Investigations

Life With GDPR: Episode 53-The KBR Document Production Decision

February 25, 2021

In this episode Jonathan Armstrong and Tom Fox are back to discuss issues relating to data privacy, data protection and GDPR. Today, they take a look at the recent UK Supreme Court decision in the KBR document production case. KBR succeeded in its UK Supreme Court battle with the Serious Fraud Office (SFO). The case Read more »

Client Alert: KBR succeeds in SFO Litigation over Documents

February 5, 2021

Introduction The US headquartered engineering Company KBR, Inc (KBR) today succeeded in its UK Supreme Court battle with the Serious Fraud Office (SFO). The case is interesting both in connection with the seizure of documents in SFO investigations and the sometimes criticised s.2 notice procedure. The Supreme Court has decided that the use of the Read more »

Client Alert: COVID-19 and Corruption FAQs

January 15, 2021

Introduction We first published this note on 12 May 2020 and have updated it to take into account more recent developments. The current pandemic affects all aspects of the compliance world. In previous alerts we have looked at the effects of the pandemic on data protection (see http://bit.ly/gdprvirus) and modern slavery (https://bit.ly/corderyms19). But what are Read more »

Client Alert: German CCTV fine of €10.4 million for notebooksbilliger

January 8, 2021

Date: 8 January 2021 Introduction In the first big GDPR fine of 2021 today The State Commissioner for Data Protection for Lower Saxony (LfD) imposed a fine of €10.4 million on notebooksbilliger.de AG, a vendor of laptops and computer equipment. The company had used video surveillance for around 2 years to monitor its employees. The Read more »

Life With GDPR: Episode 51 – Reduction to GDPR Fines by EU Courts

December 18, 2020

In this episode Jonathan Armstrong and Tom Fox are back to discuss issues relating to data privacy, data protection and GDPR. They consider EU courts reducing fines and penalties assessed by data protection regulators. This reminds us that, as we said before, data protection authorities are likely to face challenges to high fines in the Read more »

Client Alert: Irish DPC Fines Twitter €450k

December 17, 2020

We first published this note on 15 December 2020 and we have updated it to reflect Twitter’s reaction Introduction On 15 December 2020, the Irish Data Protection Commission (DPC) announced that it had concluded its investigation under GDPR into Twitter. The investigation started in January 2019 following a data breach notification from Twitter. The DPC Read more »