The EU is changing the EU E-Privacy Directive also often called the “Cookies Directive”, in order to be line with the EU General Data Protection Regulation (“GDPR”) which was adopted in Spring this year – we previously wrote about the changes here. A consultation on the changes was launched this April which ran to July Read more »
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Investigatory Powers Act 2016 becomes law
What is the Investigatory Powers Act? The Investigatory Powers Act 2016 (sometimes known as the IP Bill before it became law) is new legislation aimed at helping the UK Government have access to data to fight terrorism and other crimes. It does however have wider ramifications – even the introduction to the IP Act calls Read more »
Everything Compliance: podcast interview with Jonathan Armstrong
Tom Fox of FCPA Compliance & Ethics hosted this round table with Cordery Lawyer, Jonathan Armstrong and other leading compliance experts. Jonathan leads a discussion of funding and the UK Serious Fraud Office (SFO), in the context of the recent announcement that the SFO has received additional or supplemental funding to investigate Unaoil. Why does the Read more »
Interview with Max Schrems
What is this about? Last Friday 21 October at the New York State Bar International Section seasonal meeting held in Paris, Jonathan Armstrong from Cordery interviewed the high-profile privacy advocate and litigant Max Schrems. It will be recalled that Max brought the case that ended up before the European Court of Justice that brought down Read more »
Tougher rules on data – GDPR and more: Webinar
Iain Bourne of the Information Commissioner’s Office (ICO) spoke last week with Cordery lawyer, Jonathan Armstrong in an exclusive webinar giving an inside view of the current state of play with data protection in the UK & in Europe. Iain is the Group Manager – Policy Delivery for the UK’s data privacy regulator, the ICO. Read more »
EU extends sanctions against Russian entities and individuals to March 2017
Since early 2014 the EU has imposed various sanctions with regard to Russia in connection with the situation in the Ukraine and the Crimea through a raft of different measures which have undergone expansion and renewal – we reported on the most recent extension (measures against the Russian financial, energy and defence sectors, and, dual-use Read more »
EU General Data Protection Regulation
Download your EU General Data Protection FAQs PDF here. Watch our quick introduction to the Regulation. GDPR applies across the board. The new law will apply: to businesses in the EU; and to businesses outside the EU where they target EU residents (even if they don’t take their money) This means GDPR will have more Read more »
Vidal-Hall Data Protection Class Action Appeal Settled
Introduction It is understood that Google and the claimants in the Google -v- Vidal-Hall case have now reached a settlement agreement and consequently the case will no longer be heard by the UK’s Supreme Court. The case is an important one – it has been called the UK’s first successful data protection class action. We Read more »
EU Cyber Security Rules Adopted
Introduction In an attempt to counter an ever-growing global menace, new EU cyber security rules have been finalized and published. They aim to address cyber security challenges at an EU-wide level – the new rules can be found here. The new EU rules are in the form of a Directive called the “NIS Directive” (in 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 »