The General Data Protection Regulation (2016/679) (“EU GDPR”) allows individuals to seek compensation for “non-material” damages, such as distress or anxiety, where this results from an infringement ...

In Common Services Agency v Scottish Information Commissioner, the House of Lords has ruled on the extent to which anonymised information about individuals constitutes "personal data" for the purposes ...

It has been announced by the government that a Data Protection Commissioner is to be appointed under the Data Protection Act. This comes roughly 30 months after the passage of what was to be a ...

The story so far: The petitions challenging the amendment to the Right to Information (RTI) Act that provides blanket exemption for personal information, through a section in the Digital Personal Data ...