Changes to the Federal Common Rule - what you need to know
2018 is finally upon us, and many expectant privacy professionals have their eyes trained towards May â when the General […]
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Lessons learnt from UK cyber breach enforcement case
On 10 January 2018, the UK ICO issued a fine to Carphone Warehouse amounting to £400,000, close to the maximum […]
UK’s DPA expands guidance on data breaches
United Kingdom’s Information Commissioner’s Office (‘ICO’) on 12 January 2018 announced that it had expanded its guidance on personal data […]
UK’s DPA fines firms behind millions of nuisance calls, spam emails and SMS
Four companies that disrupted people with nuisance marketing have been fined a total of £600,000 by the Information Commissioner’s Office. […]
Researchers to be free to test anonymisation measures under UK data protection reforms
Planned changes to UK data protection laws will not put security researchers at risk of breaking the law when they […]
Carphone Warehouse fined for ‘striking’ number of failures that led to data breach
Information Commissioner’s Office fines company £400,000 for ‘concerning’ security issues following investigation of hack of 3m customers’ data. Source: Carphone […]
UK is a 3rd country for data transfers from 30 March 2019
In a notice issued yesterday, the EU Commission makes clear that ‘in view of the considerable uncertainties, in particular concerning […]
Fines under GDPR wait for businesses that fail to fix known security flaws now, says UK watchdog
Data breaches that arise after new EU data protection laws take effect but which stem from security flaws that were […]
UK’s Data protection bill amended to protect security researchers
The government is to amend the data protection bill to protect security researchers who work to uncover abuses of personal […]
New Year resolution: “I will collect details of transfers from the European Union into the UK and vice-versa”
Mrs May, at the last Prime Minister’s Questions before the Xmas recess, said in response to a question from a […]
Hacked and hacked off: without change this new data law will fail victims
The data protection bill must be amended so independent organisations acting in the public interest can help consumers to get […]
2018 global legislative predictions in privacy
Taking a look at the activities of 2017, it’s clear that the coming year will see lots of movement on […]