The Information Commissioner’s Office has published a new article on how they are responding to the European Court’s Safe Harbor judgment. The overall message is that data controllers should take stock and not panic. While noting that the judgment does remove some of the former legal certainty, the ICO is “certainly not rushing to use […]
The Article 29 Working Party of European Data Protection supervisors has now published its response to the European Court’s ruling that the US-EU Safe Harbor agreement can no longer be relied upon when exporting personal data from the European Economic Area. Like the UK Information Commissioner’s earlier statement, they recognise that data exporters and US […]
[Updated to include UCISA Model Regulations] After short debates in the Houses of Commons and Lords the legal duties on universities and colleges to address risks of radicalisation came into force on 18th September. The Government’s guidance is unchanged from the drafts published in July. In last week’s debates the Government again stressed that measures […]
The European Court’s declaration today that the European Commission’s fifteen year old decision on the US Safe Harbor scheme is no longer reliable is another recognition that Data Protection requires continuing assessment, rather than one-off decisions. European regulators have been recommending for years that neither data controllers nor companies to which they export data should […]
The new European Data Protection Regulation is relevant to many areas of our work. Yesterday I had the opportunity to look at its likely effect on information security at a Jisc Special Interest Group meeting. For now, we’re still working from the three draft texts published by the European Commission in 2012, the Parliament in […]