24 Jul, 2024 How should privacy teams be managing AI? By Cindy Knott Bryony Bacon Not a week goes by without AI making the headline news, one of the latest items being the landmark EU AI Act entering into force on 1...
19 Jul, 2024 UK data reforms (including for Smart Data) are resurrected: what do we know so far? By Cindy Knott Bryony Bacon The UK government has set out the details of its proposed legislative program in the King’s Speech this week. This includes proposals for...
27 Jun, 2024 Insights from the ICO’s Snap decision on genAI enforcement By Bryony Bacon Last month, the ICO announced that it would not take enforcement action against Snap for its ChatGPT powered “MyAI” chat-bot - despite...
22 Jun, 2024 Are you ready for new data sharing rules? By Hilal Temel Boosting access to data, data sharing and the data economy has become an increasingly important policy objective for the UK government...
14 Jun, 2024 The generation game: New EU guidelines published on generative AI and data protection By Alex Buchanan Bryony Bacon On 3 June, the European Data Protection Supervisor (EDPS) published guidelines on navigating the relationship between generative AI...
20 May, 2024 Smarter regulation? Data privacy impact of the Government’s deregulation agenda By Rebecca Cousin On 16 May 2024, the UK Government released a White Paper on “Smarter Regulation: Delivering a regulatory environment for innovation,...
18 May, 2024 ICO looks at individuals’ rights in GenAI By Cindy Knott The fourth chapter of the ICO’s s series consulting on GenAI focusses on individuals’ rights and how to engineer these into GenAI models....
08 May, 2024 ICO and Ofcom set out collaboration on supervision of online services By Rebecca Cousin The ICO and Ofcom have published a joint statement on how they will collaborate to implement the vision they set out in their 2022...
07 May, 2024 Am I hallucinating? ICO consults on accuracy in GenAI By Rebecca Cousin The ICO has published the latest chapter in its series consulting on GenAI, this one focussing on accuracy. As we know, accuracy is a key...
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...
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 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,...
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...