When the UK transition period for leaving the EU finishes on 31 December 2020, the EU General Data Protection Regulation (GDPR) will not apply in the same way that it has done so. At 11pm on 31 Dec 20...
European Court of Human Rights holds that employer’s reading of employee’s private messages at work is lawful
The European Court of Human Rights has ruled that an employer was within its rights to sack a Romanian engineer after discovering that he had used a work Yahoo messaging account to correspond with his...
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...