Jonathan Armstrong will chair a panel discussion at the upcoming ECEI conference in Amsterdam in March. The panel discussion title is: Crisis Management: Practical Tips for the Compliance Professional When it Goes Wrong Companies face more crises than ever before – in part due to increased public appetite for bad news, increased powers for regulators and Read more »
Client Alert: PC World owner fined after data breach
Today the UK Data Protection Authority, the Information Commissioner’s Office (ICO), announced that it had fined DSG Retail Ltd, the owner of a number of well-known retailers including PC World, £500,000 after a data breach. It is important to remember that this is a fine under the Data Protection Act 1998 (DPA 1998) the previous Read more »
Blog: Is the BA Fine in the Departure Lounge?
Last week we talked about the UK’s first fine under GDPR. You can read our alert on that here https://www.corderycompliance.com/first-uk-gdpr-fine/. We mentioned in that alert that the two big Notices of Intent against BA and Marriott were not fines just yet and that the Information Commissioner’s Office (ICO) had extended its time to deal with Read more »
Client Alert: First UK GDPR fine
In late December the UK Data Protection Authority, the Information Commissioner’s Office (ICO), announced its first fine under GDPR. The fine was at the lower end of the scale after Doorstep Dispensaree Ltd., a company running a pharmacy based in Edgware in London, was fined £275,000. The ICO also issued an Enforcement Notice against the Read more »
Everything Compliance – Episode 56 – The Compliance Year under the Trump Administration – Part 2
Welcome to the only roundtable podcast in compliance. In this episode, we end the year with the second of a two-part series on our fan favourite year-end wrap up on the state of compliance under the Trump Administration. Tom and the panel have been following this topic since Trump was elected in 2016 and it is Read more »
Client Alert: German Telecom Provider 1&1 Telecom receives €9.55m Fine for GDPR Breach
In what is one of the largest GDPR fines to date the German Federal Data Protection Authority (BfDI) has fined the telecommunications service provider 1&1 Telecom GmbH €9.55m. What was this about? Under GDPR organisations are obliged to put in place adequate technical and organisational measures (TOMs) to prevent unauthorised access to personal data. In Read more »
Client Alert: European Court of Justice Cookies Consent Ruling
Introduction In October 2019 the European Court of Justice rejected pre-ticked boxes as a valid means of consent for cookies. Instead, under the EU E-privacy rules and GDPR, an individual must clearly affirm, by appropriate means, that they consent to cookies, such as ticking/checking an unticked/unchecked box. What’s the case about? In the case of Read more »
Client Alert: European Court of Human Rights Spanish Supermarket Surveillance Privacy Ruling
Introduction In October 2019 the Grand Chamber of the European Court of Human Rights (ECHR) ruled that employees’ privacy rights had not been infringed in what has been a somewhat controversial case about the covert video surveillance of Spanish supermarket employees (who were caught stealing on film); we previously wrote about the earlier judgement in Read more »
Episode 259: Risks of Collaboration and Deep Pocket Litigation in AI and Cutting-Edge Tech
In this episode of TechLaw10 Jonathan and Eric discuss the topic suggested by a regular listener. They talk about how companies are increasingly collaborating with others to bring products and services to market – especially in areas like machine learning, AI and facial recognition. Can this collaborative approach combined with the ‘Deep Pocket’ nature of Read more »
Riga Graduate School of Law – Public lecture on GDPR by André Bywater – 11 November 2019
Next Monday 11 November (at 4:00pm local time) André Bywater of Cordery is giving a presentation entitled “Navigating GDPR pain points – handling data breaches (including via technology) and other challenges in the real world of data protection” at the Riga Graduate School of Law, Latvia as part of the school’s public lecture series You Read more »
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