23 Apr, 2024 ICO’s Serco enforcement for biometric data use – what employers need to know By Helena Davies The Information Commissioner’s Office (ICO) has announced that Serco Leisure and associated organisations have been issued with...
18 Apr, 2024 Who’s got the power? The paradox of power-hungry data centres By Phoebe McGibbon James Cook As the world grapples with fuel shortages, increased and volatile energy prices and an urgent need to transition to renewables,...
18 Apr, 2024 "This is not a drill" - DSIT publishes Responsible AI Toolkit By Will Morris On 24 March 2024, the Department for Science, Innovation and Technology (DSIT) published its Responsible AI Toolkit (the “Toolkit”) - a...
17 Apr, 2024 CMA updates AI Foundation Model principles amid concerns about how the sector is developing By Annalisa Tosdevin Last week, the CMA published an update to its initial report on AI Foundation Models published last September. The initial report has...
16 Apr, 2024 New ICO fining guidance and an update on the ICO's enforcement approach By Alex Buchanan Richard Jeens The sheer number of cases facing potential enforcement coupled with the shifting versions of draft guidance have, in recent years, made...
04 Apr, 2024 Cyber update – what’s been happening in Q1 2024 By Natalie Donovan As Q1 2024 comes to a close, I look back at some of the key cyber developments that have been keeping us, and our clients, busy so far...
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...
20 Mar, 2024 Amazon in the firing line as UK Supreme Court tackles targeting By Richard Barker The UK Supreme Court has confirmed that Amazon infringed Lifestyle Equities’ UK and EU trade marks by offering for sale certain third...
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...
13 Mar, 2024 Are you ready for the EU AI Act? Final vote in the European Parliament passed today By Natalie Donovan The EU AI Act has passed one of its final hurdles before becoming law. While provisional political agreement on the Act was reached...
13 Mar, 2024 ICO Consultation Series on Gen AI: Second Call By Reinhardt Biermann The ICO has launched its second call for evidence as part of its consultation series on data privacy and generative AI. The ICO’s first...
08 Mar, 2024 “Pay or consent” models – a way forward? By Cindy Knott This week the ICO launched a call for views on the use of “pay or consent” models in the context of ad-funded online business models,...
07 Mar, 2024 European Commission fines Apple €1.8 billion for anti-competitive App Store rules By James Keeves The European Commission has this week imposed a €1.8 billion fine on Apple for abusing its dominant position in the market for the...
26 Feb, 2024 A “missed economic opportunity”: the European Commission publishes its Digital Infrastructure White Paper By Phoebe McGibbon James Cook On 21st February, the European Commission (EC) published a White Paper titled “How to master Europe’s digital infrastructure needs?”. ...
21 Feb, 2024 Cautionary tales for privacy compliance from Hong Kong’s Privacy Commissioner By Lewis Mack Wynne Mok Jason Cheng At the end of 2023 Hong Kong’s Office of the Privacy Commissioner for Personal Data (PCPD) published two investigation reports with...
20 Feb, 2024 DSA now fully in force By Catherine O'Callaghan As of 17 February 2024, the EU’s Digital Services Act (“DSA”) is now fully in force for all in-scope intermediary service providers. For...