“The Court of Appeal’s judgment in R (Open Rights Group and the3million) v Secretary of State for the Home Department and Others [2021] EWCA Civ 800, handed down this morning, concludes that the ‘immigration exemption’ in Schedule 2 to the DPA 2018 is not compliant with the GDPR. That is a very significant conclusion in its own right, from the perspectives of both immigration and data protection law. But the Court’s analysis also applies to a more general question: what does a valid (ie GDPR-compliant) exemption from data protection rights and duties look like? …” (more)
[Robin Hopkins, Panopticon, 26 May]
First posted 2021-05-26 17:45:19
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