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UK Adequacy Holds Firm Under New Data (Use and Access) Act 2025

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The DUAA introduces several reforms to UK data protection law, but their implications are relatively limited in practice. The Data (Use and Access) Act 2025 (the DUAA) was enacted on 19 June 2025 and amends rather than...more

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EU and UK Data Protection Regulatory Trends so far in 2024: a focus on consent, adtech and tracking technologies

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This series of blogs rounds up some of the key data protection regulatory trends we have seen during 2024, focused on the EU and UK. 2024 has seen behavioural advertising and cookies continue to dominate the agenda of data...more

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EU Cookie Banners: EU Cookie Banner Task Force Report Homes in on Unlawful Practices

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On 18 January 2023, the European Data Protection Board (the “EDPB”) announced the adoption of a report on the work undertaken by the Cookie Banner Task Force (the “Task Force”). The Task Force was formed in September 2021 for...more

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European Regulators Provide Some Key Clarifications on Cookie Banners

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The European Data Protection Board (EDPB) adopted a draft report of the work undertaken by the Cookie Banner Taskforce (the Report). The Report describes how regulators apply cookie legislation in handling certain types of...more

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UK Data: A New Direction – UK Government Responds to Consultation

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On 16 June 2022, the UK government’s Department for Digital, Culture, Media and Sport (“the DCMS”) published its response to its Data Reform consultation. The response sets out the UK government’s key data protection reform...more

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GDPR Privacy FAQs: What are the major differences between the Information Commissioner’s Office guidance on cookies and the CNIL’s...

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The Information Commissioner’s Office or the “ICO” is the British supervisory authority charged with enforcing GDPR. The Commission Nationale de l’informatique et des libertes (the “CNIL”) is the French supervisory authority....more

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No Consent, No Cookie! CJEU Issues Far-Reaching Decision on Cookie Consent

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In its long-awaited judgment, the European Court of Justice (CJEU) decided the data protection requirements for obtaining consent when using cookies. The court held that “passive” acceptance of cookies through prechecked...more

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The Privacist - Volume 1

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BREXIT: DEAL OR NO-DEAL? DATA IS THE QUESTION - With the Brexit deadline looming ahead on 31 October 2019, the situation seemingly reaches new levels of uncertainty every day. Last week, the U.K. Supreme Court’s eleven...more

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ECJ Issues First Cookie Decision After GDPR

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On October 1, the European Court of Justice (the “ECJ”) confirmed recent guidance from the UK and CNIL regulators in finding that the use of pre-checked boxes does not constitute consent for processing of personal information...more

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France’s CNIL Publishes New Guidance on Cookies

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The guidance provides general requirements for obtaining valid consent and details conditions under which audience management cookies may be exempt. On 4 July 2019, one day after the UK Information Commissioner’s Office...more

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Continuing GDPR Pressure for Adtech

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Data protection authorities (DPAs) in the European Union (EU) continue to scrutinize practices in the adtech sector for compliance with the EU’s General Data Protection Regulation (GDPR) and local data protection and...more

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GDPR Privacy FAQs: Do cookie banners that disclose the use of analytics or behavioral advertising cookies, and state that...

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Probably not. A data subject’s consent to the use of analytics or behavioural cookies must be a valid “affirmative act.”  While it may be argued that the data subject is indeed performing an “affirmative act” by continuing...more

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GDPR Privacy FAQs: Do European privacy laws require a cookie banner when a company uses first-party session cookies?

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Probably not. A cookie can qualify as “personal data” under GDPR when it can be linked to an individual person.  Even in instances where a cookie cannot be linked, it is still governed by the ePrivacy Directive and...more

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UK’s ICO Publishes New Guidance on Cookies

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The guidance clarifies the interplay between the PECR and GDPR and provides practical steps to achieving cookie compliance. The UK’s data protection supervisory authority, the Information Commissioner’s Office (ICO),...more

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UK Privacy Regulator Takes Aim at the AdTech Industry

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The UK Data Protection Authority, the Information Commissioner’s Office (ICO), has published an update report on privacy issues around real-time bidding (RTB) and programmatic advertising. ...more

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