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November 28, 2022

Meta Calls For UK Govt Rethink Over Plans To Scrap EU Laws

Facebook owner Meta is urging UK lawmakers considering legislation to scrap all retained European Union laws by 2024 to maintain some e-commerce rules.

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November 25, 2022

Experts Condemn The UK Online Safety Bill As Harmful To Privacy And Encryption

The UK Online Safety Bill is a deeply flawed censorship proposal that would allow UK residents to be thrown in jail for what they say online.

November 24, 2022

Meta’s surveillance biz model targeted in UK ‘right to object’ GDPR lawsuit

Meta’s surveillance business model is facing an interesting legal challenge in the U.K.

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November 7, 2022

125k people scanned by police cameras in London resulting in just nine arrrests

Facial recognition cameras have scanned the faces of more than 125,000 people in London in a little over a year, but resulted in just nine arrrests.

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November 2, 2022

The risk of losing our EU data adequacy agreement is real

While some welcome the shake up of the UK’s data protection regime, government should be wary of drifting too far from the EU GDPR.

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November 2, 2022

Data Protection Bill: Consultation to delay UK GDPR replacement

The Data Protection Bill, the UK’s post-Brexit replacement for EU GDPR data laws, faces further delays as a new consultation is planned.

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November 1, 2022

UK police use of live facial recognition unlawful and unethical, report finds

Study says deployment of technology in public by Met and South Wales police failed to meet standards.

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October 31, 2022

Privacy watchdog asks biz to drop AI that analyzes emotions

‘They may not work yet, or indeed ever,’ says ICO’s deputy commissioner.

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October 28, 2022

ICO Fines Easylife £1.48 Million For Data Protection Violations

The UK Information Commissioner’s Office (ICO) announced a fine in a case that involved inferring health data and using this for marketing.

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October 21, 2022

Neighbour wins privacy row over smart doorbell and cameras

The Amazon devices were found to invade privacy and break data laws in a landmark UK case.

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October 19, 2022

UK ICO Publishes Draft Employee Monitoring Guidance for Consultation

UK’s privacy watchdog launched a public consultation on its draft guidance on employers’ obligations when monitoring at work

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October 10, 2022

Prince Harry Sues UK Media Group Over Privacy Breach

6 public figures suing the publisher of the Daily Mail over alleged unlawful information-gathering at its titles.

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