So here’s the question: you’re an individual who wants to have certain links containing information about you deindexed by Google; Google has refused to accede to your request and, upon complaint to the ICO, the Commissioner has decided that your complaint is unfounded and so he refuses to take enforcement action against Google under s. 40 DPA […]
The principle disadvantage, to the data protection lawyer, of the failure of Esperanto is that every now and then the CJEU hands down a judgment which is only available in French, and even Panopticon cannot blog every entry in Franglais. Such is the problem raised by the Opinion of the Advocate General (Cruz Villalon) in Case […]
As illustrated by Anya Proops’ recent post on a Hungarian case currently before the CJEU, the territorial jurisdiction of European data protection law can raise difficult questions. Such questions have bitten hard in the Europe vs Facebook litigation. Max Schrems, an Austrian law graduate, is spearheading a massive class action in which some 25,000 Facebook […]
Since the CJEU’s controversial decision in Google Spain,the debates have raged about how the so-called right to be forgotten should cash out in the online world. Particular concerns have been expressed by the media that the judgment rides rough shod over Article 10 rights, including not least the Article 10 rights of the website authors whose […]
The transnational nature of many modern commercial enterprises can create significant difficulties when it comes to the application of domestic data protection legislation within the EU. Questions can often arise as to whether the enterprise has the necessary territorial presence in order to enable the domestic legislation to apply. These questions can be particularly difficult […]
Last month I posted about the settlement of the Max Mosley litigation against Google (see my post here). Had that case been fought to its conclusion, we would at the very least have had the pleasure of gaining greater insight into the weird and wonderful world of the E-commerce legislation. However, sadly that was not […]
