Data protection principles
The fundamental principles underpinning all data protection requirements set out in the Regulation (EU) 2016/679 (the ’GDPR’). The principles are explicitly declared in article 5 but they have been gradually developed and established in European law. The right to privacy was first proclaimed in the United Nation’s Universal Declaration of Human Rights but the beginnings […]
Processing of personal data using blockchain technology
The European Data Protection Board (’EDPB’) has recently published its Guidelines 02/2025 on processing of personal data through blockchain technologies which analyse the challenges posed by the technology on the lawful processing of personal data. The EDPB finds that certain characteristics of blockchain technology clash with the data protection principles enshrined in the GDPR and […]