Tech and Data lawyer. Senior Advisor at Bird & Bird. Previously Manager at KPMG (UK). Writing about law, internet, strategy and innovation.
UPDATE June 2021: The EU Commission has published new sets of Standard Contractual Clauses for international data transfers. Please note that the article below refers to the old ones and therefore is not relevant anymore. You can learn more on the...
Recital 39 of the General Data Protection Regulation (GDPR) states that any processing of personal data should be lawful and fair. Also, Recital 40 states that for processing to be lawful, personal data must be processed by the consent of the data...
Ten years ago, most law firms did not use social media and, if we go back a little further, most did not have even a website, while in other sectors the use of these platforms was not optional at the time. However, there has been a change recently...
While the success and growth of virtual reality has been evident in recent years, augmented reality did not suffer the same fate. Although it was always included in the group of new technological trends that promised great things, few cases have...
Article 6 of the General Data Protection Regulation (GDPR) includes the “legitimate interests” of the data controller or a third party as one legal basis for processing personal data. This Article 6.1.f is in certain way complex, as there are very...