“Shell personal data” such as surnames, forenames, and addresses can be accessed by national authorities in the course of a criminal investigation “when the interference that such access entails is not serious, that access is capable of being justified by the objective of preventing, investigating, detecting and prosecuting ‘criminal offences’ generally.”
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Yesterday, Facebook reported that it was a victim of an attack on its computer infrastructure which had exposed the personal information of about 50 million users. This breach was the largest in Facebook’s history.
Under the European Union (Withdrawal) Act 2018, EU-derived law such as the General Data Protection Regulation 2016/679 (“GDPR”), will become part of the domestic law when the UK leaves the EU on the 29th March 2019.
ICO latest newsletter states “(…) people have woken up to the importance of personal data and how it’s used. Personal data has become the currency by which society does business, but advances in technology should not mean organisations racing ahead of people’s rights – individuals should be the ones in control.”
In June, The Privacy Advisor asked global data protection authorities to reveal how many GDPR complaints had been filed thus far. The numbers they provided varied widely, from 756 in Poland and 1,124 in the U.K., to just two in Sweden, and only three in Belgium.
Recommended read – An article by Jonathan Andrews, Cities Today: “How the EU’s new data laws will affect Smart City development”. Click the external link: