Mar 14, 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...
Jan 16, 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...
Dec 17, 2021 Privacy implications of new COVID-19 pass checks: UK Government and ICO issue important guidance By Lucie van Gils With the Omicron variant leading to rapid increases in COVID-19 infection rates, the Government has in the last few weeks published a...
Jul 30, 2021 Time’s tikking for privacy notices aimed at children: TikTok fined in the Netherlands and the ICO’s Children’s Code nears the end of its grace period By Lucie van Gils Transparency is arguably one of the most important principles of the GDPR. Without it, data subjects are unaware of how their personal...
Jul 27, 2021 Small issue, big consequences; increased regulatory focus on the GDPR representative requirement By Lucie van Gils Those of us working in data privacy compliance have had a busy few years; we have been particularly occupied with the many 'big ticket'...
Feb 18, 2021 Data privacy and M&A: the issues you really can’t ignore By Lucie van Gils We recently hosted a webinar as part of PL&B’s 33rd Annual International Conference on data privacy and M&A. During the session, we...
Nov 13, 2020 ICO audit of political campaigning: a case for transparency that goes beyond Westminster By Lucie van Gils Against the backdrop of the US elections, which has the current President of the United States campaigning for funds to challenge the...
Oct 01, 2020 US responds to Schrems II judgment By Lucie van Gils As many will know, the Schrems II decision has caused quite a stir in the data privacy community, most immediately because of its...