Life with GDPR - ICO Gets Serious About Subject Access Requests
Life with GDPR - Clearview AI Fine by the ICO
Life With GDPR: Episode 50-The Experian Enforcement Notice Case
SARS and Liability Issues under GDPR
On April 14, 2025, the UK data protection regulator (the Information Commissioner’s Office (“ICO”)) fined DPP Law (“DPP”) £60,000 (approximately $80,000) following a ransomware incident. In its penalty notice, the ICO found...more
After its election to power in July 2024, the newly formed Labour government wasted little time in announcing its legislative priorities for the coming year. Unsurprisingly, these priorities included several proposed Bills...more
To help organizations stay on top of the main developments in European digital compliance, Morrison Foerster’s European Digital Regulatory Compliance team reports on some of the main topical digital regulatory and compliance...more
The regulatory landscape for UK employers has evolved significantly over the second half of 2023. New legislation is in force or is due to come into force over the next 12 months, covering a variety of employment-related...more
Welcome to your weekly update from the Allen & Overy Pensions team, covering all the latest legal and regulatory developments in the world of workplace pensions. This week we cover the following topics: HMRC Pensions Tax...more
On 18 August 2023, the UK’s Information Commissioner’s Office (“ICO”) published draft guidance on biometric recognition (the “Draft Guidance”) for public consultation. The Draft Guidance explains how data protection law...more
The Pensions Regulator (TPR) has published a blog post discussing what trustees can do to make climate scenario analysis more ‘decision-useful’. This follows recent criticism of some analysis used by trustees for their annual...more
How do GDPR, data privacy, and data protection impact your business? In this podcast, Data Privacy/Data Security expert Jonathan Armstrong, co-founder of Cordery Compliance, and I use the framework of GDPR to discuss a wide...more
In a recent letter to the UK law society, the UK Information Commissioner’s Office and the National Cyber Security Centre have provided lawyers with advice about ransomware payments...more
Jonathan Armstrong and I return for another episode of Life with GDPR. In this episode, we took up a fine in the UK by the ICO against Clearview AI and previously discussed other EU countries’ fines against Clearview. Some of...more
In response to the government’s relaxation on COVID-19 restrictions, the UK’s data protection regulator, the Information Commissioner’s Office (the ICO), has published guidance for employers on their data protection...more
Since 2018, the decision-making arsenal of the UK Information Commissioner’s Office (“ICO”) has included the Regulatory Panel, a body tasked with making independent recommendations to the Commissioner regarding proposed...more
As the September 27th deadline to implement the new Standard Contractual Clauses (“SCCs”) approaches, many privacy practitioners are working overtime to help their clients update their standard data processing addenda to...more
One in five United Kingdom ("UK") internet users are under 18, and, according to the UK's Information Commissioner Office (the "ICO"), "are using an internet that was not designed for them." Under the UK's Data Protection Act...more
Orrick's Cyber, Privacy & Data Innovation and IP Licensing & Technology Transactions groups cover the top 10 things you need to know about the new Standard Contractual Clauses ("SCCs") published today by the European...more
In this episode Jonathan Armstrong and Tom Fox are back to discuss issues relating to data privacy, data protection and GDPR. Today, we consider the Experian enforcement action. Recently, the UK Data Protection Authority, the...more
In this episode Jonathan Armstrong and Tom Fox are back to discuss issues relating to data privacy, data protection and GDPR. Today, we consider the increase in subject access requests (SARs) and other liability issues under...more
In a remarkable decision, the UK ICO has issued British Airways ("BA") with a £20m fine, in connection with a data breach affecting more than 400,000 customers. This is a significant reduction from the £183m the ICO had...more
On 16 October the UK Information Commissioner (ICO) confirmed that it had imposed a fine of £20m on British Airways (BA) for infringing the GDPR by failing to protect the personal data of approximately 400,000 of its...more
On 21 October 2020 the UK data protection authority (ICO) published a new Right of Access Detailed Guidance (SAR Guidance), following the public consultation on the SAR Draft Guidance (Draft Guidance) which ran from December...more
With all that has happened this year, most of us can’t wait until 2020 is in the rear view mirror. The end of 2020, however, marks the end of the transition period provided, post-Brexit, to allow time for UK businesses and...more
In this month's edition of our Privacy & Cybersecurity Update, we examine the National Institute of Standards and Technology's four principles of the "explainability" of artificial intelligence and the U.K. Information...more
On July 30 the UK ICO published new guidance on AI and data protection. The guidance is intended to provide organisations that are either using or developing artificial intelligence technologies, with practical...more
We expect national and international privacy regulators to take a pragmatic and reasonable approach to helping organisations navigate data protection compliance during the current COVID-19 crisis. This week, both the European...more
The United Kingdom’s Information Commissioner’s Office has provided it’s guidance on COVID-19 and data privacy. •Public health messages are not direct marketing. •It’s about being proportionate – if some data processing...more