Information Commissioner’s Office (ico), the UK’s independent body set up to uphold information rights, has issued a statement in response to UK Government’s announcement on the extended period ... Read More
General Data Protection Regulation

GDPR close to one year anniversary; Has lived up to its potential?

08/05/2019(0)
The European Union’s General Data Protection Regulation was celebrated as a revolution in how internet privacy could be legislated. It was a reaction to long-term concerns in the EU ... Read More
General Data Protection Regulation

Europe’s new privacy law will change the web and more

16/04/2018(0)
Consumers have long wondered just what Google and Facebook know about them, and who else can access their personal data. But internet giants have little incentive to give straight ... Read More
data protection

EU Court Says Data-Transfer Pact With U.S. Violates Privacy

07/10/2015(0)
Decision will affect about 4,500 companies that move, store personal data The European Union’s highest court on Tuesday struck down a trans-Atlantic pact used by thousands of companies to ... Read More
data protection

The dark market for personal data urges for new laws

17/10/2014(0)
Companies should disclose the information they sell about us. Having eroded privacy for decades, shady, poorly regulated data miners, brokers and resellers have now taken creepy classification to a ... Read More
HMRC

How much is your personal data worth?

22/04/2014(0)
British ministers are looking at changes that will allow HMRC to sell taxpayers’ data to third parties. Putting aside the privacy issues, how much is personal data worth? As ... Read More
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