Life With GDPR: Cathay Pacific Enforcement Action
Life With GDPR: Episode 30- British Airways Data Breach Enforcement Action
E18: ICANN Loses First GDPR Court Ruling in Germany
On 17 July 2024, the King’s Speech and associated background briefing notes were presented and published. These contain a summary of the new government’s plans, including two proposed bills that relate to changes to the UK’s...more
Introduction The UK’s Online Safety Act (OSA) imposes extensive obligations on certain types of online service providers to protect users from illegal and harmful content. A key focus of the OSA is the protection of children...more
The Information Commissioner’s Office (ICO), the UK’s data protection regulator, has published an opinion on age assurance for internet society services (ISS). The opinion aims to explain how a company can use technology in...more
Understanding the ICO’s approach to assessing financial penalties should be a key element of an organisation’s data protection strategy and risk profile. In an era when data protection infringements can tarnish business...more
The UK Information Commissioner’s Office (ICO) issued guidance on content moderation technologies and processes for the first time (the Guidance). In its press release on 16 February 2024, the ICO flagged the need for content...more
The Information Commissioner’s Office (ICO) launched a campaign called ‘Think. Check. Share’ (the Campaign) on 29 January 2024, to promote responsible data sharing to safeguard children. The Campaign aims to provide...more
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
There’s so much activity around generative AI! This is a hot topic for us data privacy folks as it presents new challenges for the protection of personal data. Call us sad, but we get very excited about it!...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
On 10 October 2023, the England and Wales Court of Appeal handed down its decision in Delo, R. (On the Application Of) v. The Information Commissioner1, in which it upheld an earlier High Court ruling that the UK’s data...more
Closely following the establishment of the EU-US Data Privacy Framework (DPF) – see our July 2023 post – the UK has now agreed to an extension for the transfer of personal data from the UK to the US, known as the UK Extension...more
Katten's Privacy, Data and Cybersecurity Quick Clicks is a monthly newsletter highlighting the latest news and legal developments involving privacy, data and cybersecurity issues across the globe....more
On August 24, the Information Commissioner’s Office (ICO) issued a joint statement in conjunction with 11 other global authorities responsible for data protection and privacy on data scraping. Data scraping is the process of...more
The UK Information Commissioner’s Office (“ICO”) has published a report on the evolving nature of neurotechnology and its implications for data protection laws. The report highlights the risks of neurotechnology and sets the...more
The UK Information Commissioner's Office (ICO) published a report on neurotechnology and released an accompanying statement on 8 June 2023....more
Within the past year, a number of countries around the world, including the United States, United Kingdom, France, and The Netherlands have initiated regulatory inquiries and developed new strategies for the purpose of more...more
It’s 1 September 2022 and I’m back at my desk at Allen & Overy having spent the last six months on secondment to the Legal Services team at the UK Information Commissioner’s Office. So how did it go?...more
On 18 July 2022 the Data Protection and Digital Information Bill (the Bill) was introduced for discussion into parliament, in one of the UK's first drives towards data protection reform after Brexit....more
In this month’s Privacy & Cybersecurity Update, we examine the FTC’s blog post suggesting an increased focus on protecting consumers’ sensitive data and Plaid’s settlement to resolve a class action arising from its data...more
On July 8, 2022, the UK Information Commissioner’s Office (UK ICO) together with the UK National Cyber Security Centre (NCSC), published a joint letter asking the Law Society of England & Wales to remind its members that they...more
Introduction - The data protection landscape in the UK, and globally, continues to evolve. The pace and number of initiatives has continued into 2022. This requires a step back – to look for key trends and the most relevant...more
In this month’s Privacy & Cybersecurity Update, we review Connecticut’s passage of a comprehensive privacy law (making it the fifth state to do so), the newly enacted federal Better Cybercrime Metrics Act, New York’s new law...more
Welcome to this month's issue of The BR Privacy & Security Download, the digital newsletter of Blank Rome’s Privacy, Security & Data Protection practice. ...more
On September 10, the U.K. government launched a consultation “Data: A New Direction” (Consultation), which proposes significant changes to the U.K.’s data protection framework. The U.K. government has signalled its...more
On 9 September 2021, the UK’s Digital Secretary, Oliver Dowden, announced a series of reforms to drive innovation and growth in the UK’s data sector. The Government clarifies that one of the key objectives of the reforms is...more