In this short film Cordery’s Jonathan Armstrong looks at the investigation by the data protection authorities in Ireland into Facebook and the Data Protection Impact Assessment (DPIA) for their dating service. Jonathan then shares some tips on the DPIA process – why is it worth doing and how do you do it? Cordery provide DPIA Read more »
Life With GDPR: Episode 36.1 – Dawn Raid at FB
In this special episode of Life with GDPR, Jonathan Armstrong and Tom Fox consider the dawn raid of the Irish Data Protection Commission on Facebook around the company’s abortive dating app it has wanted to release on Valentine’s Day. What is the role of a DPIA in a new tech offering? Why is training so Read more »
Client Alert: Ireland’s Data Protection Authority Halts Facebook Dating Service
Yesterday Ireland’s Data Protection Commission (DPC) confirmed that it had visited Facebook’s premises in Ireland over concerns about the data protection aspects of Facebook’s planned new dating service. This is the most high profile ‘dawn raid’ under GDPR to date and has led to the postponement of Facebook’s planned launch tomorrow. What is this about? 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 »
Episode 258: Be Afraid, Be Very Afraid Of Deepfakes!
In this week’s episode, Jonathan and Eric look at the problems and consequences of Deepfakes. A Deepfake is a human synthesis method based on Artificial Intelligence (AI) usually for economic, political or personal reasons. Deepfakes are used to disseminate fake news and are becoming increasingly indistinguishable from reality due to the sophistication of the underlying algorithms. Google Read more »
Unsung Heroes – Cordery’s Armstrong wins award
Photo courtesy of Dan Raywood Security Serious – Unsung Heroes Awards Cordery’s Jonathan Armstrong won an award for leading data security compliance recently at the annual Security Serious “Unsung Heroes” awards. The fourth annual awards celebrate the people of the cybersecurity industry, recognizing the individuals and teams working hard to fight cybercrime and raise awareness of Read more »
Client Alert: Doors open for data protection class action as appeal court allows Google claim to proceed?
Introduction The UK Court of Appeal today allowed a representative action brought by Richard Lloyd against Google to proceed. Whilst this does not mean that US-style class actions are set to hit the UK, it is likely to lead to more litigation over data protection violations, including security breaches. This note includes some technical data Read more »
Episode 256: Prosecutors Seek To Crackdown On Romance Scams
In this week’s TechLaw10 podcast Eric and Jonathan look at the issues with romance scams on the internet. Jonathan talks about recent FTC enforcement action which is detailed here https://www.ftc.gov/news-events/press-releases/2019/09/ftc-sues-owner-online-dating-service-matchcom-using-fake-love and about a recent BBC article into scammers being seen as role models in Nigeria here https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/world-africa-49759392 TechLaw10 is a 10-minute audio podcast update Read more »
Client Alert: Right to be Forgotten Back Before ECJ
Introduction We have written before the about the right to be forgotten and two new rulings from the European Court of Justice last week add some clarity as to what that right entails. There are some technical terms in this note which you can check by looking at our glossary at www.bit.ly/gdprwords. What’s the history? Read more »
ICO data sharing code consultation
Introduction As required by the UK Data Protection Act 2018 (DPA 2018), the UK’s data protection regulator the Information Commissioner’s Office (ICO) is currently updating its existing data sharing code of practice. As part of that process the ICO has opened a consultation for interested parties on the draft revised code that the ICO has Read more »
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