On November 15, 2013, the Supreme Court held Alberta’s Personal Information Protection Act (“PIPA”) to be unconstitutional, holding that an individual’s right to freedom of expression in the labor strike context outweighs the individual’s right to control his or her information in public. The ruling is suspended for 12 months to give Alberta’s legislature time
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From World Cup Winners to Adequate Level of Data Protection – Uruguay Set to Join Another Exclusive Club!
By Cynthia O’Donoghue on
This post was also written by Nick Tyler.
Having hosted and won the very first ‘soccer’ World Cup in 1930, and then having won it again twenty years later, Uruguay belongs to a very exclusive band of multiple-World Cup winning countries. Having reached the semi-finals of this year’s tournament (for the fifth time in…
The UK Regulator’s ‘Wish List’ for a New EU Data Protection Directive Highlights the Challenges Ahead
By Cynthia O’Donoghue on
This post was also written by Nick Tyler.
The Information Commissioner’s Office (ICO), the UK data protection regulator, has recently responded to the UK Government’s Call for Evidence on the current data protection legislative framework. The Ministry of Justice sought evidence about how the European Data Protection Directive 95/46/EC and the Data Protection Act…