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The Swedish Data Protection Authority recently launched an investigation into Umeå University’s handling of sensitive personal data, specifically data obtained from the Danish Police Authority for research purposes.
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I think that today is a good day to ask the future Members of the European Parliament and American Presidential Candidates to think about a global dimension of data protection and to commit themselves to develop international legislative instruments that have the power to truly enable world-wide...
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Unlike other sectors, improvements in Genetic technology raise issues of morality. The new human gene editing technology CRISPR/CAS9 has raised many such concerns. Can the current patent system deal with these concerns or should morality be dealt with by the inventors themselves?
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The need to guarantee the free flow of information in a Big Data economy forces us to re-think Intellectual Property Rights and find an appropriate balance between competition, innovation, privacy and incentives.
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On 6 November 2018 the ICO published it’s report to Parliament (Investigation into the use of data analytics in political campaigns A report to Parliament 6 November 2018).
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Legal compliance = primary enabler of Smart Data and Data protection by design and by default. We return to the vitality of compliance with data protection principles, the ultimate objective which can be successfully achieved through the correct application of the data protection by design approach...
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“The oil of the 21st century”, “the fuel of the digital economy”, the “data gold rush”. There’s no doubt that data is playing an ever-more important role in both the global society and the economy.
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With or without the UK, the EU will try to find a way to implement the UPC as it has invested considerable time and efforts knowing the benefits it will bring; however, the fate of the Agreement could be decided on judicial grounds instead of political ones.
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‘Technology and Innovation: Challenges for Traditional Legal Boundaries’ Workshop
The 20th Congress of the International Academy of Comparative Law (IACL) took place this year in Fukuoka, Japan, between 22-28 July. Apart from bringing together established comparative law scholars from different... -
How would a world look like in which judicial decisions would not be taken by judges, but by intelligent machines? Or where, at least, those machines would serve as a crucial decision support for judges – or perhaps even simply law clerks – to take judicial decision?