On October 19, 2018, senior officials from the United States government, the European Commission (the “Commission”), and European data protection authorities met in Brussels for the second annual review of the EU-U.S. Privacy...more
The UK government has invited firms to apply for funding to carry out studies and research into how the National Healthcare Service (“NHS”) can overcome data privacy challenges, including how to comply with the requirements...more
A voluntary, self-regulatory European Code of Practice on Disinformation (the “Code”) was published on September 26, 2018. Under this Code, technology, media and advertising companies commit to implementing new measures to...more
An application for judicial review was filed in the UK High Court on 28 August 2018, seeking to have the immigration exemption in the UK’s Data Protection Act 2018 (“DPA 2018”) removed on the grounds that it is incompatible...more
On July 31, 2018, the Irish Supreme Court made the unprecedented decision to grant Facebook leave to appeal the Irish High Court’s referral of certain matters in an ongoing data privacy case to the European Court of Justice...more
On July 6, 2018, the European Union and Japan successfully concluded talks on mutual recognition of data protection regimes. The EU has reached unilateral adequacy decisions with other countries, but this is the first time...more
UK firms are taking on more staff to deal with the new EU General Data Protection Regulation (the “GDPR”). A survey carried out last year by specialist recruitment consultancy firm Robert Half found that two thirds of UK...more
On September 13, 2017, the UK Data Protection Bill (the “Bill”) was introduced in the House of Lords. The UK government announced its intention to propose new legislation to update existing UK data protection law (namely the...more