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...
18 Jan, 2024 Adequacy rebooted: data flows continue after EU Commission review By Bryony Bacon On Monday, the EU Commission concluded the review of its 11 ‘historic’ adequacy decisions that pre-dated the GDPR, finding that all 11...
22 Sep, 2023 US adequacy by another name: UK-US data bridge process concludes By Bryony Bacon Cindy Knott Yesterday the UK Government announced its decision to establish a UK-US data bridge, a 'partial adequacy decision' in old terminology,...
12 Jul, 2023 EU-US Data Privacy Framework adequacy decision adopted by European Commission: a solution for EU-US transfers (for now at least) By Cindy Knott Bryony Bacon On 10 July, the European Commission announced the adoption of their adequacy decision for the EU-US Data Privacy Framework (the DPF),...
27 Jun, 2023 EDPB provides insights on GDPR fine calculations By Cindy Knott Bryony Bacon On 7 June 2023, the European Data Protection Board (EDPB) published the final version of its Guidelines on the calculation of...
22 May, 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...
09 Mar, 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,...
17 Nov, 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...