What is this about? The UK has imposed additional sanctions on Russia. This article is a brief look at this development. What is the UK sanctions regime? The UK put legislation in place some time ago to be able to deal post-Brexit with sanctions under the Sanctions and Anti-Money Laundering Act 2018 (“SAMLA 2018”). The Read more »
Data Transfers from the UK (IDTA & Addendum) – What Are The Dates I Need To Know?
What’s this all about? The UK’s international data transfer instruments are now in force, which this article looks at in brief. What’s new? EU GDPR regulates international data transfers, which can only be made in certain ways and subject to various conditions. EU Standard Contractual Clauses (“SCCs”) have been a widely used data transfer instrument Read more »
European Data Protection Board Personal Data Breach Guidelines
What’s this all about? The European Data Protection Board (“EDPB”) issued “Guidelines 01/2021 on Examples regarding Personal Data Breach Notification” (“the guidelines”) late last year. This article looks at its practical aspects. Introduction Under EU GDPR, subject to certain conditions, data breaches have to be notified to a national data protection regulator and communicated to Read more »
Agreement Reached In Principle On Data Transfers from the EU to the US
What’s this all about? It has been announced that in principle the EU and the US have reached agreement on a new deal for data transfers from the EU to the US, which is currently being referred to as the Trans-Atlantic Data Privacy Framework/Agreement. Background Briefly, under EU GDPR, international data transfers can only be Read more »
Everything Compliance – Episode 96 – The Spring arrives Edition
Welcome to the only roundtable podcast in compliance. In this episode Jonathan talks about the recent ICO enforcement action against Tuckers. You can read more about the Tuckers investigation and fine here https://bit.ly/tuckersbreach There are more details of the podcast and the contributions from Jay Rosen, Tom Fox, Jonathan Armstrong, and Matt Kelly here: http://compliancepodcastnetwork.net/episode-96-the-spring-arrives-edition/ Read more »
UK Online Safety Bill
What’s this all about? The Online Safety Bill (“the Bill”) was recently introduced before the UK Parliament. The Bill mainly aims at significantly regulating online content. This article looks at some of its highlights. In a nutshell, what’s the Bill about? In brief, the Bill creates a new statutory duty of care designed to make Read more »
Resolving data protection complaints under EU GDPR “Amicable Settlement”
What’s this all about? This brief article looks at what EU guidance says about the resolution of data protection complaints brought by individuals to data protection regulators through so-called “amicable settlement”. What’s the issue? Recital 131of EU GDPR states that where data protection complaints are essentially local the relevant local regulator in the EU country Read more »
UK Economic Crime (Transparency & Enforcement) Act 2022 and Latest UK Sanctions & Measures on Russia and Belarus
What is this about? Fast-tracked with lightning speed (in light of events in Ukraine) the UK has introduced new legislation which improves transparency concerning foreign ownership of UK property, reinforces the so-called UK Unexplained Wealth Orders regime, and broadens the UK sanctions regime. This new law is called the Economic Crime (Transparency & Enforcement) Act Read more »
SCCE Compliance & Ethics blog – André Bywater on UK sanctions on Russia
André Bywater has written a guest article for the SCCE Compliance & Ethics blog on UK sanctions on Russia. André provides an overview of the sanctions that the UK has imposed on Russia (which continue to evolve) along with some compliance thoughts for organisations about actions that they should consider doing. André’s blog can be Read more »
Client Alert: Law Firm fined for GDPR Breaches
Introduction The UK Data Protection Authority, the Information Commissioners Office (ICO) announced yesterday that it had fined a law firm, Tuckers Solicitors LLP, on 28 February for GDPR breaches. Tuckers was fined £98,000 after being hit by a ransomware attack. There are some technical GDPR terms used in this note which are explained at www.bit.ly/gdprwords. Read more »
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