The UK Information Commissioner’s Office (ICO) has recently published an update on its enforcement efforts in respect of website cookie compliance. It follows a letter the ICO sent in November 2023 to 53 of the top 100 UK...more
Following a re-think of the process for the authorisation of UK BCR after Brexit, the Information Commissioner’s Office (ICO) has devised a new mechanism to significantly streamline approvals. The new process, which was...more
Further to the UK CMA’s ‘Initial Review’ of AI foundation models back in May, the regulator has now published an ‘Initial Report’ setting out its evolving thinking on the regulation of AI. While there are no immediate...more
A cross-practice Global Regulatory & IPMT team hosted a roundtable discussion on the key requirements that industry would like to see incorporated in the UK Government’s approach to developing its AI regulatory framework....more
A few months after the UK Government published a White Paper on its approach to artificial intelligence regulation and invited comments from stakeholders, the Prime Minister Rishi Sunak has announced the UK will host a global...more
On 29 March 2023, the UK government published its long-awaited white paper on its intended approach to regulating AI. The proposal seeks to strike a balance between the primary policy objective of creating a ‘pro-innovation’...more
On 8 March 2023, the UK Department for Science, Information and Technology (DSIT) published the Data Protection and Digital Information (No.2) Bill (DPDI 2) which provides an update to the Government's reforms to the UK data...more
On 17 June 2022, the UK government published its refined plans for reforming UK data protection law, following a detailed consultation exercise undertaken last year. The proposals form part of wider changes to the UK...more
6/28/2022
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Hogan Lovells’ Privacy and Cybersecurity team have made a formal submission to the Information Commissioner’s Office consultation on how organisations can continue to protect people’s personal data when it is transferred...more
After months of arduous negotiations, the EU-UK Trade and Cooperation Agreement (the Brexit Deal) of 24 December 2020 is good news and provides a welcome degree of certainty to businesses....more
As highlighted by our new Privacy 2040 initiative, there have never been more opportunities to shape the existing and future privacy and cybersecurity legal framework. ...more
The UK’s consumer sector has shown resilience against the backdrop of challenging political and economic conditions. Consumers in the UK remain willing to spend; however, the way in which they do so is changing, with...more
2/19/2020
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On January 15, the Court of Justice of the European Union’s (CJEU) Advocate General (AG) Manuel Campos Sánchez-Bordona delivered his Opinion on four references for preliminary rulings on the topic of retention of and access...more
1/20/2020
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As a global insurance industry team, we aim to follow industry trends and developments as closely as possible in order to deliver well informed perspectives and thought leadership to our clients and contacts.
In the newly...more
5/22/2019
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Amid the constitutional and political uncertainties surrounding the Brexit process, the UK Government has provided welcome assurance on the data protection front. ...more
The draft text of the EU-UK withdrawal agreement was published by the UK Government and the European Union Wednesday, providing some of the first concrete indicators of the possible direction of travel in the area of data...more
As part of its preparations for a “no deal” scenario when the Article 50 negotiating period comes to an end on 29 March 2019, the Department for Digital, Culture, Media and Sport (“DDCMS”) has released guidance on “Data...more
The UK Government is realistically ambitious in terms of achieving two objectives: (a) the continued exchange of personal data between the UK and the EU, and (b) the ICO’s participation in the One Stop Shop mechanism of...more
Data brokers are organisations that obtain data from a variety of sources and then sell or license it to third parties. Many trade in personal data, which is purchased by their customers for several purposes, most commonly to...more
In yet another key case dealing with the balance between citizens’ privacy and the ability of the state to intrude into it, the Court of Justice of the European Union (CJEU) has ruled on the compatibility with European Union...more
12/23/2016
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