Profile: Christopher Millard
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Law Firm: | Linklaters LLP |
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| Office: |
Linklaters LLP One Silk Street EC2Y 8HQ |
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| City: | London | |
| Country: | England | |
| Tel: | +44 20 7456 2676 | |
| Fax: | +44 20 7456 2222 | |
| Email: | christopher.millard@linklaters.com |
Internet and e-Commerce
Biography: Internet & e-Commerce
Christopher Millard is a partner in the technology, media and telecommunications group at Linklaters. He has 25 years' experience in the technology and communications law fields and has led many multi-jurisdictional information governance and data protection compliance projects. He has particular expertise in complex cross-border privacy compliance including strategies based on binding corporate rules.
As a visiting professorial Fellow of Queen Mary, University of London, he teaches on Masters of Law courses in IT law, internet law and telecommunications law. He is the author of many articles and book chapters on privacy, technology and communications law, is a general editor of the International Journal of Law and Information Technology (Oxford University Press) and is a founding editor of Data Protection Laws of the World. Mr Millard is a member of the International Chamber of Commerce's task force on privacy and protection of personal data and was a member of the OECD steering group on contractual solutions for transborder data flows. He is a past president of the International Federation of Computer Law Associations and a past chair of the Society for Computers and Law. He is a Fellow of the Royal Society of Arts and of the Society for Computers and Law. He has an LLB (Hons) from the University of Sheffield and an MA and an LLM from the University of Toronto.
Prior to joining Linklaters in 2002 he was with Clifford Chance for over 18 years, including 10 years as a partner.
This biography is an extract from The International Who's Who of Internet & e-Commerce Lawyers which can be purchased from our bookstore.
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Is It Time for Privacy 2.0?
‘Modern’ data protection laws first appeared in 1970 (in Germany) as a response to the use of computers to process information about people. At that time, however, there were relatively few computers and most were in the public or academic sectors, and at a few large corporations. Moreover, these machines tended to be housed in secure locations without direct connections to the outside world. For regulators, the task of tracking and supervising the processing of personal data might have been a realistic objective initially, although not for long.