Introduction In October 2018 the UK Court of Appeal upheld a UK High Court ruling that employees of WM Morrisons Supermarket plc (a retail chain usually known as Morrisons) could succeed in getting financial compensation after a data breach caused by one of Morrisons’ employees – our article and film about the High Court ruling Read more »
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Client Alert: ICO Secures Criminal Convictions in Cambridge Analytica Subject Access Case
Introduction Yesterday’s criminal conviction of SCL Elections, the parent company of Cambridge Analytica, shows the importance of dealing with data subject rights properly. What is the background to the case? The case concerns the investigation by the Data Protection Authority (DPA) in the UK, the Information Commissioner’s Office (ICO) into Cambridge Analytica and its role Read more »
Client Alert: ICO Secures Criminal Convictions in Cambridge Analytica Subject Access Case
Introduction Yesterday’s criminal conviction of SCL Elections, the parent company of Cambridge Analytica, shows the importance of dealing with data subject rights properly. What is the background to the case? The case concerns the investigation by the Data Protection Authority (DPA) in the UK, the Information Commissioner’s Office (ICO) into Cambridge Analytica and its role Read more »
Client Alert: ICO Brexit and Data Protection Guidance
Introduction In light of a possible no Brexit deal scenario when the UK leaves the EU on 29 March 2019, which looks like a distinct possibility, the UK’s data protection regulator, the Information Commissioner’s Office (ICO), has issued information and guidance about data protection in this situation. What’s the issue? Under the EU General Data Read more »
UK Government Response to Cybersecurity/NIS Digital Service Providers Consultation
Introduction & Background The UK government recently published its response to digital service providers in the context of its cybersecurity consultation, which this brief article is about. This May 2018 the UK adopted the EU Cybersecurity Directive into UK law, called the Network and Information Systems Regulations 2018 (the NIS regime), which we wrote about Read more »
Data Protection Breaches & Compensation/Litigation – Issues For Consideration
Introduction Class-action litigation (technically called group action/group litigation in the UK) in connection with data protection issues is on the rise in the UK. Under class-action litigation individuals with similar grievances can come together against an alleged wrongdoer and in effect act through strength in numbers (sharing advice and documentation etc.) and reduce costs. In Read more »
Client Alert: UK Brexit No Deal Notice & Data Transfers
Introduction Due to the possibility of no deal being reached between the UK and the EU before the UK is set to leave the EU at the end of March 2019 the UK government has been issuing technical notices in a number of areas to help organizations plan for such an eventuality. Such a notice Read more »
Client Alert: Equifax fined by UK Data Protection Regulator
This week the UK Information Commissioner’s Office (ICO) issued a monetary penalty of £500,000 to the data broker Equifax Ltd for its part in the data breach at its parent company, Equifax Inc. This wasn’t just a fine about the breach however and the case has some additional interesting aspects. To simplify things in this Read more »
Client Alert: Data Protection Impact Assessment
Data Protection Impact Assessments (DPIAs) are one of the key elements of GDPR. They help organisations assess risk and deal with it in a proportionate way. The DPIA process is not new – the UK Data Protection Authority issued their first guidance on Privacy Impact Assessments in 2007, but DPIAs get statutory footing under GDPR Read more »
Client Alert: Brexit and Sanctions / Anti Money-Laundering
What is this about? Sanctions are applied in a variety of situations and are sometimes divided into: those which restrict trade and business (also known as embargoes) regarding certain countries. Embargoes often impose prohibitions or licensing requirements; and those in the sphere of finance which restrict dealings in money and providing financial services and funds Read more »
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