Oct 31, 2024 The Online Safety Act turns one: Where are we now? By Kiran Sidhu Rose Lynch Subha Kumar The journey so far 26 October marked the first anniversary of the UK’s Online Safety Act (the Act) receiving Royal Assent. This was the...
Oct 30, 2024 CJEU confirms that competitors can sue for breaches of the GDPR (using local competition rules) By Francion Brooks Antonia Kendrick The Court of Justice of the European Union (CJEU) recently confirmed that a competitor, who is not a ‘data subject’ under the GDPR, has...
Oct 29, 2024 International transfers under the Data (Use and Access) Bill By Mac Macmillan Cross-border data transfers are possibly one of the biggest administrative headaches for controllers and processors so companies may be...
Oct 28, 2024 GDPR and scientific research in the UK: what does the Data (Use and Access) Bill have to say? By Mac Macmillan Back in July I speculated, based on the King's Speech, that the new government's proposals for scientific research were likely to be a...
Oct 25, 2024 UK Government introduces Data (Use and Access) Bill to Parliament By Hannah Crowther The UK Government has introduced the new Data (Use and Access) Bill to Parliament. I’m not going to lie - I don’t love it. Sadly, it...
Oct 24, 2024 Global online safety: Ireland’s media regulator adopts online safety code for video sharing platforms By Anna Ní Uiginn Faye Harrison With the UK’s Online Safety Act due to start its gradual entry into force in December, we are starting to see online safety taking centre...
Oct 23, 2024 Podcast: Anonymisation By Hannah Crowther Mac Macmillan In this episode, Hannah Crowther and Mac Macmillan discuss anonymisation. We cover the latest case law and guidance, and consider how to...
Oct 21, 2024 UK and US issue joint statement pledging closer cooperation on children’s online safety By Vivien Zhu Faye Harrison On 10 October 2024, the UK and US governments issued a joint statement announcing the formation of a new joint children’s online safety...
Oct 16, 2024 EDPB releases final version guidelines on interpretation of Article 5(3) By Hannah Crowther BIG NEWS ALERT! The final version of the EDPB guidelines on the interpretation of Article 5(3) ePrivacy just dropped. And the bad news...
Oct 15, 2024 Safer Phones Bill to be discussed in Parliament this week By Faye Harrison As we await the Online Safety Act's gradual entry into force, with Ofcom expected to finalise its first online safety codes by the end of...
Sep 27, 2024 The past week in data protection By Jamie Drucker Here are the data protection news items which caught my eye this week: Firstly, a bit of breaking news. The Irish DPC has fined Meta €91m...
Sep 20, 2024 The past week (or so) in data protection By Jamie Drucker It’s time for a short bite-sized round-up of the data protection stories which caught my eye over the last week or so. Another set of new...