Introduction The UK Information Commissioner’s Office (the ICO) yesterday fined Clearview AI Inc. (Clearview) £7,552,800 (about USD$ 9,440,115 and €8,818,724 at today’s rate) for data protection law infringements in using images of people for its AI product. Clearview collected images from the internet and from social media to create a global online database that could Read more »
Everything Compliance – Episode 100 – The Ukraine Invasion Edition
Welcome to the only roundtable podcast in compliance as we celebrate our 100 show. In 2021, Everything Compliance was honoured by W3 as a top talk show in podcasting. In this episode, we focus on changes to compliance and businesses in the wake of the Russian invasion of Ukraine and Jonathan Armstrong explores the changes Read more »
European Data Protection Board Issues Draft EU GDPR Fines Amount Calculation Guidance
Introduction The European Data Protection Board (EDPB) recently issued its draft guidance on calculating fines entitled “Guidelines 04/2022 on the calculation of administrative fines under the GDPR” This article looks at this development in brief. What’s this all about? Under EU GDPR organizations can be fined for GDPR infringements. The calculation of the amount of Read more »
European Court Rules Class-Action Data Protection Claim Can Be Brought By Consumer Organizations Without Individual Mandate To Do So
Introduction Claims before domestic courts in both the UK and EU countries for compensation for alleged data protection violations continue to be brought. In a recent ruling the European Court decided in the case of Meta Platforms Ireland Limited, formerly Facebook Ireland Limited -v- Bundesverband der Verbraucherzentralen und Verbraucherverbände – Verbraucherzentrale Bundesverband e.V (Case C-319/20) Read more »
UK Whistleblowing Update
What is this about? A recent attempt to reform the current UK whistleblowing rules appears to have stalled. This article is a brief look at where things are at with whistleblowing in the UK. What’s the current situation? Employment In a nutshell, in the UK workers are protected against retaliatory dismissal or detrimental treatment if Read more »
Life with GDPR – Data Transfers from EU/UK to the US
Jonathan Armstrong and Tom Fox return for another episode of Life with GDPR. In this episode, we take up the proposed agreement for data transfers from the EU (and UK) to the US. Some of the issues we consider in the myriad of questions around this latest version of Privacy Shield include: Is this simply Read more »
UK Government Announces Planned Reforms to UK Data Protection Regime
What’s this all about? As part of a general announcement of what it plans to legislate on in the near future, the UK government said that “[t]he United Kingdom’s data protection regime will be reformed [Data Reform Bill].” What might this mean? At this stage, given that nothing more has been said in the announcement Read more »
TechLaw10: Eric Sinrod & Jonathan Armstrong on the Effects of the War in Ukraine
In this edition of TechLaw10 Cordery’s Jonathan Armstrong talks to Professor Eric Sinrod from his home in California. They pick up on a topic from their last film and take a look at the cybersecurity aspects of Russia’s attack on Ukraine. How has the war played out so far? Who are the winners & losers? Read more »
Client Alert: Ukrainian Cyber War – Who’s Winning?
Introduction In our alert on 02 March 2022, we looked at some predictions for the effects of the war in Ukraine on cyber-security and GDPR. You can read that blog here https://www.corderycompliance.com/war-effects-on-cybersecurity/. So who is winning? And what has happened so far? Attacks on the Ukraine As we said in our earlier alert, at the Read more »
Client Alert: Ransomware – To Pay or Not to Pay?
We first published this alert in June 2021 and have updated it to take into account recent developments. Introduction A significant amount of our work at Cordery in the two or there years has been helping clients deal with ransomware attacks. It’s never a pleasant experience. We’ve set out some of our thoughts on the Read more »
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