21 Mar, 2024 Who’s who? ICO clarifies rules for biometric recognition By Rebecca Cousin Facial recognition has been in the headlines over the last year, both in usage by police and more widely, such as shops identifying known...
14 Mar, 2024 Data scraping: ICO’s first attempt at legal clarity By Lucie van Gils Data scraping or “web scraping” has various definitions but essentially means the process of gathering, copying or extracting information...
08 Feb, 2024 ICO to continue issuing warnings on cookie compliance By Hilal Temel Bryony Bacon Last week the ICO announced it had received an ‘overwhelmingly positive response’ to the warnings it issued last November to 53 of the...
30 Jan, 2024 Changes in Cyber Governance By Rebecca Cousin When I was a child, if you had asked me about cyber, I would have thought you were talking about the classic film of ET rather than...
22 Jan, 2024 ICO develops generative AI guidance By Rebecca Cousin Generative AI is now ever present, giving rise to new questions and challenges both on the work and home front. My kids' school were...
18 Jan, 2024 Adequacy rebooted: data flows continue after EU Commission review By Bryony Bacon On Monday, the EU Commission concluded the review of its 11 ‘historic’ adequacy decisions that pre-dated the GDPR, finding that all 11...
16 Jan, 2024 SPAM! HelloFresh fined by the ICO By Lucie van Gils On 12 January, the ICO fined HelloFresh £140,000 for breaching the marketing rules in PECR. The fine was issued in relation to “a...
14 Dec, 2023 A Christmas Data Carol: Contentious Data Past, Current and Yet to Come By Rebecca Cousin The end of the year is now firmly in sight, which is a somewhat scary prospect from a Christmas shopping perspective! That does however...
29 Jun, 2023 New guidance for employers on data subject access requests By Helena Davies The Information Commissioner’s Office (ICO) has published new guidance for employers on subject access requests (SARs). The ICO’s...
27 Jun, 2023 EDPB provides insights on GDPR fine calculations By Cindy Knott Bryony Bacon On 7 June 2023, the European Data Protection Board (EDPB) published the final version of its Guidelines on the calculation of...
22 May, 2023 Irish DPC Meta (Facebook) data transfers decision: record €1.2 billion GDPR fine and fresh SCC uncertainty for business By Bryony Bacon Today, the Irish Data Protection Commission (Irish DPC) has made public its long-awaited decision on Meta’s EU-US data transfers for its...
09 Mar, 2023 UK privacy reform progresses - Data Protection and Digital Information Bill in Parliament (again) By Bryony Bacon The new draft of the Data Protection and Digital Information (No. 2) Bill, containing the Government’s data protection reform proposals,...
17 Nov, 2022 ICO publishes new set of international data transfers guidance By Bryony Bacon Today, the ICO has published a suite of new international transfers guidance, including its long awaited final guidance on ‘transfer risk...
21 Jul, 2022 Introducing the UK’s Data Protection and Digital Information Bill By Bryony Bacon “Through this Bill we will realise the opportunities of responsible data use whilst maintaining the UK’s high data protection standards.”...
07 Feb, 2022 Getting transfers done: ICO finalises the UK’s international transfers documents By Bryony Bacon Last week, the UK’s International Data Transfer Agreement (IDTA) was laid before Parliament, along with an addendum (the EU Addendum) to...
17 Dec, 2021 Privacy implications of new COVID-19 pass checks: UK Government and ICO issue important guidance By Lucie van Gils With the Omicron variant leading to rapid increases in COVID-19 infection rates, the Government has in the last few weeks published a...