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Data Governance: Strategic Convergence, Opportunities and Risks

AI is accelerating digital transformation for companies and data governance is a key pillar in this change, enabling data strategies that unlock the potential of AI, and mitigate the risks associated with its use. Data...more

ICO issues guidance on content moderation technologies and processes

The UK Information Commissioner’s Office (ICO) issued guidance on content moderation technologies and processes for the first time (the Guidance). In its press release on 16 February 2024, the ICO flagged the need for content...more

ICO publishes a UK BCR Addendum for use with the EU Binding Corporate Rules

This blog notes some of the key features of the Addendum.  At its core, the Addendum can be used in relation to both controller BCRs and processor BCRs. Organisations then have a choice as to whether they use the Addendum in...more

UK lays regulations before Parliament to establish the UK-US data bridge

The UK-US data bridge is the UK Government’s preferred terminology to describe its decision to permit the flow of personal data from the UK to the US, achieved through the UK Extension to the EU-US Data Privacy Framework. The...more

EU-U.S. Data Privacy Framework: adequacy decision adopted, the framework becomes operational

On 10 July 2023, the European Commission adopted the adequacy decision for the EU-U.S. Data Privacy Framework (DPF). This decision enables the free flow of personal data from the EU and three EEA countries (Iceland,...more

UK – NCSC publishes guidance on shadow IT

The UK National Cyber Security Centre (NCSC) published its guidance on shadow IT on 27 July 2023. ‘Shadow IT’ are unknown assets that are used within an organisation for business purposes (including in certain cloud...more

UK NCSC revises risk management guidance

The UK National Cyber Security Centre (NCSC) revised its guidance on risk management on 26 June 2023, which was last updated in 2018....more

UK - ICO publishes neurotechnology report flagging the discrimination risks in brain-monitoring technologies

The UK Information Commissioner's Office (ICO) published a report on neurotechnology and released an accompanying statement on 8 June 2023....more

Increasing global cybersecurity regulation of private companies on the near horizon

Within the past year, a number of countries around the world, including the United States, United Kingdom, France, and The Netherlands have initiated regulatory inquiries and developed new strategies for the purpose of more...more

UK – DCMS publishes an updated Digital Strategy

On 13 June 2022, the UK’s Department of Digital, Culture, Media and Sport (DCMS) published its 2022 Digital Strategy (the Strategy)....more

UK Government publishes National Cyber Strategy for 2022

On 15 December 2021, the UK Government published its new National Cyber Strategy for 2022 based around the following five strategic pillars, representing the goals that the government intends to achieve by 2025, as first set...more

ECtHR hands down judgment finding that UK’s historic surveillance laws breached the ECHR right to privacy and freedom of...

On 25 May 2021, the Grand Chamber of the European Court of Human Rights (ECtHR) handed down its judgment in the case Big Brother Watch v United Kingdom (BBW), holding that the UK had breached the European Convention on Human...more

6/3/2021  /  Human Rights , Surveillance , UK

Data Protection Post-Brexit - What to expect and how to prepare

The UK has left the European Union (EU), the transition period is over, the UK and EU have agreed a new Trade and Cooperation Agreement (the TCA), so what now for data protection? We look at the key consequences of Brexit for...more

Brexit certainty at last? An overview of the new EU-UK trading relationship

Following months of protracted negotiations and coming four and a half years after the UK voted to leave the EU, 24 December 2020 saw the EU and UK finally agree the shape of their future relationship. While the Trade and...more

Project planning for GDPR compliance: UK pension schemes

The General Data Protection Regulation takes effect from 25 May 2018, and will require significant planning and preparation by UK pension schemes. Although many of the basic concepts set out in the GDPR will be familiar,...more

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