What is this all about? Under EU data protection rules, personal data is protected as regards information relating to an identified or identifiable natural person. In a recent important ruling the European Court of Justice (“the European Court”) has extended the concept of what constitutes personal data to include dynamic IP addresses. What is the Read more »
Interview with Max Schrems
What is this about? Last Friday 21 October at the New York State Bar International Section seasonal meeting held in Paris, Jonathan Armstrong from Cordery interviewed the high-profile privacy advocate and litigant Max Schrems. It will be recalled that Max brought the case that ended up before the European Court of Justice that brought down Read more »
Subject Access Requests and Disclosure in the context of litigation – recent case update
What is this about? The UK’s Data Protection Act 1998 (DPA) allows for individuals to make so-called “Subject Access Request” (SAR) where they can seek to obtain copies of the personal data held about them by organisations and certain other related information about how that data is stored and processed. It is notable that in Read more »
UK Financial Conduct Authority takes action on third party risk
Introduction The UK Financial Conduct Authority (FCA) announced the result of its investigation into the use of third parties in the insurance industry at the end of July which has wider indications as to how regulators see third party risk. This work was set out as one of the FCA’s key priorities in their 2015/16 Read more »
UK Serious Fraud Office Annual Report shows continued modest progress
Introduction David Green CB QC, the Director of the Serious Fraud Office (“the SFO”) recently published his annual report (2015-2016), which can be found here: https://www.sfo.gov.uk/download/annual-report-2015-2016/ The SFO acts as an independent governmental authority tasked with investigating and prosecuting the most serious or complex fraud and domestic and overseas corruption under the UK Bribery Act Read more »
EU Cyber Security Rules Adopted
Introduction In an attempt to counter an ever-growing global menace, new EU cyber security rules have been finalized and published. They aim to address cyber security challenges at an EU-wide level – the new rules can be found here. The new EU rules are in the form of a Directive called the “NIS Directive” (in Read more »
French Data Protection Regulator fines BrandAlley
Last month the French data protection regulator, CNIL announced that it had imposed a €30,000 penalty on the fashion, beauty and home retailer, BrandAlley. BrandAlley is reportedly in the top 15 e-commerce sites in France with a claimed catalogue of more than 60,000 items. It also has a presence in other countries including Germany, Italy, Read more »
WP29 Statement on Privacy Shield
The Article 29 Working Party has today issued a statement on the EU-US Privacy Shield adopted by the European Commission on 12th July 2016. The Privacy Shield scheme is due to go live on 1 August 2016. We have used some technical terms in this note which are explained in our glossary here http://www.corderycompliance.com/eu-data-protection-regulation-glossary/ WP29’s Read more »
New Information Commissioner assumes Office
As we reported back in March the UK is going to have a new Information Commissioner, Elizabeth Denham, who takes over on Monday. We talked in March about her background and the perception of her work in Canada. You can see that alert here – http://www.corderycompliance.com/changes-at-the-top-for-the-uk-data-protection-regulator/. Likely agenda What is the likely agenda of Ms Read more »
Privacy Shield now launched: video update
The Privacy Shield scheme was proposed in February 2016 to replace the Safe Harbor scheme. The European Commission has now concluded more than six months of negotiations within the EU institutions and the US on the Privacy Shield scheme to transfer data from the EU to the US. In this video Cordery lawyers Jonathan Armstrong and André Bywater Read more »
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