Had current data protection laws been in force 15 years ago, they might have prevented thousands of willing Hertfordshire people from taking part in medical research-and the fetal origins hypothesis would not exist [ 32].
The new rules will replace the EU's current data protection laws which date from 1995, when the internet was still in its infancy, and give citizens more control over their own private information in a digitised world of smart phones, social media, internet banking and global transfers.
Most experts agree that current European data protection law is outdated.
Current UK data protection law requires that for the use of personal data by an organisation to be lawful that it meets at least one of a number of criteria (legitimising conditions).
Facebook is not even complying with the spirit of current EU data protection law on data downloads.
Written during the process of the fundamental revision of the current EU data protection law by the Data Protection Package proposed by the European Commission, this interdisciplinary book presents both daring and prospective approaches.
This interdisciplinary book was written during what may turn out to be the final stages of the process of the fundamental revision of the current EU data protection law by the Data Protection Package proposed by the European Commission.
The usage of the term 'personal data' here runs somewhat counter to current European data protection law under the 1995 Data Protection Directive (95/46/EC), according to which personal data must be linked to an identified individual.
It was spring 2011, and he had just shot a bolt of electricity through a dusty seminar on online privacy with a passionate invective on sham anonymization of datasets that went into idiocy-explainer levels of detail about how current U.K. data protection law was being a complete ass.
An investigation by the Guardian and the Danish Broadcasting Corporation has found that Facebook's platform allows advertisers to target users based on interests related to political beliefs, sexuality and religion — all categories that are marked out as sensitive information under current European data protection law.
