Author name: Cleary Solicitors

Owner management companies must comply with the Companies Act 2014. Owner management companies evidently process data which detail of the financial management, property title, list of names and address of members. The companies act states that a members register is a public document. All personal data detailed in the register of members has to comply […]

The charter of the fundamental rights of the EU is the fundamental law of EU. The charter states that everyone has the right for protection regarding his/her personal data. It mandates that data has to be processed fairly. It has to be processed for a specific purpose on the basis of consent OR some other

The General Data Protection Regulation was introduced to improve data privacy rights and security of EU citizens. One of the goals was to harmonize data privacy laws throughout the EU / EEA. The GDPR regulation under article 3 deals with the Territorial Scope of the regulation. The territorial scope is broad in essence. Under section

Personal Data under the GDPR regulations is defined as : ‘personal data’ means any information relating to an identified or identifiable natural person (‘data subject’); an identifiable natural person is one who can be identified, directly or indirectly. Therefore a photo quite simply of a person which identifies the person can be included as personal

This European Union Directive was created to regulate the processing of personal data in the EU detailed how personal data was also a free movement matter. This directive is an important part of EU law regarding human rights and privacy law. A right to privacy is recognised in article 8 of the EU Convention on

A data controller has a duty of care regarding personal data to a data subject. This includes the collecting so from the start and the dealing with the data. Section 2A of the DPACT states that Personal data shall not be processed by a data controller unless section 2 of this Act (as amended by the Act