Legitimate interest as legal grounds for processing personal data

Preclusion as to Issues of Law: The Legal System's Interest

Music Information Retrieval as a Key Framework to Explore Legal Issues Linked to Personal Data Computation

The forthcoming European regulation on data privacy penalizes violations by a fine of up to one hundred million euros: European Music Information Retrieval researchers must be compliant with any personal data processes. They are not allowed to transfer personal data to the rest of the world, excepted by using so-called “Safe

Data mining of Personal Information: Perspectives and Legal Barriers

This In recent years nearly all companies, agents and organisations use data warehousing systems in order to imprint their clients transactions. Consequently central repositories are build for all significant parts of data that the various business systems collect. Data from a wide range of online transaction processing applications and other sources are selectively extracted and organized on t...

Transparent Personal Data Processing: The Road Ahead

The European General Data Protection Regulation defines a set of obligations for personal data controllers and processors. Primary obligations include: obtaining explicit consent from the data subject for the processing of personal data, providing full transparency with respect to the processing, and enabling data rectification and erasure (albeit only in certain circumstances). At the core of ...

Consumers as tutors – legitimate teachers?

BACKGROUND The aim of this study was to research the feasibility of training mental health consumers as tutors for 4th year medical students in psychiatry. METHODS A partnership between a consumer network and an academic unit in Psychological Medicine was formed to jointly develop a training package for consumer tutors and a curriculum in interviewing skills for medical students. Student atti...