The Data Protection and Digital Information (No. 2) Bill (DPDIB) has been introduced to Parliament on the 8th of March 2023. It is not a complete revamp of the first Data Protection and Digital Information Bill, but this time the intention is firm. The Department of Science, Innovation and Technology (DSIT) is determined to have … Continue reading
Tag Archives: pseudonymisation
Anonymisation, pseudonymisation, WiFi tracking and the French: the JCDecaux case
The topic of ‘anonymisation’ has already been covered several times on the blog (see e.g. here, here, and here). We even have a new research paper (‘Anonymous Data v. Personal Data — A False Debate: An EU Perspective on Anonymization, Pseudonymization and Personal Data’) recently published in the Wisconsin International Law Journal on this issue … Continue reading
Data protection / General Data Protection Regulation / ICO / Personal data / pseudonymisation / Risk-based approach / sensitive data
ICO Requests Feedback on New Data Protection Profiling Provisions
If we stopped calling it ‘profiling’ and started calling it “creating composite, digital ‘mosaics’ by singling out, linking, and inferring personal attributes”, people might say “Well, it’s about time” The UK Information Commissioner’s Office (ICO) has published a discussion paper seeking feedback on profiling provisions under the EU’s General Data Protection Regulation (GDPR). The deadline … Continue reading
Access to data / anonymisation / Data protection / Data transfer / de-identification / General Data Protection Regulation / pseudonymisation / Risk-based approach
A call for a common techno-legal language to speak about anonymisation, pseudonymisation, de-identification… Could this be one of the biggest challenges brought about by the GDPR?
The General Data Protection Regulation (GDPR) will be applicable in less than two years and lawyers as well as others are trying to grapple with definitional issues. The graduated approach that would have meant alleviating the regime of certain categories of data such as pseudonymised data (e.g. by eliminating the need to comply with … Continue reading