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Lexis®PSL Information law weekly highlights—27 April 2017

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Published on: 28 April 2017

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Table of contents

Headlines (News updates & analysis)
Brexit—Global Britain—spotlight on international trade with New Zealand
Brexit—Northern Ireland and the Good Friday Agreement
Cybersecurity—Europol helps bring down global cybercrime ring
Data protection—New trigger created for invoking WHOIS procedure
Data protection—EDPS issues Opinion on proposed ePrivacy Regulation
Data protection—European Commission expresses concern over interpretation of GDPR data portability clause
Data protection—Form for submitting data requests to Privacy Shield Ombudsperson published
Reputation management—Fact, fiction and fake news—automated fact-checking
Reputation management—Fact, fiction and fake news—bringing a claim of defamation

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Article summary

Welcome to the weekly highlights from the Lexis®PSL Information Law team for the week ending 27 April 2017. This week’s edition includes updates on the following topics: (1) Brexit; (2) Cybersecurity; and (3) Data protection; (4) Environmental information regulation; and (5) Reputation management as well as details of Lexis®Webinars.

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