17 Dec, 2021 Privacy implications of new COVID-19 pass checks: UK Government and ICO issue important guidance By Slaughter and May With the Omicron variant leading to rapid increases in COVID-19 infection rates, the Government has in the last few weeks published a...
16 Dec, 2021 New UK Cyber Strategy promotes ‘whole-of-society’ approach By Natalie Donovan We’d been promised the UK’s new National Cyber Strategy in Q4 2021 and yesterday (15th December), just before the Christmas break, it...
16 Dec, 2021 Key data privacy developments in 2021 and what to expect in 2022 By Cindy Knott As another eventful year closes, data privacy developments have continued apace and there is more to expect to in 2022. In the UK for...
13 Dec, 2021 Cyber Essentials update for 2022 By Natalie Donovan On 24 January 2022, the National Cyber Security Centre (NCSC) will introduce the biggest update to Cyber Essentials’ technical controls...
09 Dec, 2021 New AI assurance roadmap published – is this the route to safe AI? By Natalie Donovan The UK government’s expert body for AI (the Centre for Data Ethics and Innovation or CDEI) has published “the world’s first roadmap to...
07 Dec, 2021 UK Law Commission confirms flexibility of the common law to accommodate smart legal contracts By Slaughter and May Last week, the UK Law Commission (the "Commission") published its much anticipated advice to the Government on the application of the...
06 Dec, 2021 A groundbreaking change for the internet of things? By Slaughter and May The UK Government has published new “groundbreaking” rules to protect our smart devices from an increased cyber threat, including large...
03 Dec, 2021 A tale of two fines…lessons from the ICO actions against the Cabinet Office and Clearview AI By Bryony Bacon Uh oh. That field was supposed to be deleted, not just hidden…. It is a very easy mistake to make particularly when a number of people...