UK

July 3, 2020

ICO Teams Up with CMA and Ofcom in Digital Regulation Cooperation Forum

On July 1, 2020, the UK Information Commissioner’s Office (“ICO”) launched a joint endeavor with the Competition and Markets Authority […]

June 26, 2020

With pubs and restaurants required to collect customer data for contact tracing when they reopen, data privacy risks will be […]

June 18, 2020

Fraudulent online advertising is being targeted via a new reporting system created by UK authorities. The UK Scam Ad Alert, […]

June 17, 2020

Safeguards outlined in a preliminary data-sharing agreement struck between the UK and US last year may not be sufficient, the […]

June 16, 2020

Council of the EU had warned UK could be excluded from crime-fighting system if it didn’t ‘review’ its data-sharing policy. […]

June 14, 2020

The UK government has outlined an ambitious plan to reach a set of international agreements on data that it claims […]

June 12, 2020

EU GDPR will no longer apply directly to UK businesses after the transition period (January 2021). However, in spite of this, […]

June 5, 2020

Open Rights Group has instructed lawyers to lodge a complaint with the UK’s data watchdog over the rollout of the […]

June 3, 2020

It has emerged that the UK’s Coronavirus Test and Trace programme failed to complete a data protection impact assessment (DPIA) […]

June 3, 2020

An artificial intelligence firm hired to work on the Vote Leave campaign may analyse social media data, utility bills and […]

May 27, 2020

UK budget airline easyJet is facing an £18 billion class-action lawsuit filed on behalf of customers impacted by a recently-disclosed […]

May 27, 2020

In his remarks following Round 3 of negotiations for a new partnership between the European Union and the United Kingdom […]