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Advocate General, Henrik Saugmandsgaard Øe of the Court of Justice of the European Union (CJEU) has just handed down his opinion in response to a referral by the High Court of Ireland for preliminary rulings of law. The High Court case in question related to complaints made by Max Schrems against Facebook Ireland and Facebook Inc concerning the transfer of Mr Schrems' personal data to the United States (U.S).

The Information Commissioner’s Office (ICO) has launched a consultation to invite views from the public on its new guidance for subject access requests.

The GDPR increased the fines available to EU supervisory authorities for breaches of data protection requirements.

There are some types of special category data under the GDPR that attract a higher level of protection given their sensitive nature.

We are almost 18 months on from the implementation of the GDPR on 25 May 2018 and there have been a wealth of surveys reflecting on how well (or not) organisations have done in meeting the new requirements.

The ICO has updated its guidance on the timeframe for compliance with subject access requests.

It is almost a year since one of the largest scale reforms of data protection law has taken place. In the run up to May 2018 employers across the country were frantically preparing vast amounts of new documents in light of the impending implementation of the General Data Protection Regulations (GDPR).

Google LLC has been fined 50 million euros by CNIL (the French data protection regulator and ‘lead authority’ in this matter) for breaches of GDPR.

The EU’s Data Protection pride and joy, GDPR, came in a little over seven months ago. Despite this, many workers are still not compliant and, worse still, are unaware that they are doing anything wrong.

In the recent case of WM Morrison Supermarkets plc v Various Claimants, Morrisons faced claims from its employees who had been the subject of a data breach. Morrisons employed a senior IT auditor who was tasked with sending data on approximately 100,000 employees to an external auditing company.