Data Protection Law under the Labour Government
After Rishi Sunak announced a general election back in May, the Data Protection & Digtial Information (No.2) Bill (the UK government at the time’s attempt … Read more
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The ICO have issued guidance on the use of biometric data
The ICO has issued guidance explaining how data protection applies to the use of biometric data, which is considered a special category data when used … Read more
US data protection law update
A Bill for an American Privacy Rights Act has been unveiled. If enacted, this would be a national data privacy standard. The Bill as currently … Read more
UK Data Protection & Digital Information Bill is (for now) no more
The Data Protection & Digital Information (No.2) Bill, the UK government’s attempt to make changes to the EU’s GDPR, was at report stage in the … Read more
2022 Queen’s speech includes plans to reform UK data protection laws
You may recall towards the end of 2021 that the UK government announced that it was looking to “overhaul” the UK’s data protection regime and … Read more
UK gets GDPR adequacy from the EU
On the 28th June, the EU Commission adopted an adequacy decision for the UK. The adequacy decision means the free flow of data from the … Read more
UPDATED: Some breathing space for GDPR in the Brexit trade agreement
Jan 4th 2021 UPDATE: It turns out that the UK-EU Trade Agreement and the delay to EU to UK restricted data flows (i.e. the decision … Read more
GDPR when the Brexit transition ends (in January 2021)
At the time of writing this article (22nd December 2020), we’re less than 2 weeks away from the end of the Brexit transition period and … Read more
£20m not £183m fine for BA after website security breach
You’ll recall back in July last year the ICO indicated it intended to fine British Airways £183m for a data breach it had suffered via … Read more