Cookies: An evolving picture
Often website owners aren’t even aware that their websites are dropping cookies, especially those cookies which are used for behavioural advertising. Using […]
The origin of Data Protection Impact Assessments
The use of an assessment methodology to personal understand privacy risks and rights has been known since the mid-1990s [1]. The growing […]
Cookies Can Kill You!
Website owners targeting EU and EEA EFTA residents must take steps to protect themselves following yet another court ruling. Websites that drop third-party […]
Convention 108: What and who?
As we have written about elsewhere on this site, Convention 108 was the first enforceable Data Protection transnational legislation globally. As the […]
Where can my personal data go? GDPR & Geography
Much has been written about the Brussels effect and how the EU is a regulatory superpower. This article is about a different […]
Brexit & International Data Transfers
International data transfers from the EU EU data protection law has evolved to provides common standards for data protection across Member States. […]
European Data Protection and Data Privacy law
Without doubt Europe is driving the emergence of Data Protection laws across the globe. This tends to be framed as a result of […]
European supranational legal orders
The mess of acronyms which denote various European organisations can be overwhelming. None more so that the legal orders and courts involved […]
Re-Identification of anonymised data sets
Many people seem that believe that a personal data can be anonymised by just writing over the identifier with asterixis. This is […]
Do I have to do a Data Protection Impact Assessment?
The law across Europe now says a DPIA is required when the processing is “likely to result in a high risk to the rights and […]