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 ...
On September 4 2025, the Court of Justice of the EU (CJEU) delivered its judgment in the case C-413/23 P, EDPS v SRB. The CJEU clarified the scope of the concept of personal data in the context of a ...
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 ...
Section 251 is an infamous clause in the Health and Social Care Act 2001, which was re-enacted in the NHS Act of 2006. In summary, section 251 allows the secretary of state for health to make ...
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 ...
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 ...
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 ...
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