[this article is based on the draft text published by the European Council on 28th January 2016. Recital and article numbers, at least, will change before the final text] When individuals register to access a website or other on-line service, it’s common to have to provide a significant amount of personal data. Some of this […]
The Commission’s original draft Regulation included explicit support for the work of computer security and incident response teams, recognising that such activities were a legitimate interest that involved processing of personal data. Furthermore the legal requirements implied by using the legitimate interests justification (notably ensuring that those interests not be overridden by the rights and […]
Roughly what I said in my Digifest presentation yesterday Since the Prevent duty, to help those at risk of radicalisation, was applied to universities and colleges there has been a lot of discussion of what role technology can play. The first thing to note is that, although there is a section on “IT Policies” in […]
The European Council of Ministers have now published a proposed text for the General Data Protection Regulation. This still needs to be edited by the Commission’s “lawyer-linguists” to check for inconsistencies, sort out the numbering of recitals and articles etc. But the working parties of both the Parliament and the Council have recommended that the […]