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 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,...
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...
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 Is your website cookie compliant? ICO issues warning By Hilal Temel We’ve known for some time now that cookie compliance is on the ICO’s radar. However, recent ICO action confirms that now is the time to...
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...
10 Jan, 2024 NCSC Publishes Guidelines on Secure AI System Development: a Concerted International Approach By Charles MacRae Everyone’s talking about AI at the moment (see our round-up of recent developments here and here). A consensus is building across...
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...
08 Dec, 2023 US Data & Trust Alliance announce first cross-industry standards for data provenance By Richard Barker As AI continues to dominate the headlines, one word that is consistently cropping up is “transparency” - particularly in relation to the...
20 Nov, 2023 UK signs joint statement against ransomware payments – “New norm” or status quo? By Andres Chau On 2 November 2023, the UK government announced that it and more than 40 countries had signed a Joint Statement strongly discouraging the...
25 Oct, 2023 Equifax: a new dawn for FCA enforcement? By Tabitha Harris The FCA’s recent decision to fine Equifax Limited (“Equifax”) £11,164,400 for failing to manage and monitor the security of UK consumer...
25 Oct, 2023 Clearview AI: the First-Tier Tribunal decision provides a clearer view on behavioural monitoring By Natasha Pappas The First-Tier Tribunal (FTT) has allowed the appeal of the ICO’s fining and enforcement notices against Clearview AI Inc (Clearview)....
19 Oct, 2023 Same same but different: welcome alignment in ICO draft Data Protection Fining Guidance By Ross O'Mahony On 2 October 2023, the ICO released for consultation new draft guidance on how it decides to issue penalty notices and calculate fines...
13 Oct, 2023 ICO takes enforcement action over generative AI chatbot By Natalie Donovan On 6 October the ICO issued Snap Group Limited (Snap), which operates the popular Snapchat messaging platform, with a preliminary...