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 […]
EU GDPR
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].
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.
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
Brexit, EU GDPR, GDPR, Geopolitics
Brexit & International Data Transfers
International data transfers from the EU EU data protection law has evolved to provides common standards for data protection across
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
European supranational legal orders
The mess of acronyms which denote various European organisations can be overwhelming. None more so that the legal orders and
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.
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