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 ...

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 ...

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 ...