On 4 September 2025, the Court of Justice of the European Union (CJEU) delivered a ruling in EDPS v. SRB (Case C-413/23 P) that clarified how the EU General Data Protection Regulation (GDPR) applies ...
Steve Millward is the General Manager – Product, Sales and Marketing at smrtr. In this piece, he explains the difference between anonymised and pseudonymised data and explains how businesses can ...
The Court of Justice of the European Union (ECJ) has issued a landmark decision in European Data Protection Supervisor v Single Resolution Board (C-413/23 P), 1 narrowing the circumstances in which ...
The thorny issue of tracking of location data without risking individual privacy is very neatly illustrated via a Freedom of Information (FOI) request asking London’s transport regulator to release ...
The Information Commissioner's Office (ICO) has claimed that anonymous data is not covered under the Data Protection Act, meaning that if anonymised patient record data were to be leaked or mis-used ...
The debate about uploading nearly all data from UK medical practices to a national database continues to cause concern. Responding to fears that the information held in the care.data database will put ...
A claim by the Department of Health that patient data shared with private firms for medical research would be anonymised has been challenged by privacy campaigners. The prime minister said last week ...
There was a sense of inevitability to the Data Protection Bill announced by the UK government this month. What especially caught my eye was the new criminal offence: “of intentionally or recklessly re ...