Feb 14, 2023 How would you like to pay? Moving towards the digital pound By Emily Bradley In a significant step, the Bank of England and HM Treasury have declared that it is "likely" that a digital pound—the catchy moniker for...
Feb 14, 2023 Faces and breaches: ICO doubles down on tailored approach to UK data enforcement By Alex Buchanan In the first few weeks of 2023, the ICO has continued to espouse its commitment to exercising its full spectrum of enforcement powers....
Feb 13, 2023 UK and US Governments crack down on ransomware criminals By Natalie Donovan Handling ransom demands (and whether it possible and/or desirable to pay) is one of the most critical aspects of managing a cyber attack....
Feb 03, 2023 Are the Floodgates Opening? The Future of Large Datasets in AI By Matthew Harman The use of large third-party datasets in the development of AI models has been a contentious issue for some time now. In the latest...
Jan 26, 2023 ICO tech report highlights privacy challenges for four key technologies By Natalie Donovan The ICO is encouraging developers to consider privacy at an early stage when implementing new technologies and, in its first annual...
Jan 20, 2023 Accountability and technology: imagining the future of the SM&CR By Emily Bradley The Senior Managers and Certification Regime or 'SM&CR', a regulatory lever which seeks to foster greater individual accountability...
Nov 24, 2022 ICO warns immature biometric technologies could discriminate, and organisations may be investigated By Natalie Donovan The ICO has warned organisations to carefully assess the risks if considering using emotion analysis technologies as they will be...
Nov 18, 2022 The ICO publishes tips on how to improve your use of AI By Natalie Donovan The ICO has published new AI guidance, setting out its top tips on how to use AI and personal data appropriately and lawfully. It can...
Oct 24, 2022 Managing cyber risks: key lessons from the Interserve decision By Ross O'Mahony This morning, the Information Commissioner’s Office (ICO) announced that it had fined Interserve Group Limited (Interserve) £4,400,000...
Oct 19, 2022 Hardly an Easylife: Key lessons from the ICO’s latest GDPR enforcement action By Alex Buchanan In early October 2022, UK catalogue retailer Easylife was issued separate financial penalties by the ICO under the PECR (£130,000) and...
Oct 18, 2022 The ICO’s new approach to DSAR enforcement: naming and shaming By Hilal Temel On 28 September, the ICO announced it had issued reprimands to seven organisations for repeatedly failing to respond to data subject...
Oct 14, 2022 One step closer to mutual adequacy for EU-US and UK-US data flows By Cindy Knott On Friday 7 October, US president Biden signed an Executive Order which, alongside the regulations issued by the Attorney General,...
Jul 12, 2022 Has the ICO just told lawyers not to advise clients to pay ransoms? By Natalie Donovan Ransomware attacks are on the rise, and more organisations have been paying the ransoms in recent months. In light of this, the ICO and...
Jun 24, 2022 What we can expect in the Data Reform Bill: UK Government publishes consultation response on UK data protection law reform By Bryony Bacon The UK government has published its response to the 2021 Data: a new direction consultation (which we discussed in our September blog),...
May 26, 2022 Clearview lacking: ICO announces £7.5m fine for tech firm but questions remain By Natasha Pappas The ICO made headlines this week when it announced its third largest GDPR-era fine to date, over £7.55m, against the controversial...
Apr 28, 2022 Royal Mail and Reed Online pay the price for unsolicited direct marketing emails By Heather Broadbent The two latest fines issued by the ICO to Royal Mail and Reed Online for breaches of the direct marketing rules contained in PECR reflect...