Operation payback
By Susan Singleton A law firm that pursues the owners of internet accounts linked to alleged illegal downloads of music and films is facing investigation by UK data protection officials after the...
View ArticleData protection: red tape and pointless protection?
By Ian Mcdougall History and implementation The EU has recently commenced a review of the data protection regime across Europe. It comes as a surprise to no one that it has found that the...
View ArticleThe new EU data protection framework: uniform, prescriptive and ambitious
By Eduardo Ustaran, Partner and Head of the Privacy and Information Law Group These are truly exhilarating times for the data protection world. Viviane Reding’s recent announcement of the Commission’s...
View ArticleOnline privacy: Big Brother will be watching you – but he’ll have his hands full
By Simon Hetherington It’s pretty hard to do anything these days without someone knowing what you’re up to. The minutiae of our lives can be pieced together by hundreds of different agencies tracking...
View ArticleMission: interoperability
By Eduardo Ustaran Obama gets it. Viviane Reding gets it. This is indeed a defining moment to get our public policies right in terms of global data protection and privacy. Ignore the human and social...
View ArticleClarifying cookie consent
By Eduardo Ustaran Three years have gone by since the European Parliament shocked and awed everyone by tweaking the e-privacy directive and introducing the most controversial word in the data...
View ArticleData protection: getting the “one stop shop” principle to work
By Eduardo Ustaran Going all the way to the Rio de la Plata to discuss the content of the future European data protection framework seems a little over the top, but the recent International Privacy...
View ArticleProposed reforms undermine the Rehabilitation of Offenders Act 1974
By Lucy Corrin Imagine you are a middle-aged man with a young family looking to change career to work as a primary school teacher. When you were 12 you took a chocolate bar from a shop. You learnt a...
View ArticleRight to privacy: can we really trust Google Glass?
By David Cook It is difficult to have missed the hype surrounding Google Glass (referred to simply as “Glass”), not only because of its futuristic technological capabilities and design, but also the...
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Examining the new Criminal Procedure Rules 2015
How have the new Criminal Procedure Rules 2015 (Crim PR 2015) restated or amended previous legislation? Previous legislation on Criminal Procedure Rules is replaced with new and consolidated rules. The...
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