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6 Int'l Data Priv. L. 1 (2016)

handle is hein.journals/intldatpc6 and id is 1 raw text is: International Data Privacy Law, 2016, Vol. 6, No. 1 A time of turmoil ... Christopher Kuner*, Dan Jerker B. Svantesson**, Fred H. Cate***, Orla Lynskey***, and Christopher Millard*** The opening text (the 'crawl') of the first movie in the Star Wars Prequel Trilogy-Episode 1: The Phantom Menace-opens with the sentence: 'Turmoil has engulfed the Galactic Republic.' And given the current state of data privacy law, and the fact that Star Wars Episode 7: The Force Awakens has just premiered at the time of writing, it is natural to make the connection-turmoil has truly engulfed the data privacy world at the moment. Much has happened, and is happening, around the world. But even if we restrict ourselves to the EU context, 2015 saw some very dramatic developments. During 2015, we got to witness the aftermath of the so- called Google Spain-'right to be forgotten'-judgment of the Court of Justice of the EU. The future of develop- ments, not least as to the jurisdictional scope of right to be forgotten delistings, is clouded and difficult to predict, with long-term implications that are yet to come. And then, there was the Court's Weltimmo judgment-a landmark decision with potentially huge implications for applicable law and jurisdiction. And yet, both these judgments have been oversha- dowed by the CJEU's Safe Harbour decision in the case Schrems v Data Protection Commissioner of 6 October 2015, in which the CJEU held that the European Commission's decision that the 'Safe Harbour' scheme provided adequate protection for transatlantic data transfers was invalid. Finally, perhaps the biggest news of the year was the December announcement that a political agreement had been reached on the EU's General Data Protection Regulation in the so-called tri- logue between the European Parliament, Council, and Commission. Year 2016 will doubtlessly see further turmoil, and it will no doubt be some time before stability returns to the data privacy galaxy. This continuing turmoil may perhaps represent an opportunity for data privacy pro- fessionals, but it brings a time of considerable adjust- ment for data controllers, data processors, regulators, and individuals all over the world. * Editor-in-Chief. ** Managing Editor. In the midst of all this turmoil, International Data Privacy Law has entered its 6th year. In the first 5 years, we published 110 full length articles, 8 Tomorrow's Privacy, 12 comments, and 14 book reviews totalling in 1522 pages of content (when we include the Editorials that accompany every issue). We have had authors from North America, South America, Africa, Asia, Australia, and Europe, and while articles dealing with data privacy issues feature in a variety of journals these days, we have been one of the few journals to provide a truly inter- national coverage publishing detailed articles on privacy law, eg in various African countries. Our authors include privacy professionals, academics, and policymakers as well as practising lawyers and judges, and our readers are even more diverse. We have published four special issues; the first two (Vol. 2, No. 4 and Vol. 4, No. 1) dealing with systematic government access to private- sector data, the third (Vol. 4, No. 4) focussed on the EU data protection reform, and the fourth (Vol. 5, No. 4) addressing the topic of extraterritoriality in EU data pro- tection law. We are pleased that they have all been well received, and we plan to publish further special issues in the future. While we can provide metrics showing their popular- ity, it is not possible to reliably assess which of the arti- cles we have published have had the greatest influence or significance. And in fact, attempts at making such an as- sessment are both bound to fail and are of questionable utility. After all, there is an endless range of options for how such statistics maybe presented, and it is impossible to predict the articles' future impact. However, using the bluntest statistics available to us-cumulative download statistics-of the articles (including editorials) made available for free on the OUP website (typically, one article per issue is made freely available on the web, as are all editorials), Table 1 can be presented. And amongst the articles available only through sub- scription, we see the 'top list' measured by the number of downloads in Table 2. *** Editor. C The Author 2016. Published by Oxford University Press. All rights reserved. For Permissions, please email: journals.permissions@oup.com 1

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