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The CJEU invalidates the EU-US “privacy shield”

Ainara Bordes

 / 16 July 2020 / News

The Court of Justice invalidates Decision 2016/1250 on the adequacy of the protection provided by the EU-US Data Protection Shield. Nevertheless, the Court considers that Commission Decision on standard contractual clauses (SCCs) for the transfer of personal data to processors established in third countries is valid. See CJEU’s press release  https://curia.europa.eu/jcms/upload/docs/application/pdf/2020-07/cp200091en.pdf For the Judgement http://curia.europa.eu/juris/document/document.jsf?text=&docid=228677&pageIndex=0&doclang=en&mode=lst&dir=&occ=first&part=1&cid=9712167

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NEW PUBLICATION: The Ecosystem Concept: A Holistic Approach to Privacy Protection

Lauren Elrick

 / 25 June 2020 / News

Lauren Elrick (ESR No.1) has recently published an article in the International Review of Law, Computers and Technology, Special Issue: The Future of Legal Regulation: The Intersection of Creativity, Technology and Biology.    Please see below for full details.   Article Title: The Ecosystem Concept: A Holistic Approach to Privacy Protection   Article Abstract: Proportionality remains a

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The problems with Ethiopia’s proposed hate speech and misinformation law

The problems with Ethiopia’s proposed hate speech and misinformation law

Halefom Abraha

 / 5 June 2019 / Blog Post

Regulating problematic online content has become a pressing issue around the world. The ease and speed with which harmful and dangerous content is disseminated and accessed via social media particularly reinforces this challenge. Many countries have or are considering some form of legislation to regulate problematic online content, be it hate speech, fake news, or extremist

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No, Not Every Technology That Uses Your Face Is Facial Recognition. It’s Time We Started To Get Precise

No, Not Every Technology That Uses Your Face Is Facial Recognition. It’s Time We Started To Get Precise

Agnes Venema

 / 9 May 2019 / Blog Post

Key Words: Facial Recognition, National Security, Policing, Privacy, Technology   Last month, US airline JetBlue came under scrutiny for the facial recognition technology they have deployed for check-in purposes since November of last year, after a passenger started asking questions on social media about the program. JetBlue responded that this particular program is rolled out

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How Privacy-Protective is Facebook’s new ‘Privacy-Focused Vision’?

Halefom Abraha

 / 13 March 2019 / Blog Post

Keywords: Privacy, surveillance capitalism, Facebook, social networks, encrypted services   On the 6th of March 2019, Mark Zuckerberg announced a brand new vision for his company and highlighted his position on the future of the internet. Suggesting a major change to his long-held philosophy of “making the world more open and connected,” Zuckerberg predicts that

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