Blog

DCU Law and Tech regularly publishes blog posts discussing the topics Law and Technology written by a variety of authors.

June 1, 2022

Making sense of privacy notices: lessons from financial services for an ‘assisted’ consent

Andrés Chomczyk Penedo

Vrije Universiteit Brussel (Belgium)

1. Deciding about data in a complex reality A privacy notice can be a dense document and its average length has…

April 13, 2022

Towards a Transatlantic Data Privacy Framework

Edoardo Celeste

DCU

The EU-US data transfer saga continues. Despite two historical decisions of the Court of Justice of the EU (CJEU) invalidating the…

March 30, 2022

Sri Lanka Enacts Its Data Protection Regime

Ashit Srivastava & Siddarth Chaturvedi

Dharmashastra National Law University, Jabalpur

On 10th March 2022, Sri Lanka’s Parliament passed the Personal Data Protection Act. With this, Sri Lanka also became the first…

March 10, 2022

Is Ireland Restricting Healthcare Research?

Idoia Landa Reza

Universidad del País Vasco

This post exposes how Ireland has regulated the field of health research, and if the Irish model has leaned towards the…

January 31, 2022

The Evolution of UK Data Protection Law: Geo-Political Context and the Future of Adequacy

Jared Browne

Head of Data Privacy, Fexco Group

The UK left the European Union (EU) in January 2021. Of the many strands left unresolved, the future position of data-sharing…

January 30, 2022

UK Data Protection Law: A New Direction?

Divyam Wadhwa

Student of MDPP, DCU

On 31 December 2020, the United Kingdom (UK) formally departed from the European Union (EU). Following that, on 1 January 2021,…

November 9, 2021

Data Localisation in South-Asia

Ashit Srivastava