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Regulating AI: Businesses need to prepare for increasing risk of future disputes

With AI we face a combination of accelerating technological development and, depending on the jurisdiction, a greater or lesser degree of legislative intervention. Artificial intelligence burst into our collective...more

Compensation claims under the GDPR unpicking the latest EU and English case law and looking ahead

The first week of May 2023 saw further EU case law emerge on the right to compensation under the GDPR, and in this blog we analyse the implications of these latest rulings and consider what may be coming next....more

Österreichische Post AG Another nail in the coffin of class actions under the GDPR

In finding that “mere upset” alone does not give rise to compensation under the GDPR, the Advocate General of the Court of Justice of the EU may have dealt another blow to those pursuing class actions under the GDPR....more

Beyond Lloyd v Google: Are class actions for data breach dead?

The decision of the UK Supreme Court in Lloyd v Google is a welcome relief for data controllers. However, is it the end of class actions for data breach?...more

Lloyd v Google a sigh of relief for data controllers

In unanimously refusing to allow a representative action to proceed, the UK Supreme Court may have sounded the death knell for opt-out class actions in England for data breaches: Lloyd v Google [2021] UKSC 50....more

Surveillance reports may not be privileged

A dispute about the use of private investigators highlights some attendant risks, in particular the possibility that the report generated may not be privileged: Gerrard & Gerrard v Eurasian Natural Resources Corporation Ltd &...more

Data protection representative “class” action gets the go ahead

Did you have an iPhone in 2011/2012? I still had a BlackBerry. If I had had an iPhone, I would have been a member of the class of more than four million users on whose behalf Mr Lloyd makes this claim. It is alleged that...more

GDPR for Litigators

Virtually all evidence, whether in litigation or arbitration or relating to investigations carried out by regulators or enforcement authorities, will contain some personal data. A year on from the EU General Data Protection...more

Employer vicariously liable for rogue employee’s data breach

An employer was held by the Court of Appeal to be vicariously liable for a rogue employee’s deliberate and criminal disclosure of the personal data of other employees. This was despite the employee’s aim being to harm the...more

GDPR for Litigators

The EU General Data Protection Regulation (universally known as GDPR) has become ubiquitous. Less understood is what GDPR means for disputes and contentious regulatory/enforcement matters. Virtually all evidence, whether in...more

A round-up of some of the most interesting developments to look out for in 2018 for disputes lawyers

Brexit - It is impossible not to mention Brexit which will be defined by the politics. 2018 is also likely to bring a significant increase in UK policymaking and related legislative change. We expect to see the publication...more

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