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 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.