A New Dawn -The draft General Data Protection Regulation takes a step closer...
The draft of the General Data Protection Regulation (GDPR) took a significant step towards finally becoming European-wide law last week. The European Parliament’s Civil Liberties, Justice & Home...
View ArticleData Protection Day – National Data Protection Conference
Europe is today celebrating Data Protection Day, with this year’s celebrations coinciding with the recent political agreement for the finalised text of the new General Data Protection Regulation...
View ArticleBig Mac stronger than Supermac’s
The Office for Harmonization in the Internal Market (OHIM) last week published its decision in relation to the application of the well-known fast-food outlet Supermac’s for a Community Trade Mark...
View ArticleModernising Copyright – ICEL/TCD Conference
The conference on Modernising Copyright, jointly organised by the Irish Centre for European Law and the School of Law, Trinity College Dublin, brought together a number of interesting academics,...
View ArticleNo Frontiers! – EU Consumers to enjoy cross-border access to online content...
EU consumers of online content services such as Netflix, Spotify or Sky Sports will soon be able to access their subscriptions while on holiday in or when otherwise visiting another Member State, due...
View ArticleDigital Safety Commissioner to be appointed in 2018
The Minister for Communications, Denis Naughten, has confirmed that plans to appoint a Digital Safety Commissioner for Ireland (DSC) will go ahead in 2018. The DSC will act as an ‘Internet regulator’,...
View ArticleOver-Reporting Data Breaches to Data Protection Commission may result in...
Speaking at A&L Goodbody’s breakfast seminar, ‘GDPR – The Last Lap‘, Anna Morgan, Deputy Data Protection Commissioner, has warned that companies who ‘over-report’ and adopt an overly conservative...
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