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6 Aug 2014

Data & It Law Week, vol. 32: legal startups funding, a trial of legal tech company and data breaches

A decrease in legal startups funding The article at TechCrunch analysed the development of legal startups and their performance. The author shows that the investments in law-related start-ups had sharply declined. “The sales cycle for the legal
30 Jul 2014

Data & It Law Week, vol. 31: secondary use of data, data sharing and cookies

Using data for secondary purposes (customer devices data) Technology law specialist Luke Scanlon had argued in favor of demanding more explicit reasons of data collectors to access data stored on customers’ devices. “The disclosure of additional purposes
23 Jul 2014

Data & It Law Week, vol. 30: personal data & their value, data protection for small businesses

The article gives an overview of the most interesting articles in the area of data & it law.   ECJ: Personal data & the definition of the word The European Court of Justice had analyzed the meaning
16 Jul 2014

Data & It Law Week, vol. 29: transfer of data, exemptions & data breaches

The article gives an overview of the most interesting articles in the area of data & it law.   Transfer of personal data to third countries by EU institutions In its position paper, European Data Protection Supervisor
9 Jul 2014

Data & It Law Week, vol. 28: data protection in Singapore, Facebook experiment and data protection officer duties

The article gives an overview of the most interesting articles in the area of data & it law.   New Data Protection Act in Singapore On July 2, new Personal Data Protection went into effect in Singapore.
2 Jul 2014

Data & It Law Week, vol. 27: data breaches, EU citizens rights in US & personal data markets

The article gives an overview of the most interesting articles in the area of data & it law.   Top 6 causes of data breaches Recent research by Forrester had shown that there are several most common
25 Jun 2014

Data & It Law Week, vol. 26: transfer of data, sale of business & Google Case

The article gives an overview of the most interesting articles in last 7 days.   Transfer of data and EU data protection policy In his comment on the new development within EU, creating a “super-power” for data