The law firm Field Fisher Waterhouse has been in the news recently in connection with the unprecedented level of lobbying activity directed against the new Data Protection Regulation, currently being debated in the European Parliament. For example see Data Protection: All You Need to Know about the EU Privacy Debate ...

European Data Protection Day Monday, Jan 28th, 2013. The number of web requests to European websites from browsers with Do Not Track set is now over 7% of the total, and rising. Take a look at our dynamic Do Not Track chart below. It is based on aggregated data collected ...

Comment to GDS blog post "It’s not about cookies, it’s about privacy" Mike O'Neill (@incloud) — 20/03/2012 It should be about respecting citizen’s privacy, not implementation convenience. The law requires web publishers not place any information that could identify a visitor on their browser unless they have been given informed ...

Our comment to Gov.UK blog post "Cookies on the Beta" The Google Analytics (__utma) cookie is no more or less “intrusive” than any other piece of inert data. It is simply a number that is unique to a visitor’s browser. The reason this is a data protection issue is that ...

Online privacy and the ePrivacy directive Website publishers should not be told to “go ahead” if they want to use cookies. The law in most European jurisdictions require that consent is obtained prior to cookie placement, and regulators across Europe are capable of enforcing it. In addition telling them that ...

Updating our original guest post for TechCrunch "Navigating cookie privacy is getting legislators lost" The Internet, driven by technological innovation and the free market, has brought huge benefits. But freedom without responsibility or accountability simply leads to chaos and lawlessness. People are losing trust in on-line commerce as increasingly they ...