May 22, 2023 Irish DPC Meta (Facebook) data transfers decision: record €1.2 billion GDPR fine and fresh SCC uncertainty for business By Bryony Bacon Today, the Irish Data Protection Commission (Irish DPC) has made public its long-awaited decision on Meta’s EU-US data transfers for its...
Mar 09, 2023 UK privacy reform progresses - Data Protection and Digital Information Bill in Parliament (again) By Bryony Bacon The new draft of the Data Protection and Digital Information (No. 2) Bill, containing the Government’s data protection reform proposals,...
Nov 17, 2022 ICO publishes new set of international data transfers guidance By Bryony Bacon Today, the ICO has published a suite of new international transfers guidance, including its long awaited final guidance on ‘transfer risk...
Jul 21, 2022 Introducing the UK’s Data Protection and Digital Information Bill By Bryony Bacon “Through this Bill we will realise the opportunities of responsible data use whilst maintaining the UK’s high data protection standards.”...
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),...
Feb 07, 2022 Getting transfers done: ICO finalises the UK’s international transfers documents By Bryony Bacon Last week, the UK’s International Data Transfer Agreement (IDTA) was laid before Parliament, along with an addendum (the EU Addendum) to...
Dec 03, 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...
Sep 20, 2021 UK GDPR 2.0: DCMS launches public consultation on data protection reform By Bryony Bacon On 10 September, Oliver Dowden (then Digital Secretary) announced a public consultation on reforms to the UK’s data protection regime....