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Kingsley Napley’s Medical Negligence Team ‘walks together’ with the Dame Vera Lynn Children’s Charity
Sharon Burkill
23 October 2017
The EU-US Privacy Shield – One Year On and Still Going Strong
The EU-US Privacy Shield was established by the EU Commission in August 2016 to replace the previous ‘Safe Harbour’ system, which was ruled unlawful by the European Court of Justice (to read the ECJ’s decision, see here).
6 September 2017
Data Protection – can employers still monitor employees’ communications in light of Barbulescu v Romania?
Can employers still monitor employees’ communications in light of Barbulescu v Romania? Don’t panic, they can. But, the decision in Barbulescu v Romania from the appeal chamber of the European Court of Human Rights (ECtHR) shows that, in future, they must apply their mind in a much more rigorous way to how they go about it.
30 August 2017
Block chain: Is the GDPR out of date already?
The General Data Protection Regulation (“GDPR”) amounts to a significant overhaul of existing data protection regulation and is designed to be ‘technology neutral’. However, how the GDPR will cope with emerging block chain technology and a move towards the decentralisation of data storage remains to be seen.
26 June 2017
Data Protection – 10 further top tips for responding to subject access requests
Not long ago, we distilled a series of recent cases and produced practical guidance (see here and here) for employers on dealing with subject access requests under the Data Protection Act 1998 (“SARs”). These blogs were intended to complement our earlier blog “Top 10 tips for responding to a subject access request”, which was prepared with the Information Commissioner’s (“ICO”) original code of practice in mind. That code of practice has now been re-issued in light of the recent guidance from the courts and can be found on the ICO’s website here. The code itself is lengthy and detailed, but in this blog, we have picked out another top 10 tips from the most useful and practical additions to the revised code.
20 April 2017
Data Protection – even MORE practical guidance from recent case law on subject access requests
Last month we blogged on two recent cases which collated practical guidance from the courts on subject access requests (“SARs”) and foreshadowed another Court of Appeal decision on the same topic.