Following the recent European Court of Justice case of Data Protection Commissioner v Facebook Ireland and Maximillian Schrems (Case C-311/18) EU:C:2020:559, the EU-US Privacy Shield can no longer be ...
Brexit and GDPR: What do I need to know?
As we hurriedly approach the March 2019 Brexit deadline, organisations in the United Kingdom and abroad are still ironing out the wrinkles in their new data protection standards and policies. With loo...
General Data Protection Regulation
On 25 May 2018 a new EU data protection law will come into place: the General Data Protection Regulation (GDPR). This sets out various rules relating to the holding, processing and distribution of per...
European Court of Justice has declared Safe Harbor invalid
On 6 October 2015 the European Court of Justice issued a judgement in favour of a private individual Mr Schrems, against Facebook, declaring as inadequate the protection provided by the US safe harbou...
Data protection and direct marketing
Communicating with customers is an important marketing activity for businesses. There are, however, legal requirements covering the collection and storage of personal data and its use in marketing. Th...