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European Court Rules on When First Access Requests May be Excessive

Can a data controller reject a data subject’s first data access request on the basis that it is “excessive”? Until recently, many organisations were cautious and adopted an agnosti...

Your Right to Know: How to jump-start your records requests

Is Your Business Ready to Comply with the New Requirements for UK Data Protection Complaints?

Beginning June 19, 2026, the new statutory right to complain introduced into UK data protection law by the Data (Use and Access) Act 2025 (DUAA) will take effect. As introduced by...

'For the People' means citizens and media have access to government records

The Ottawa Citizen's Letter to the Editor, Saturday, May 16

Court rules X must give privacy researcher access to personal data in privacy case

The Amsterdam Court of Appeal has ruled that entrepreneur and privacy expert Danny Mekić is entitled to see the personal data held on him by X.

(Part II) Right Without Duty: Academic Copyright, the Publisher’s Juridical Fiction, and the Case for an Ex Ante Reading...

Continuing the discussion on the Scihub litigation, in Part II of their post, Rishabh Upadhyay and Pragati Upadhyay turn to the August 2025 order as a vantage point to examine what...

UK Data Protection Update – the New “Right to Complain”

From June 19, 2026, individuals will have the right to complain about breaches of UK data protection laws relating to their personal data. Further to our previous article, the new...

Rights, access and control in Canada’s Consumer-Driven Banking era

At Open Banking Expo Canada, representatives from MX, FDATA, Wealthsimple and Borrowell examined what it will take to build a system that is trusted by consumers and viable for the...

(Part I) Right Without Duty: Academic Copyright, the Publisher’s Juridical Fiction, and the Case for an Ex Ante Reading...

The Sci-Hub litigation has dragged on for years without confronting the core question it presents: what is the purpose of copyright in academic works? As the Court circles procedur...

‘Make IDs much more accessible’

Tapiwa Chirume THE government needs to improve citizens’ access to key national documents, the Zimbabwe Human Rights Commission (ZHRC) says.This comes as... To access th...

‘Make IDs much more accessible’

Tapiwa Chirume THE government needs to improve citizens’ access to key national documents, the Zimbabwe Human Rights Commission (ZHRC) says.This comes as... To access th...

Your Right to Know: How to solve high record costs and long delays

Access to justice remains in the balance

Collective actions.