Jul 19, 2023 Opening up AI: have the front-runners met(a) their match? By Markos Day Meta is set to become the latest tech giant to try and grab its piece of the artificial intelligence (AI) pie through its reported...
Jun 23, 2023 Data bridge over troubled water: agreement in principle to extend EU-US Privacy Shield 2.0 By Cliodhna Ni Ghadhra Rosie Duckworth On 8 June 2023, UK and US government officials announced that they had “committed in principle” to establishing a data bridge that would...
Jun 12, 2023 Representative action struck out given need for individualised assessment of each claim By Simon Day Fred Snowball Alexandra Thorne The High Court has dismissed a claim against Google and its subsidiary DeepMind for damages for misuse of private information. Claim In...
Jun 01, 2023 Meta handed the largest fine in GDPR history for breach of international transfer provisions By Rosie Duckworth Fred Snowball Chris Akka Cliodhna Ni Ghadhra +1 more... Show less On 22 May 2023, Ireland’s Data Protection Commission (the Irish DPC) announced that it is fining Meta (formerly known as Facebook) €1.2...
Apr 25, 2023 TikTok fined £12.7m for misusing children’s data By Cliodhna Ni Ghadhra The Information Commissioner’s Office (the ICO) has recently concluded its investigation into Tiktok’s use of the personal data of...
Apr 06, 2023 “Likely to be accessed by children” – ICO seeks feedback on new draft guidance on the Children’s Code By Kazia Gagg Mark Cusack The Children’s Code (the Code) (which we covered in a previous article) applies to Information Society Service (ISS) providers whose...
Feb 27, 2023 Road blocks to Roblox? New data protection guidance for game developers By Cliodhna Ni Ghadhra Rosie Duckworth Last week, the Information Commissioner’s Office (the ICO) published new guidance for video game developers on protecting children. This...
Feb 22, 2023 Meta successfully resists certification in data privacy collective action By Jennifer Reeves Simon Day Cameron Firth In an early victory for Meta, the Competition Appeal Tribunal has refused to certify a collective claim brought on behalf of some 45...
Jan 10, 2022 Where next for mass “opt out” claims in England & Wales? By Simon Day Fred Snowball Michael Freedman In the second of our series on the Supreme Court’s judgment in Lloyd v Google, we examine the key implications of the judgment on the...
Nov 22, 2021 No claim for loss of control of personal data without financial damage or distress By Fred Snowball The Supreme Court has dismissed a claim by Richard Lloyd, a former director of Which?, against Google for unlawfully tracking the...
Aug 17, 2021 Failure to prevent a cyber attack is not negligence, breach of confidence or misuse of private information By Fred Snowball Notices of a potential data breach have become facts of life. For companies sending those notices, so have lengthy letters threatening a...
Jun 24, 2021 A GDPR for artificial intelligence? By Jessica Arapu The various institutions of the EU aim to be the rule makers and standard bearers for artificial intelligence and associated technology...
May 21, 2021 CMA and ICO publish joint policy statement on competition and data protection law By Macfarlanes The Competition and Markets Authority and the Information Commissioner’s Office yesterday released a joint policy statement on...
Mar 08, 2021 Starting to test the territorial scope of the GDPR By Macfarlanes Since 2018, many organisations based outside of the EU have been grappling with whether the extra territorial scope of the GDPR means...
Nov 04, 2020 Financial Stability Board toolkit reminds organisations that cyber resilience is crucial By Macfarlanes With the increased risks to cyber security posed by the switch to remote working necessitated by the Covid-19 pandemic, and the ICO this...
Mar 01, 2020 A prescription for smart regulation of healthcare AI By Macfarlanes With the twin goals of ensuring public confidence in the safety of healthcare AI and encouraging innovation and investment, 12 UK...