Cordery’s Jonathan Armstrong will be speaking at the 21st Annual Compliance and Ethics Institute in Phoenix, Arizona on Monday 17 October 2022. He will be talking about the winners and losers in compliance in the last 12 months and he will be joined again by Mary Shirley and Kris Robidoux. You can find out more Read more »
ICO Fines Clearview £7.5 Million for Data Protection Infringements
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 »
EU NIS II Proposed Rules Agreed By EU Countries & EU Parliament
What’s this about? In 2016 the EU introduced the so-called NIS Directive (NIS I) which EU countries had to implement in 2018 (just before EU GDPR fully came into force!). Broadly-speaking, NIS I aimed at ensuring cybersecurity regulatory harmonization across the EU. Under the NIS I regime, entities that fall in scope have to report 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Introduction The European Data Protection Board (EDPB) recently issued its draft guidance on calculating fines entitled “Guidelines 04/2022 on the calculation of administrative fines under the GDPR” This article looks at this development in brief.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 Modern Slavery Update
Introduction A recent report urges boardrooms to do more to eradicate modern slavery and, although there are some positive findings, the report is quite critical of business’ compliance in this area. This article looks briefly at the report’s highlights. Background Under the UK Modern Slavery Act 2015 (the 2015 Act), compliance disclosure and transparency requirements 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 »
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