There are three concepts in EU data privacy law that are quite often conflated and misunderstood. These are: i) the right to erasure, ii) the right to be delisted and iii) the right to be forgotten. The aim of this article would be to establish conceptual clarity about these three notions and to further elucidate…Continue reading

One of the key tenets in European data privacy law is the general principle of fair and lawful processing. The principle was initially established in Article 6 a) of the Data Protection Directive of 1995 – “Member States shall provide that personal data must be processed fairly and lawfully”. It was retained and further expanded…Continue reading

In our current digital economy consumers are increasingly more often required to disclose their personal data in order to obtain access to services. It seems that personal data is the fuel of this new economy as big data centers are slowly becoming almost as valuable as oil refineries. One of the reasons for this paradigm…Continue reading

As the Data Protection Directive (DPD) is gradually closing on its last year of legal existence, the key provisions of the new General Data Protection Regulation (GDPR) are ever more likely to continuously appear in the spotlight of legal analysis here at the Cybergarden. One of the key aims of the GDPR is to truly…Continue reading