Lorna Woods: Safe Harbour – Key Aspects of the ECJ Ruling
On Tuesday (6 October) the Court of Justice of the European Union (ECJ) declared that the Safe Harbour agreement that allows the movement of digital data between the EU and the US was invalid. The case was brought by Max Schrems, an Austrian student and privacy...
Lorna Woods: Schrems v Data Protection Commissioner – The beginning of the end for safe harbour?
The Advocate General of the European Court of Justice has delivered his non-binding legal opinion in Schrems v. Data Protection Commissioner, a case brought by an Austrian citizen against the Irish Data Protection Commissioner concerning the transfer of Facebook data...
Eerke Boiten: Privacy watchdog takes first step against those undermining right to be forgotten
This guest post by Eerke Boiten, University of Kent, considers the implications of granting an individual the right to be de-listed from online search results: should new articles about de-listed content be removed too? The UK’s data privacy watchdog has waded into...
Resources from Data of our Lives: Global Privacy, Reputation and Freedom of Expression – with Frank LaRue
Videos and slides from the Information Law and Policy Centre’s half-day discussion seminar on 25th June, supported by Article 19 and with special guest Frank LaRue, former UN special rapporteur on freedom of expression, are now available: Video Frank LaRue,...