NIS Regulations are no ‘silver bullet’ when it comes to infrastructure cybersecurity: Joint Select Committee
House of Parliament Joint Select Committee publishes report on cybersecurity and critical national infrastructure…
Litigation & DR
Met Police’s use of gang member intelligence gathering database breaches DPA 1998
The ICO has issued an Enforcement Notice after concerns raised by Amnesty International…
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The Withdrawal Agreement: What might it mean for data protection?
Christopher Knight, of 11KBW, provides an instant look at what the proposed Withdrawal Agreement may mean for data protection and privacy regulation. First published on the Panopticon blog….
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Brexit: EU Communication covering Personal Data
The various EU bodies have issued a ‘Communication’, Preparing for the withdrawal of the United Kingdom from the European Union on 30 March 2019: a Contingency Action Plan, which inter alia covers personal data…
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ICO’s Computer Misuse Act Prosecution
A six-month prison sentence has been imposed on a motor industry employee following the first Computer Misuse Act prosecution by the ICO…
Geo-blocking Enforcement
The UK Geo-Blocking (Enforcement) Regulations have now been published…
The SCL Sir Brian Neill Lecture
The Inaugural SCL Sir Brian Neill Lecture is to be given by Shannon Salter on ‘Can Online Dispute Resolution (ODR) Humanize the Justice System?’…
ICO Report on its Investigation into the Use of Data Analytics in Political Campaigns
The ICO’s wide-ranging updating report to Parliament, including coverage of the data protection aspects of the actions of Cambridge Analytica, Aggregate IQ, Facebook and Leave.EU, has been published…
Abusive and Offensive Online Communications: Law Reform Call
The Law Commission has published its Scoping Report assessing the state of the law concerning abusive and offensive online communications…
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Managing Data Breaches – Notification and Risk Management
In the last from our Tech Law Masterclass series, Nigel Miller provides a guide to the provisions of the GDPR that are most relevant when a data breach is believed to have occurred…
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