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#dataprivacy2017

Data Privacy Day 28th January 2017 is also the start of the Chinese New Year – the Fire Rooster Year, an auspicious start for 2017 and #dataprivacy. No #dataprivacy2017 presentation at City, University of London this year. Looks like last year was the last one, unless another student continues with the yearly event that was [...]

Brexit – inconvenient truth of globalisation?

Since the momentous announcement of the outcome of the Brexit-In-Remain-EU Referendum event on Friday 24th June 2016, there’re now countless Brexit related media news/reports and social media rants. Friday 24th June 2016 will go down as ‘Black Friday’, not only in UK but across the globe. Can UK (or even any EU states) avoid or [...]

final adoption of the new EU rules for personal data protection

A new era in data protection and privacy in the EU with the announcement that the EU General Data Protection Regulation that was first drafted in January 2012 will be implemented in 2018. The link to the EU press release

The blog on the #DataPrivacyDay 2016 event at City University

Here’s the link to the blog on #citylis news; DataPrivacyDay 2016 Many thanks to Dr David Haynes and Dr Lyn Robinson for posting the blog.

back posting an important December 2015 news on the EU GDPR

The ‘Agreement on Commission’s EU data protection reform’ news that was released on 15 December 2015. The full news at the European Commission – Press release on the EU data protection reform

Data Privacy Day 2016

Data Privacy Day event at City! Together with a City colleague, Dr David Haynes, we got our planned event into the City news page; http://www.city.ac.uk/news/2016/jan/data-privacy-day-discussion Headlines and content extracted and posted here; City experts to discuss data privacy The European Union (EU) General Data Protection Regulation (GDPR) and the recent European Court of Human Rights [...]

EU Data Protection files

The DIRECTIVE 95/46/EC OF THE EUROPEAN PARLIAMENT AND OF THE COUNCIL of 24 October 1995 – adopted in the UK and generally referred to as The DPA The Proposal for a regulation of the European Parliament and of the Council on the protection of individuals with regard to the processing of personal data and on [...]

EU Commission Data Protection news and homepage

Come October 2015 it will be over three years since the EU Commissioner’s announcement on the reform of the EU’s 1995 data protection rules. Further related EU Data Protection news and resources at the EU Commission homepage

EU DP Regulation – news from Luxembourg, 15 June 2015

The EU Commission’s Data Protection Regulation proposal specified back in 2012 has been approved. Negotiations between the Council, the European Parliament and the EU Commission will start on 24 June 2015. The EU Commission – Fact Sheet is available under news – Stronger data protection rules for Europe For my own record, the full text [...]

In Google Scholar and Books

Besides Google Scholar, my (only) article ‘Electronic Discovery/Disclosure: From Litigation to International Commercial Arbitration’ has now been cited/referenced in the following books; ICDR Awards and Commentaries, Volume 1 edited by Grant Hanessian Link provided by Google search Arbitration Advocacy in Changing Times edited by A. J. van den Berg Link provided by Google search AAA [...]