The German regulatory practice has been to treat bitcoin as a unit of account and thus a financial instrument.

In order for countries to opt in to the system, their legal systems and privacy protection must meet APEC's standards.

The Spanish data protection authority, Agencia Española de Protección de Datos, has issued three new guidance documents.

In a step toward its accession to the EU, Turkey has enacted its first comprehensive Data Protection Law.

The Supreme Court has today found in favour of the trade union UNISON in its judicial review of the UK Employment Tribunal fees regime, unanimously holding that the legislation implementing the current regime is unlawful both under domestic and EU law.

On 4 September 2013, the European Commission published a draft regulation on the regulation of European money market funds.

The previous Gafta Arbitration Rules were effective for contracts dated from 1 June 2014.

The internet was set alight last week with witty remarks from Jonathan Perelman, vice president of BuzzFeed, at this year’s Abu Dhabi Media Summit as he proclaimed users are, "more likely to summit Mount Everest than click on a banner ad".

On 14 September 2017, the Government published the long-awaited draft of the Data Protection Bill.

At the latest meeting in Brussels, Justice ministers agreed on a partial general approach.

A judgement of the Upper Tribunal of the UK Information Rights Tribunal (the Tribunal), in the case of Central London Community Healthcare Trust v Information Commissioner [2013] UKUT 0551 (AAC), has ruled that organisations which voluntarily report incidents of data security breaches to the ICO do not gain automatic immunity from penalty fines in relation to that breach.

New EU rules on personal data breach notification for telecoms and ISPs came into force recently.

The Payment Card Industry Security Standards Council has had a busy year thus far updating both its Card Production Security Requirements and its Data Security Standards.

The Outer House of the Scottish Court of Session held that non compliance with data protection laws amounted to a material breach of contract.

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In a written statement to Parliament, Baroness Neville-Rolfe confirmed the UK Government's view that the Treaty on the Functioning of the European Union means that Article 48 of the GDPR does not apply to the UK.

6 October 2015 is the end of the transition period under the 2015 CDM Regulations. See our previous post for more information about the changes.

The Tribunal concluded that the wording was, as in The Strathnewton, sufficient to incorporate the ICA in its entirety.

The EU Council of Ministers has announced that it has reached consensus on the draft Data Protection Regulation.

For the first time, the UK has proposed a specific and detailed sentencing regime for corporations involved in bribery, fraud and other economic crimes.