On May 14, 2025, the European Data Protection Board ("EDPB") issued a favorable opinion on granting a six-month extension to the existing adequacy decisions for the UK, following a formal proposal from the European...more
6/9/2025
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Data Protection ,
Data Transfers ,
EU ,
European Commission ,
European Data Protection Board (EDPB) ,
General Data Protection Regulation (GDPR) ,
International Data Transfers ,
Proposed Legislation ,
UK ,
UK GDPR
The second half of 2024 saw a myriad of Artificial Intelligence (AI) related legal and regulatory developments for the EU and UK, critically with the EU AI Act coming into force on 1 August 2024. This has been followed by...more
1/15/2025
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Copyright ,
Copyright Designs and Patents Act ,
Data Privacy ,
Data Protection ,
EU ,
European Data Protection Board (EDPB) ,
General Data Protection Regulation (GDPR) ,
Intellectual Property Protection ,
Machine Learning ,
New Legislation ,
NIST ,
Popular ,
Regulatory Requirements ,
Risk Mitigation ,
Transparency ,
UK
On October 23, the UK Government’s House of Lords had its first reading of a new proposed data protection bill, the Data (Use and Access) Bill (“DUA Bill”), as sponsored by the Department of Science, Innovation, and...more
The Dubai International Financial Centre (the DIFC), a financial free zone in the United Arab Emirates (the UAE), is the leading financial hub for the Middle East, Africa and South Asia. It has implemented the new enhanced...more
9/17/2020
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Asia ,
California ,
California Consumer Privacy Act (CCPA) ,
Data Breach ,
Data Protection ,
Dubai ,
EU ,
General Data Protection Regulation (GDPR) ,
Middle East ,
Personal Information ,
Standard Contractual Clauses ,
United Arab Emirates (UAE)
GDPR, the key piece of European privacy law, sets out strict controls on the transfer of personal data from the EU to non-EU jurisdictions and makes it unlawful to transfer personal data from the EU to a non-EU based...more
The Dubai International Financial Centre (the DIFC), a financial free zone in the United Arab Emirates (the UAE), has become the leading financial hub for the Middle East, Africa and South Asia. The DIFC is located in Dubai...more
The unprecedented global spread of coronavirus, or COVID-19, has taken a major toll on governments and businesses in both trying to protect people and contain the outbreak. The human impact has also seen, tragically,...more
The unprecedented spread of the COVID-19, or coronavirus, outbreak around the world has resulted in many organisations in the UK facing continued challenges, raising several key business and legal considerations. One of the...more
The European Data Protection Board (“EDPB”), established under the General Data Protection Regulation (“GDPR”), said in a statement that the use of so-called “cookie walls” should be prohibited under the proposed EU e-Privacy...more
The EU General Data Protection Regulation (“GDPR”) came into force on May 25, 2018. With so much recent focus on preparing for and meeting this deadline, there is no doubt that companies will have breathed a sigh of relief to...more
The United Kingdom’s Information Commissioner’s Office (“ICO”) has published its international strategy for 2017-2021, which sets out the UK’s strategy for its relationship with the European Union on data privacy matters...more
A report by professional services firm PwC, using figures from the UK’s Information Commissioner’s Office (“ICO”), confirmed that the number of fines handed out for breaking UK data protection laws almost doubled last year,...more
On 15 March 2017, Steve Wood, the Head of International Strategy & Intelligence for the Information Commissioner’s Office (“ICO”) (the UK’s data protection authority), confirmed during a keynote speech at the International...more
As many of you will have read in the international press, the British public has voted at an historic referendum to leave the European Union. There are wide-ranging implications for many areas of law, the economy and...more