NGOs (non-governmental organisations) have been doing a good job recently in trying to explain where things stand in the process of re-drafting [and maybe one day adopting] the General Data Protection Regulation (GDPR). You might remember that on 25 January 2012, the European Commission released a Proposed Revised Data Protection Legislative Framework, including the GDPR. … Continue reading
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Ofcom issues statement promoting the Internet of Things
A vision for the future: how exactly do you regulate a seamless network of ‘social machines’? Ofcom recently published a statement on promoting UK investment and innovation in the Internet of Things (IoT) – commonly described as the online interconnection of multiple machine-to-machine (M2M) applications. The statement follows on from Ofcom’s public call for inputs … Continue reading
Usurpation of identity à la française: the first application of Article 226-4-1 of the French Penal Code
The French LOPSSI 2 Act of 2011 [LOPSSI stands for Loi d’Orientation et de Programmation pour la Performance de la Sécurité Intérieure] introduced into the French Penal Code a new Article 226-4-1 to criminalise the “act of usurping the identity of an individual or the act of using one piece or several pieces of data … Continue reading
Retaining IP addresses for network security purposes… What does data protection law have to say?
It has already been announced by a few German-speaking commentators (here and here) that the Court of Justice of the European Union (CJEU) has been asked two very interesting questions by the German Federal Court of Justice (BGH) in its decision of 28 October 2014 [as mentioned in German here]: Whether dynamic IP addresses are … Continue reading
The First Tier Tribunal (Information Rights) refuses to disclose the names of 4 police officers involved in a ‘car selling-scam’… and a few considerations about the right to be forgotten
Some of the most vocal criticisms of the right to be forgotten as interpreted by the Court of Justice of the European Union in its famous case decided on 13 May 2014 come from Internet giants. The Wikimedia foundation and the Wikipedia founder himself are no exception. “This right to be forgotten is the idea … Continue reading
What the hell are these metadata? ….Are communications data, traffic data and metadata all the same thing?
And here is the first Peep Beep! post: The Snowden revelations have transformed the word “metadata” into a buzzword. The question that many are asking these days is who can collect and retain metadata. Can law enforcement agencies and intelligence services collect and retain metadata at their will? Can Internet access providers do what they … Continue reading