What happened? In an attempt to address ongoing regulatory uncertainty about how the UK General Data Protection Regulation (UK GDPR) and UK Data Protection Act 2018 apply to the development and use of generative artificial...more
Introduction The UK’s Online Safety Act (OSA) imposes extensive obligations on certain types of online service providers to protect users from illegal and harmful content. A key focus of the OSA is the protection of children...more
After being laid before the UK parliament in February, the UK’s new data transfer tools (“New UK Transfer Tools”) are now in force and ready for use....more
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Standard contractual clauses are one of the key tools relied upon by organizations that transfer personal data to recipients in ‘inadequate’ countries under the UK and/or the EU General Data Protection...more
Post-Brexit, the UK is no longer a member state of the European Union, meaning that the data protection regime that applies to UK-related processing is separate from – but currently remains similar to – that which applies to...more
On July 16, 2020, the Court of Justice of the European Union issued a decision that uprooted long-standing legal frameworks on which thousands of US and EU companies have relied to transfer personal data from the EU to the...more