Wednesday, 15 November 2023

Thank you and farewell

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After a period of silence it's now time to close this blog.  I've lost the motivation I once had to put my head above the data prote...
Friday, 22 July 2022

Personal Data Breach Notification – it's time to scrap the unfair rules that have been imposed on Communication Service providers

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  In  August 2013 the European Commission introduced new rules to require Communication Service Providers to report all personal data breac...
Sunday, 21 March 2021

My Top Tips for the UK’s Next Information Commissioner

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  The UK’s data protection community isn't easy to please. Privacy is big business these days, and many of its opinion formers take to s...
Monday, 9 November 2020

The EU’s draft Data Governance Act: an own goal?

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The EU’s draft Data Governance Act is designed to facilitate the greater sharing of non-Personal data within the EU. Such big data ought to ...
Friday, 16 October 2020

Is it still necessary for data protection laws to have particular processing rules for specific types pf personal data?

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I think not.   1.      European laws have special rules for the processing of “sensitive data” or “special category data” regardless of the ...
Tuesday, 13 October 2020

Why have I joined the LinkedIn Data Protection Reform Group?

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1.      There is an ongoing debate on the rights that data controllers should have, compared with the rights that private individuals should...
Sunday, 4 October 2020

Revise the GDPR

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We are what we are We don't want praise, we don't want pity We bang our own drum Some think it's noise, we think it's pretty...