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UK Pensions: DC trustee agenda update — June 2025

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Welcome to our monthly update on current legal issues for trustees of DC pension schemes, designed to help you stay up to date with key developments between trustee meetings and to support the legal update item on your next...more

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Navigating the FemTech Regulatory Landscape: Best Practice & Future Developments

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The stakes are high for FemTech – as Benjamin Franklin noted: ‘it takes many good deeds to build a good reputation and only one bad one to lose it.’...more

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New UK Guidance on Workplace Monitoring

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On 3 October 2023, the UK’s Information Commissioner’s Office (ICO) published new guidance on workplace monitoring. The previous guidance was issued in 2011, as part of the ICO’s Employment Practices Code, and was badly in...more

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Getting to Know Who: ICO Draft Guidance on Biometric Recognition

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On 18 August 2023, the UK’s Information Commissioner’s Office (“ICO”) published draft guidance on biometric recognition (the “Draft Guidance”) for public consultation. The Draft Guidance explains how data protection law...more

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California’s Landmark Age-Appropriate Design Code Act: What You Need to Know

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​​​​​​​On Aug. 29, California’s Senate unanimously passed Assembly Bill 2273, known as the Age-Appropriate Design Code Act (the CA AADC or the Bill). The Bill, which is anticipated to be signed into law by Gov. Gavin Newsom,...more

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UK’s Data Protection Reform Proposals Show Distinct Divergence from EU Rules

The UK government has recently published proposals to amend UK data protection legislation with moves towards divergence from EU rules and regulation following the UK’s decision to leave the EU (“Brexit”). The Data Protection...more

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UK Government’s Consultation on Data Protection and Privacy: Information Commissioner’s Office Issues Response

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

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Shape Up Or Ship Out: UK Information Commissioner’s Office Issues New Opinion Regarding Adtech Initiatives

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What does the U.K. Information Commissioner’s Office have to say about what it takes for adtech initiatives to be compliant with data protection? “There is an opportunity for market participants to move towards developing...more

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10 key proposals from the UK government’s consultation on reforming data protection law

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On 10 September 2021, the UK Government’s Department for Digital, Culture, Media and Sport (DCMS) published its long-awaited proposals for reform of the country’s data protection laws. The consultation paper includes a...more

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UK ICO Publishes New Data Sharing Code

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On December 17, 2020, the UK Information Commissioner’s Office (‘ICO’) published its Data Sharing Code of Practice (the ‘Code’) following a public consultation which commenced in 2019. The Code focuses mainly on data sharing...more

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Privacy & Cybersecurity Update - August 2020

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

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COVID-19 and Data Protection Compliance

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Following the outbreak of COVID-19 and its development into a global pandemic, organisations have been implementing exceptional measures to safeguard employees, customers and others against the health threat that is being...more

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GDPR Guide to National Implementation: United Kingdom - A practical guide to national GDPR compliance requirements across the EEA

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Q1/ Applicable legislation - (a) Have the requirements of the GDPR been addressed by introducing a new law, or by updating existing legislation? New legislation has been passed. Brexit Note: The GDPR will apply in...more

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UK ICO Provides Guidance On Processing Sensitive Information

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The United Kingdom's Information Commissioner's Office has updated its guidance on Special Category Data (Article 9 General Data Protection Regulation). Key takeaways: Genetic Data- Genetic analysis that includes enough...more

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UK Data Protection Agency Issues New Guidelines for Data Sharing

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The United Kingdom’s Information Commissioners Office (ICO) has issued, for public consultation, draft guidelines for data sharing that—once adopted —will govern all controller-to-controller data sharing agreements which are...more

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UK Privacy Regulator Takes Aim at the AdTech Industry

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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UK ICO Issues Guidance On Data Protection Impact Assessments

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A Data Protection Impact Assessment (DPIA) is a process, required by the EU General Data Protection Regulation (GDPR), to help identify and minimize the data protection risks of a project....more

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GDPR Compliance Update: Which Government Authorities Have Issued Official GDPR Guidance?

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This post provides an update as to the current status of official GDPR-related guidance. With a little under a year remaining until the European Union’s General Data Protection Regulation (GDPR) becomes enforceable, companies...more

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