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During a plenary meeting on January 13, 2015, the MEPs at the EU Parliament discussed whether a “structural” surveillance justified by “national security” would excuse tapping conversations between lawyers and their clients. The MEPs debated on how to balance national security needs and the right to confidentiality of communications between lawyers and suspects or accused […]

Authors describe the content of the letter sent the EU Article 29 Data Protection Working Party (WP29) to clarify the scope of the definition of health data concerning lifestyle and wellbeing apps. The full text is available at http://www.corderycompliance…

Author describes how German data protection authorities deal with safe harbor and data processing in the USA. The full text is available at http://www.corderycompliance…

One of the most frequent questions we have at the moment is from clients asking us when the new EU data protection laws will come in. Needless to say there is no definite answer. In May 2014 we looked at what the proposed new laws say and some of the history behind them. You can […]

On February 5, 2015, the President urged the Operative Council of Cybersecurity to review the legislation, “in order to find a balance between the respect of individual freedoms and preventing terrorism, cyber crime and combating corruption”. In a press released on January 21, 2015, “the sole authority of constitutional jurisdiction in Romania”, the Constitutional Court, “upheld the objection of […]

In a globalized world where our economy revolves around information and its proper use and implementation, in Mexico it became necessary to create a legal system to protect personal data/information by following the steps of countries like the US, Canada, Spain, which are distinguished by their legal structure in this area. Seeking to be a […]

Google have reached an agreement with a former Morgan Stanley banker who was a victim of one of the most extreme campaigns of trolling in recent memory. Daniel Hegglin was subjected to a vicious campaign of false abuse by an internet troll who had been directing abuse at the banker since 2011. Mr Hegglin had […]

Cybercrime and security is a topic that is rarely out of the news and new EU rules on cyber-security are making their way through the EU legislative pipeline. But what has the UK been doing about the fight against cybercrime, notably hacking? The term “hacking” is a colloquial one and doesn’t exist under UK legislation […]

The author discusses the worldwide access via search engines to online information and assesses the long-term effects of the Costeja case, C-131/12 and its “right to be forgotten”: “In the light of the above, the future EU regulation should consider the peculiar nature of search engines as data controllers. It should introduce an ad hoc legal provision, which […]

The recent decision of the European Court of Justice in Google Spain SL v Agencia Española de Protección de Datos is a good opportunity to compare the obligation of search engines with reference to the search results in Europe and United States. The ruling of May 13, 2014, holds that all European citizens have a […]