Lawyers

• UK surveillance law under review by European court

  The European Court of Justice today reviews UK's surveillance laws, the outcome of which will have a profound impact on the shape and scope of its future intelligence gathering activities.

• France indicts Google over “right to be forgotten," fines company $112k

  The French data protection authority claimed that it has fined Alphabet Inc.'s Google 100,000 euros. The company allegedly did not scrub web search results widely enough in response to a European privacy ruling.

• US-EU finalizes data sharing deal; EU believes that benefits will outweigh the risk of privacy

  The US and EU has been making final adjustment for the data sharing deal. The Eurpean Union made sure that it will safeguard the privacy of its citizens and the result of this deal will be beneficial to all European countries.

• US Senate Judiciary Committee Approves Bill Boosting Europeans' Data Privacy Protection

  European users of the internet might now have the same data protection rights as American users, including the ability to correct chared records and even sue the American government for online privacy infringements.

• EU should keep limit on bank bonus, adviser says in blow to UK

  Britain's relations with the European Union took another knock on Thursday when its legal challenge to a limit on bankers' bonuses was rejected by an adviser to the bloc's top court.

• 2014 World Cup sheds light on benefits of player migration laws to non-European national teams

  Chrysovalantis Vasilakis of the University of Warwick has reportedly found in a study of the increased globalization of soccer that by relaxing the rules on player migration endows significant benefits to those who have decided to move and for those who chose to stay.

• Google plans to flag search results to comply with 'right to be forgotten' ruling

  According to a report by the Irish Times, Google Inc is mulling over placing an alert at the bottom of every search page to indicate that it has removed certain links to information as per user request in compliance to a controversial ruling by the European Court of Justice on May 13th.

• Report lists top 5 people who would want the 'right to be forgotten'

  BBC lists the top five types of people who could benefit from the recent European Union court ruling on granting a person's request to remove links to personal information on Google.

• Report says 'right to be forgotten' will never happen in the US

  TIME said privacy protections in the US comes in a form of a group of state and federal laws aimed at specific groups of people, unlike the single, more broad coverage legal measure the European Union has in place following a controversial ruling on a Spanish lawyer's request to remove information about his debts on Google.

• Legal expert says EU court ruling on Google links has impact on paywalls, data mining

  An industry expert revealed to PCWorld that the latest ruling that ordered Google Inc to remove links to personal information of an individual could make data mining and research more difficult online.

• Uk fails in initial bid to strike down transaction tax proposal

  Despite the UK's defeat in its initial challenge to the proposed common financial-transactions tax in the European Court of Justice, its Treasury department said that the nation has plans to continue pursuing with its case even after the measure has been implemented, Bloomberg said.

• EU court strikes down data retention law, cites violation of privacy rights

  The European Court of Justice said in a statement following its ruling regarding the European Union's 2006 data retention law that the current statute violates the citizens' rights to privacy.

• EU Court says websites can link to free content, rules it's legal

  The European Court of Justice said in a ruling that it is legal for a website to publish links to works of authors as long as the works had been published. The regulator said that the fact that the works are already published online did not violate the "act of communication to the public" provision of the region's copyright law.