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European Law on Public Authorities

It’s pretty clear from the context and implications that when European legislators wrote “public authority” into the General Data Protection Regulation they didn’t mean the same as the drafters of the UK’s Freedom of Information Acts. “Public authority” isn’t defined in the Regulation and I’ve not been able to find it in any other European […]

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GDPR: Backups, Archives and the Right to Erasure

I was recently asked how the GDPR’s Right to Erasure would affect backups and archives. However that right, created by Article 17 of the GDPR, only arises when a data controller no longer has a legal basis for processing personal data. Provided an organisation is implementing an appropriate backup and archiving strategy, that shouldn’t happen. […]