Police access to personal data retained by ISPs is a matter of proportionality
On October 2nd 2018, the Court of Justice of European Union (CJEU) held a decision confirming the conditions of access […]
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Facebook Supreme Court appeal to be heard in December
Facebook has got a provisional date of December 19th for its unprecedented Supreme Court appeal aimed at halting a referral […]
EU Court Endorses Minor Privacy Intrusion for Petty Crime
On Tuesday, the Grand Chamber of the European Court of Justice concluded that invasions of privacy are justified not just […]
Google fights against global ‘right to be forgotten’ in search
Lawyers for Google faced Europe’s top judges on Tuesday to argue against upholding the rights of European citizens to have […]
‘Right to be forgotten’ could threaten global free speech
The “right to be forgotten” online is in danger of being transformed into a tool of global censorship through a […]
German government pushing courts to submit data retention cases to CJEU
The German government is urging judges at the German Constitutional Court to submit a series of constitutional complaints filed against […]
GDPR court decisions still only a trickle: there might be a deluge yet
Court decisions relating to privacy since GDPR came into force have not exactly been pouring out. But some key decisions […]
EU court rules religious communities are data controllers
Court of Justice of European Union (CJEU) ruled, on July 10, that religious community, such as the Jehovah’s Witnesses, is […]
Lack of access to personal data does not unmake a joint controller
The Court of Justice of the EU decided in Case C-210/16 Wirtschaftsakademie that Facebook and the administrator of a fan […]
Top EU Court Embraces Anonymity for Litigants
Starting with July 1 the European Court of Justice (CJEU) no longer plans to identify people who are the subject […]
UK urged to accept CJEU jurisdiction on data protection
The UK government should accept the jurisdiction of the EU’s highest court to rule on matters of data protection post-Brexit, […]
EU Nations ‘Still Breaking The Law On Mass Surveillance’
Campaign groups, NGOs and academics have teamed up to file a series of complaints with the EU over bulk surveillance […]