Anonymisation Through Separation: What Recent Cases Teach us About the EU’s Anonymisation Standards (Privacy and Data Protection)

Anonymisation remains a black hole at the core of data protection law. The point at which data have been transformed such that they are no longer personal data remains a largely unsettled question. Data, Privacy & Cybersecurity partner Lore Leitner, associate Gabe Maldoff, and trainee solicitor Mickey Lee examine the anonymisation framework emerging from EU courts and the European Commission in the Privacy and Data Protection journal.