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Showing posts with label GDPR. Show all posts
Showing posts with label GDPR. Show all posts
Sunday, August 30, 2026

Belgian scholar publishes magisterial deep dive into comparative data privacy law across Atlantic

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Dr. Sylvia Lissens has published her remarkable dissertation in comparative law as a book, Personal Data Protection in the United States and...
Monday, October 13, 2025

Belgian scholar finds fault on both sides of Atlantic, charts midway course for U.S.-EU data privacy

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KU Leuven Profs. Jan Wouters ,  Evelyne Terryn , and  Peggy Valcke ;  Sylvia Lissens ; me; KU Leuven Prof. Marieke Wyckaert , dissertation c...
Thursday, February 1, 2024

Naming rape suspects may draw criminal charges for journalists under Northern Ireland privacy law

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Bernard Goldbach via Flickr CC BY 2.0 In Northern Ireland, it's a crime for a journalist to identify a rape suspect. The relevant provi...
Wednesday, May 17, 2023

Mass., EU courts wrestle with requisite harm in defamation, data protection cases

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The vexing problem of proof of damages in defamation and privacy has turned up recently in the Massachusetts Court of Appeals and the Court ...
Saturday, April 22, 2023

Lissens presents EU data protection, IoT research

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Sylvia Lissens, a Ph.D. student and teaching assistant at the KU Leuven Centre for Global Governance Studies in Belgium, presented part of h...
Wednesday, November 23, 2022

Anti-corruption law violates business-owner privacy, EU court holds with myopic appraisal of transparency

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A key European Union transparency law that allows watchdogs to trace corporate ownership to combat corruption has been struck down by the E...
Saturday, January 1, 2022

Code might inevitably regulate journalism in digital age

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The U.K. Information Commissioner's Office is working on a "journalism code of practice" to legislate against defamation and ...
Wednesday, October 27, 2021

In parting meditation on pub gossip, Czech judge peels onion on privacy limits, judicial transparency

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Does GDPR pertain to pub buzz?, AG Bobek asks. ( Skeptics in the Pub Oslo (2015) by Dizzi90 CC BY-SA 4.0 ) Earlier this month, Czech judge ...
Friday, June 4, 2021

First Amendment advocate counsels caution, but doesn't rebuff, American right to be forgotten

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Gene Policinski , Freedom Forum Senior Fellow for the First Amendment, published an op-ed last week for the "First Five" blog i...
Monday, February 8, 2021

UK court: Long arm of GDPR can't reach California*

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Image my composite of Atlantic Ocean by Tentotwo CC BY-SA 3.0 and "hand reach" from Pixabay by ArtsyBee , licensed *[UPDATE, ...
Monday, October 5, 2020

U.S. White Paper on 'Schrems II': Emperor still clothed

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A new U.S. white paper on data protection means favorably to supplement the record on U.S. surveillance practices that, in part, fueled the...
Friday, September 25, 2020

Boston Bar panel surveys landscape of privacy law, data protection policy, class action litigation

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Attorneys Melanie Conroy, Marjan Hajibandeh, and Matthew M.K. Stein We had great fun yesterday, as lawyer fun goes, talking about privacy la...