Recently, there has been an increase in individual rights activity across Europe, particularly organizations receiving Data Subject Access Requests (DSARs) from former employees. ...more
In politically uncertain times, is your organisation’s data transfer compliance unquestionable?
The EU-U.S. Data Privacy Framework (DPF) serves as a useful mechanism for transatlantic data transfers, and it can assist...more
4/4/2025
/ Biden Administration ,
Court of Justice of the European Union (CJEU) ,
Data Privacy ,
Data Transfers ,
EU ,
European Commission ,
Federal Trade Commission (FTC) ,
General Data Protection Regulation (GDPR) ,
International Data Transfers ,
Regulatory Requirements ,
Risk Management ,
Standard Contractual Clauses ,
Trump Administration ,
UK
The new Labour government has set out its plans for reforming the labour market in its Employment Rights Bill just within the first one hundred days in office. This volume of change was initially set out in the Labour...more
10/11/2024
/ Administrative Agencies ,
Contract Terms ,
Employee Rights ,
Employment Contract ,
Flexible Work Arrangements ,
Gig Economy ,
Paid Leave ,
Proposed Legislation ,
Redundancy Dismissals ,
UK ,
UK Parliament ,
Unfair Dismissal ,
Wage and Hour
Effective information security is no longer just dependent on an organisation’s own internal cybersecurity controls. The UK Information Commissioner’s Office (ICO) highlights that third-party service providers are processing...more
9/26/2024
/ Cybersecurity ,
Data Privacy ,
Data Protection Authority ,
Digital Services ,
Due Diligence ,
Hardware ,
Information Commissioner's Office (ICO) ,
Information Technology ,
Risk Assessment ,
Security and Privacy Controls ,
Software ,
Supply Chain ,
Third-Party Service Provider ,
UK
Organisations that make international transfers of personal data have undergone significant challenges and changes over the last few years. With the invalidation of the Privacy Shield agreement in 2020 and the introduction of...more
9/26/2024
/ Compliance ,
Consent ,
Corporate Fines ,
Data Breach ,
EU ,
EU-US Privacy Shield ,
Extraterritoriality Rules ,
General Data Protection Regulation (GDPR) ,
International Data Transfers ,
Personal Data ,
Regulatory Oversight ,
Schrems I & Schrems II ,
Standard Contractual Clauses ,
Third-Party Service Provider ,
UK
The United Kingdom’s Online Safety Bill has recently received royal assent and become law as the Online Safety Act (OSA)....more
Amid concerns surrounding the rapid rise in COVID-19 omicron cases, the UK government recently implemented Plan B measures in England. Here is a summary of the implications of these measures for employers...more
1/3/2022
/ Certification Requirements ,
Coronavirus/COVID-19 ,
Corporate Counsel ,
Emergency Management Plans ,
Masks ,
New Legislation ,
Public Health Emergency ,
Quarantine ,
Remote Working ,
Shelter-In-Place ,
UK ,
Virus Testing ,
Workplace Safety
The Information Commissioner’s Office (ICO) recently released its response to the UK government consultation, ‘Data: A new direction’. The consultation was conducted by the Department for Digital, Culture, Media and Sport...more
12/23/2021
/ Adequacy Requirement ,
Binding Corporate Rules ,
Consultation ,
Data Privacy ,
Data Protection ,
Data Protection Impact Assessments (DPIAs) ,
Data Subject Access Requests ,
Electronic Communications ,
EU ,
Information Commissioner's Office (ICO) ,
International Data Transfers ,
Personal Data ,
Risk-Based Approaches ,
Standard Contractual Clauses ,
UK
After the political and constitutional upheaval of the last four years that has been Brexit, a trade deal - the EU-UK Trade and Cooperation Agreement - was finally reached between the United Kingdom (UK) and the European...more
1/27/2021
/ Data Privacy ,
EU ,
European Economic Area (EEA) ,
Grace Period ,
Information Commissioner's Office (ICO) ,
International Data Transfers ,
Member State ,
Privacy Laws ,
Trade Agreements ,
UK ,
UK Brexit
In a judgment that many commentators are calling the most significant in employment law in over 50 years, on July 25, 2017, the United Kingdom’s Supreme Court decided that the system whereby employees must pay fees to bring...more
How do you sum up what just happened in the United Kingdom’s parliamentary election? I thought the journalist Hugo Rifkind did it rather well last Saturday on BBC Radio 4’s The News Quiz, a show that takes a satirical and...more
Just four days after the Brexit vote the FTSE 100 has recovered much of the ground it lost and the strength of the pound against the dollar has recovered a little from a 31-year low. Why? And what do we say to US businesses...more
On June 24, 2016, the European Commission announced that it had reached a final agreement with the United States on the terms of the EU-U.S. Privacy Shield, which will permit U.S. companies to transfer the personal data of...more
6/28/2016
/ Corporate Counsel ,
Data Retention ,
EU ,
EU-US Privacy Shield ,
European Commission ,
International Data Transfers ,
Ombudsman ,
Personal Data ,
Popular ,
Surveillance ,
UK ,
UK Brexit ,
Young Lawyers
The people of the United Kingdom have spoken on the issue of whether the United Kingdom should leave or remain in the European Union (EU), and by a narrow margin have decided to leave. In fact, by region, the voters of...more
6/24/2016
/ Currency Fluctuation ,
EU ,
EU-US Privacy Shield ,
Financial Markets ,
Foreign Subsidiaries ,
General Data Protection Regulation (GDPR) ,
International Finance ,
International Labor Laws ,
London Stock Exchange ,
Member State ,
Popular ,
Referendums ,
Treaty on the Functioning of the European Union (TFEU) ,
UK ,
UK Brexit