A minor but interesting recent UK High Court data protection judgment has highlighted the issue of the remedy of ceasing data processing in the matter of AL-KO Kober Ltd & Mr. Paul Jones -v- Balvinder Sambhi T/AS Torquebars, which can be found here: http://www.5rb.com/wp-content/uploads/2017/10/Al-KO-Kober-Ltd-Anor-v-Balvinder-Sambhi-2017-EWHC-2474-QB.pdf. The very basic facts of the case were as follows: The Read more »
Client Alert: Morrisons Data Breach Litigation Succeeds
On Friday judgement was handed down in one of the biggest pieces of data protection litigation in the UK so far – Various Claimants v. WM Morrisons Supermarket plc. The case established that employees of WM Morrisons Supermarket plc (a retail chain usually known as Morrisons) could succeed in getting financial compensation after a data Read more »
Client Alert: Cordery Breakfast Briefing with Tom Fox
Yesterday one of the US’s leading compliance experts, Tom Fox, joined us in London to discuss the hot compliance issues of the day with some of our clients and friends over breakfast. We took some of the themes we discussed in that roundtable and made three short films. Paradise Papers In the first of these Read more »
UK Modern Slavery guidance updated
The UK government recently updated its guidance on modern slavery entitled “Transparency in Supply Chains etc. A Practical Guide”, which can be found here: https://www.gov.uk/government/publications/transparency-in-supply-chains-a-practical-guide. Under the UK Modern Slavery Act 2015 compliance disclosure requirements an organization with UK £36 million turnover that sells goods or services in the UK is required to annually publish Read more »
Client Alert: Hilton Settles US data breach action
Yesterday the New York Attorney-General Eric T. Schneiderman announced a $700,000 settlement with Hilton hotels after two data breaches in 2015 exposed over 350,000 credit card numbers in two separate breaches. Whilst in the US there are no general data protection laws equivalent to those in Europe the investigation was based on Hilton’s failure to Read more »
Everything Compliance – Episode 10 – The first 100 days of the Trump administration – Part 1
Jonathan Armstrong joins Tom Fox in the latest episode of Everything Compliance. The panel also includes Jay Rosen, Matt Kelly and Mike Volkov. This episode is the first of a two-part series of podcasts dedicated to the first 100 days of the Trump administration as it related to compliance. Jonathan leads a discussion of Read more »
Client Alert: European Parliament agrees EU conflicts minerals compliance legislation
EU Conflicts Minerals Update The European Parliament recently approved draft EU legislation concerning conflict minerals, which will impose compliance supply-chain due diligence requirements. We previously reported on this issue in 2016 here and in more detail in 2015 here. The draft legislation consists of a framework for an EU Regulation to stop profits from trading Read more »
EU proposal to ban geo-blocking
Introduction The EU recently proposed a Regulation (http://eur-lex.europa.eu/legal-content/EN/TXT/?uri=COM:2016:0289:FIN) which, amongst other things, aims at removing so-called “geo-blocking” for online shopping. This article examines the main features of the proposed Regulation. According to the Commission’s press release about a package of proposed new e-commerce consumer protection measures (http://europa.eu/rapid/press-release_IP-16-1887_en.htm), in the online world, all too often consumers Read more »
Agreement on EU Conflicts Minerals Rules
General political agreement was recently reached on draft EU legislation concerning conflict minerals, which will impose compliance supply-chain due diligence requirements. We reported on the previous development of this issue in detail over a year ago here. The draft European Commission proposal (now amended by the European Parliament and the EU Council) consists of a Read more »
Predictions for 2016
Each year in January we sit down and reflect what are likely to be the compliance challenges of the year ahead. We share this information with our clients to help them predict their likely compliance challenges and we thought it would be interesting this year to share some of our thoughts more widely. We have Read more »