Jul 16, 2020 | Covid-19, Data Privacy, Data Protection, Health, Privacy
The global COVID-19 pandemic has focused minds sharply on the valuable role to be played by data collection and analysis for advancing health research, especially how it may help in informing and developing policy responses. Modern health research requires vast...
May 14, 2020 | Covid-19, Data Privacy, Government policy, Privacy
Different groups of people have different experiences of COVID-19, but we don’t have the data to come up with a response that reflects that. Yui Mok/PA Wire/PA Images If one thing is clear by now from the coronavirus pandemic, it is that the disease does not affect...
May 7, 2020 | Covid-19, Data Privacy, Data Protection, ILPC Research and Publications, Privacy
Our director, Dr Nóra Ni Loideain, submitted written evidence to the Joint Committee on Human Rights concerning the NHSX contact-tracing app, which is going to be rolled out by the UK government in order to reduce Covid-19 transmissions. The submission can be read...
Apr 27, 2020 | Data Privacy, Data Protection, Privacy
Dr. Christopher Kuner is professor of law and co-director of the Brussels Privacy Hub, a research centre at the Vrije Universiteit Brussel (VUB) in Brussels, Belgium. He is also an associate of the Centre for European Legal Studies at the University of Cambridge, and...
Mar 11, 2020 | Data Privacy, Privacy
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...
Mar 11, 2020 | Data Privacy, Data Protection, Privacy
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. Consequent...
