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1000s of people have been part of developing the Scottish Human Rights Bill. Live from our event: The Scottish Human Rights Bill: Priorities, Promises and People, our director Mhairi spells out the reasons for why incorporating international human rights is non-negotiable. 🧵

Join us on 18th June for 'The Scottish Human Rights Bill: priorities, promises and people'! We'll be joined by @scothumanrights & @PovertyAlliance to delve into the impacts that human rights incorporation could have for people in Scotland. Register: buff.ly/45aHmMg

#ECJ: #EUlaw precludes the general and indiscriminate retention of traffic and location data relating to electronic communications for the purposes of combating serious crime #PersonalData 👉 curia.europa.eu/jcms/jcms/Jo2_…

Lots of discussions on the enforcement of the #GDPR happening in Brussels: 📆 On Thursday 17 March, tune in to @EP_Justice for a hearing from 9h-12h with @CNIL, @FusterGloria, @beuc, @maxschrems, @EU_Justice, @Datatilsynet & more Follow live here: multimedia.europarl.europa.eu/webstreaming/c…

Dear Legal Hackers community, we are asking for your help! @AnkLegalHackers @DCLegalHackers @legalhackNYC @LALegalHackers @LegalHackersPA @legalhackerspan

We have launched a complaint to the European Ombudsman @EUombudsman against the European Commission for 1. not acting against Ireland's failure to uphold the GDPR, and 2. not monitoring the GDPR's application. @ICCLtweet @DReynders iccl.ie/news/iccl-laun…

Judgment has been handed down this morning in the case of Lloyd (Respondent) v Google LLC (Appellant) – UKSC 2019/0213 supremecourt.uk/cases/uksc-201…

Want to be a #HumanRights Lawyer? 💪🏽 Apply here for our 2022 Traineeship @justrightscot sponsored by @The_LEF Justice First Fellowship 👇🏽

CMA launches action against British Airways and Ryanair over refunds gov.uk/government/new…

The Autorité de la concurrence hands out a €220 million fine to Google for favouring its own services in the online advertising sector #AdTech autoritedelaconcurrence.fr/en/press-relea…

Every woman leaving custody from HMP Cornton Vale can access our Handbag of Hope project, a handbag filled with essential toiletries. If you have preloved handbags in good condition and of a size to hold full sized toiletry bottles, we’d love to put them to good use!

📢 63% of EU citizens want a secure single digital ID for all online services. With our #EUdigitalidentity wallet, you will be able to connect through #DigitalEU services and authenticate much easier. Thread on our proposal for a European Digital Identity ↓

We opened an antitrust investigation into possible anticompetitive conduct of Facebook. We will assess whether Facebook violated EU competition rules by using advertising data gathered from advertisers to compete with them in markets where Facebook is active. @vestager

UK and EU launch antitrust probes into Facebook on.ft.com/3wTwDTS

Digital forensics experts prone to bias, study shows theguardian.com/science/2021/m…

Asparagus recipe appears in Belgian #law database bbc.com/news/world-eur…

.@EU_Commission and national #ConsumerProtection authorities call on @tiktok_us to review its commercial practices + policies, to make sure they comply with EU consumer rules. Read more➡️ec.europa.eu/commission/pre…