Although its main concern is the more general application of consent to data processing a new Opinion from the Article 29 Working Party also provides the first positive hint I’ve seen from regulators on what they think an acceptable cookie interface might look like. Although this is a helpful development – statements from other regulators [...]
Although consent is a key concept in Data Protection, discussions of it often seem confused and legal interpretations inconsistent. For example the European Commission has in the past called both for a crackdown on the over-use of consent and for all processing of personal data to be based on consent! A new Opinion on the [...]
That seems to be the rather depressing message from the European Court of Justice to websites that allow third parties to post content (e.g. the comments on this blog). Article 14 of the European eCommerce Directive says that those hosts are protected from liability for the content until they are aware of specific infringements of [...]
On a privacy course I teach for system and network managers I suggest a scale of “privacy riskiness”, the idea there being that if you can achieve an objective using information from lower down the scale then you run less risk of upsetting your users and/or being challenged under privacy law. That scale is very [...]