Data Protection in UK Law
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DATA PROTECTION: THE FIRST DECADE
This paper considers the effectiveness of the Data Protection Act since its launch in 1984. The National Audit Office prepared a report in 1993, which was critical of the Data Protection Registrar,...
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Data Protection and the EPPO
The European Public Prosecutor’s Office (the ‘EPPO’) necessarily processes personal data in order to fulfil its mission; As such, it falls squarely within the European Union (EU) data protection re...
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Data protection warning.
...Data protection is causing concern to UK members, according to CIMA's Technical Advisory Service (TAS). One member received a letter telling him that he had to register if he was holding personal information about clients on his personal computer. On......
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Effective Redress of Grievance in Data Protection: An Illusion?
This article questions whether the current data protection legislative framework in the EU to provide effective redress of grievance for those who are affected by a breach of data protection law. I...
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Private Law Solutions in European Data Protection: Relationship to Privacy, and Waiver of Data Protection Rights
In this article a possibility of a private law approach to data protection is considered. The main thesis of the contribution is that the European legal order allows only a limited scope of contrac...
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Externalizing Europe: the global effects of European data protection
Purpose: This paper aims to explain how the EU projects its own data protection regime to third states and the US in particular. Digital services have become a central element in the transatlantic ...
- Offences Involving Data Protection
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DATA PROTECTION AND THE USE OF PERSONAL DATA BY FINANCIAL INSTITUTIONS
In the light of the First Principle contained within the 1984 Data Protection Act, the Data Protection Registrar is concerned about some of the current practices being carried out within the financ...
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Cooperation between Financial Intelligence Units in the European Union: Stuck in the middle between the General Data Protection Regulation and the Police Data Protection Directive
Financial Intelligence Units (FIUs) hold a central position in the chain of actors responsible for the monitoring of money movements in the European Union. In support of their role, which is to rec...
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At the Junction of Consumer Protection: Dual Role of Data Protection in EU Law
Consumer data extraction in the digital economy raises competition concerns for its potential detriments on consumer welfare. However, competition law seems to lack the normative mechanism to analy...
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