An overhaul of the UK consumer law landscape is on the horizon, with the consumer law provisions of the Digital Markets, Competition and Consumers Act 2024 set to take effect on 6 April 2025....more
4/7/2025
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UK Competition and Markets Authority (CMA)
The updated reform legislation provides welcome guidance and clarifications on aspects such as legitimate interests and accountability, without substantially shifting the approach proposed under the existing reform bill. ...more
The Information Commissioner’s Office published draft guidance on privacy enhancing technologies that can be used to comply with privacy-by-design requirements.
On 7 September 2022, the Information Commissioner’s Office...more
Areas of interest include anonymisation, “recognised legitimate interests”, and the ICO’s role.
The UK Data Protection and Digital Information Bill (the Bill) sets out the government’s proposals for reforming the current...more
8/19/2022
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Information Commissioner's Office (ICO) ,
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UK Data Protection Act
The bill would largely build on the UK data protection regime’s EU GDPR-style framework, albeit with UK-specific provisions.
The UK government introduced the Data Protection and Digital Information Bill (the Bill) to...more
UK government sets out ambitious proposal for reforming the UK data protection landscape.
On 17 June 2022, the Department for Culture, Media and Sport (DCMS) published its response to its consultation “Data: a new...more
7/13/2022
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Data Protection ,
e-Privacy Directive ,
Electronic Communications ,
General Data Protection Regulation (GDPR) ,
International Data Transfers ,
Personal Data ,
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UK GDPR