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Morrison & Foerster LLP

European Digital Compliance: Key Digital Regulation & Compliance Developments - May 2024

To help organizations stay on top of the main developments in European digital compliance, Morrison Foerster’s European Digital Regulatory Compliance team reports on some of the main topical digital regulatory and compliance...more

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Key Updates for UK Employers: A Look Through to the End of 2023 and Beyond

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The regulatory landscape for UK employers has evolved significantly over the second half of 2023. New legislation is in force or is due to come into force over the next 12 months, covering a variety of employment-related...more

Dechert LLP

Tribunal Overturns UK ICO’s Enforcement Action Against Clearview AI

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Clearview AI was issued with an enforcement action including a fine of around £7.5million and an order to delete certain data by the ICO for breaches of the UK GDPR in relation to its facial recognition data. The Tribunal...more

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Dechert Cyber Bits - Issue 43 | Key Developments in Privacy & Cybersecurity

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NSA and CISA Release Report on “Top Ten” Cybersecurity Misconfigurations; CISA Calls for Software Manufacturers to Implement Best Practices - On October 5, 2023, the United States National Security Agency (NSA) and...more

A&O Shearman

Pensions: what's new this week - 11 September 2023

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Welcome to your weekly update from the Allen & Overy Pensions team, covering all the latest legal and regulatory developments in the world of workplace pensions. This week we cover the following topics: HMRC Pensions Tax...more

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Getting to Know Who: ICO Draft Guidance on Biometric Recognition

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On 18 August 2023, the UK’s Information Commissioner’s Office (“ICO”) published draft guidance on biometric recognition (the “Draft Guidance”) for public consultation. The Draft Guidance explains how data protection law...more

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Pensions: what's new this week - 4 September 2023

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The Pensions Regulator (TPR) has published a blog post discussing what trustees can do to make climate scenario analysis more ‘decision-useful’. This follows recent criticism of some analysis used by trustees for their annual...more

Thomas Fox - Compliance Evangelist

Life with GDPR - ICO Gets Serious About Subject Access Requests

How do GDPR, data privacy, and data protection impact your business? In this podcast, Data Privacy/Data Security expert Jonathan Armstrong, co-founder of Cordery Compliance, and I use the framework of GDPR to discuss a wide...more

Dechert LLP

Dechert Cyber Bits - Issue 19

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CJEU: Special Category Data Just Got More Complicated - On August 1, 2022, the Court of Justice of the European Union (“CJEU”) delivered a preliminary ruling on the legal interpretation of special categories of personal...more

Sheppard Mullin Richter & Hampton LLP

UK ICO and NCSC Issues Caution About Making Ransomware Payments

In a recent letter to the UK law society, the UK Information Commissioner’s Office and the National Cyber Security Centre have provided lawyers with advice about ransomware payments...more

Thomas Fox - Compliance Evangelist

Life with GDPR - Clearview AI Fine by the ICO

Jonathan Armstrong and I return for another episode of Life with GDPR. In this episode, we took up a fine in the UK by the ICO against Clearview AI and previously discussed other EU countries’ fines against Clearview. Some of...more

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UK Data Privacy Regulator Publishes Guidance Following Relaxation of COVID Measures

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In response to the government’s relaxation on COVID-19 restrictions, the UK’s data protection regulator, the Information Commissioner’s Office (the ICO), has published guidance for employers on their data protection...more

Jenner & Block

Big Tech Ally Could Advise the ICO on Enforcement Action

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Since 2018, the decision-making arsenal of the UK Information Commissioner’s Office (“ICO”) has included the Regulatory Panel, a body tasked with making independent recommendations to the Commissioner regarding proposed...more

Wyrick Robbins Yates & Ponton LLP

Transfer Tedium: Adapting the New SCCs to Account for Transfers from Switzerland and the UK

As the September 27th deadline to implement the new Standard Contractual Clauses (“SCCs”) approaches, many privacy practitioners are working overtime to help their clients update their standard data processing addenda to...more

Orrick, Herrington & Sutcliffe LLP

The UK's Age-Appropriate Design Code Comes into Force in September 2021

One in five United Kingdom ("UK") internet users are under 18, and, according to the UK's Information Commissioner Office (the "ICO"), "are using an internet that was not designed for them." Under the UK's Data Protection Act...more

Orrick, Herrington & Sutcliffe LLP

10 Things You Should Know About the New Standard Contractual Clauses

Orrick's Cyber, Privacy & Data Innovation and IP Licensing & Technology Transactions groups cover the top 10 things you need to know about the new Standard Contractual Clauses ("SCCs") published today by the European...more

Thomas Fox - Compliance Evangelist

Life With GDPR: Episode 50-The Experian Enforcement Notice Case

In this episode Jonathan Armstrong and Tom Fox are back to discuss issues relating to data privacy, data protection and GDPR. Today, we consider the Experian enforcement action. Recently, the UK Data Protection Authority, the...more

Thomas Fox - Compliance Evangelist

SARS and Liability Issues under GDPR

In this episode Jonathan Armstrong and Tom Fox are back to discuss issues relating to data privacy, data protection and GDPR. Today, we consider the increase in subject access requests (SARs) and other liability issues under...more

Dechert LLP

New ICO Guidance on Subject Access Requests

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The Information Commissioner’s Office (ICO), the UK’s data protection authority, has recently published updated guidance on an individual’s right to access their personal data. This OnPoint considers the key issues arising...more

White & Case LLP

UK ICO fines BA £20m for data breach

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In a remarkable decision, the UK ICO has issued British Airways ("BA") with a £20m fine, in connection with a data breach affecting more than 400,000 customers. This is a significant reduction from the £183m the ICO had...more

Hogan Lovells

Five conclusions from the UK ICO's British Airways fine

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On 16 October the UK Information Commissioner (ICO) confirmed that it had imposed a fine of £20m on British Airways (BA) for infringing the GDPR by failing to protect the personal data of approximately 400,000 of its...more

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ICO Publishes Detailed Guidance on Right of Access

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On 21 October 2020 the UK data protection authority (ICO) published a new Right of Access Detailed Guidance (SAR Guidance), following the public consultation on the SAR Draft Guidance (Draft Guidance) which ran from December...more

Rothwell, Figg, Ernst & Manbeck, P.C.

Speed Dating in the UK? Negotiating New Data Protection Relationships with the EU

With all that has happened this year, most of us can’t wait until 2020 is in the rear view mirror.  The end of 2020, however, marks the end of the transition period provided, post-Brexit, to allow time for UK businesses and...more

Skadden, Arps, Slate, Meagher & Flom LLP

Privacy & Cybersecurity Update - August 2020

In this month's edition of our Privacy & Cybersecurity Update, we examine the National Institute of Standards and Technology's four principles of the "explainability" of artificial intelligence and the U.K. Information...more

Hogan Lovells

UK ICO issues new guidance on AI and data protection

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On July 30 the UK ICO published new guidance on AI and data protection. The guidance is intended to provide organisations that are either using or developing artificial intelligence technologies, with practical...more

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