Matron

If you can't say anything nice, kvetch about it. Miscellaneous rants, shames and (very rarely) praises of developments in the area of privacy, data protection and cyberlaw.

Monday, 23 July 2018

A fool and their data are easily parted: Is "data portability" really all it's cracked up to be?

Last week, Microsoft, Facebook, Google and Twitter announced plans to introduce a new open source initiative for consumer data portability,...

Wednesday, 21 December 2016

Squaring the data protection circle just got harder for the UK

So, the CJEU decision in the Joined cases of Tele2 Sverige AB and Tom Watson et al. (Cases C ‑ 203/15 and C ‑ 698/15) came out today an...

Saturday, 11 July 2015

Caspar

I admired Caspar Bowden’s mind before I met him in person. That may have been a good thing because - as others have alrea...

Tuesday, 16 December 2014

The “Born This Way Fallacy” or Why we shouldn’t feel the need to resort to biological determinism to invoke our human rights

It’s December, it’s been grey outside for weeks and Matron has far too much work to do. What better time to procrastinate on somethi...

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