The announcement comes as the police have won an appeal against an information tribunal ruling that data on old, minor convictions must be deleted from police computers.
Julia Powles will be in discussion with the defendant in the ECJ ruling, Irish data protection commissioner Helen Dixon, on 3 November, 11am, at Web Summit, Dublin.
Health regulator Monitor put the hospital in special measures after ruling that data "inaccuracies" meant the hospital had breached its licence to provide health services.
However section 102 of the IPT ruling suggests data will not be deleted by default, but rather that any deletion will depend on individuals making a complaint — and having a specific case for why their data should be deleted.
However section 102 of the IPT ruling suggests data will not be deleted by default, but rather that any deletion will depend on individuals making a complaint — and having a specific case for why their data should be deleted.
The ruling renders data transfers relying solely on Safe Harbor self-certification illegal, upending the status quo at the more than 5,000 companies that have self-certified under the agreement.
Speculating on possible outcomes of the AG opinion, EvF says it could range from narrowing the interpretation of Safe Harbor, invalidating the Safe Harbor decision or "an even broader ruling on international data transfers taking into consideration the European Union's fundamental right to data protection in Article 8 of the Charter of Fundamental Rights of the European Union".
The European Court of Justice has issued a preliminary ruling on a data retention case brought by UK MPs and privacy rights groups seeking to challenge the government's data retention regime under DRIPA.
The European Court of Justice has issued a preliminary ruling on a data retention case brought by UK MPs and privacy rights groups seeking to challenge the government's data retention regime under DRIPA.
This culminated in a ruling by the data protection watchdog that Defra must publish all the findings.
The pilot stage of the s-Travel initiative, an EC-funded biometric project designed to secure passenger travel, has ground to a halt in Greece following a ruling by local data protection officials that the scheme is illegal.
