Data Privacy, Inquiry Decisions, and the Lurking Threat of Judicial Review
Regulation (EU) 2016/679 General Data Protection Regulation (GDPR) came into force across all member states within the European Union on 18 May 2018. It establishes a framework of legal principles, backed by appropriate enforcement mechanisms and sanctions, governing the use of information relating to identifiable private individuals (data subjects) by those who have sole or shared control (data controllers) over the information in question. The GDPR permits member states t