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Our expert consultants at Handley Gill share their knowledge and advice on emerging data protection, privacy, content regulation, reputation management, cyber security, and information access issues in our blog.

Posts tagged Article 6(1)(f) UK GDPR
Every little bit of data helps?
Every little bit of data helps?

While the sale of marketing lists is generally prohibited, as retail insolvencies increase Handley Gill’s specialist data protection consultants analyse the Information Commissioner’s laissez-faire approach to the purchase and use of the CRM databases of companies in administration and consider the opportunity this offers to administrators and potential purchasers of distressed businesses by reference to the recent case studies of Tesco’s purchase of Paperchase’s assets and the sale of The Body Shop’s assets.  

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Nicola CainData Protection, Personal Data, GDPR, General Data Protection Regulation, UK GDPR, UK GENERAL DATA PROTECTION REGULATION, PRIVACY AND ELECTRONIC COMMUNICATIONS REGULATIONS, PECR, MARKETING, Direct Marketing, Email Marketing, Insolvency, Distress Business, Administration, Administrators, Mergers and Acquisitions, M&A, Corporate Law, Asset Sale, Asset Purchase, Share Purchase, Share Sale, Retail, IP, IPR, Intellectual Property, Intellectual Property Rights, CRM, CRM Database, ICO, Information Commissioner, Information Commissioner's Office, Data Protection Enforcement, Lawful Basis for Processing, ARTICLE 6 UK GDPR, Article 6(1)(f) UK GDPR, Legitimate Interests, Consent, Article 6(1)(a) UK GDPR, Distressed BusinessComment
You Shall EU
You Shall EU

Handley Gill's specialist data protection consultants consider the status of CJEU judgments in UK law after the Labour government intervened to prevent section 6 Retained EU Law (Revocation and Reform) Act 2023 from coming into force and amending the European Union (Withdrawal) Act 2018, and consider several CJEU judgments addressing the processing of special category personal data, the interaction between data protection and competition law, the conduct and balancing of legitimate interests assessments, data minimisation and the status of supervisory authority decisions.

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Nicola CainData Protection, GDPR, EU GDPR, General Data Protection Regulation, Regulation (EU) 2016/679, UK GDPR, UK GENERAL DATA PROTECTION REGULATION, Retained EU Law, Retained EU Law (Revocation and Reform) Act 2023, European Union (Withdrawal) Act 2018, Section 6 European Union (Withdrawal) Act 2018, section 6 Retained EU Law (Revocation and Reform) Act 2023, Assimilated Law, BREXIT, CJEU, Data Controller, Data Minimisation, Supervisory Authority, Health Data, Article 9(1) GDPR, Article 9 GDPR, Article 9 UK GDPR, Article 9(1) UK GDPR, Legitimate Interests, Legitimate Interests Assessment, LIA, Article 6(1)(f) UK GDPR, Article 6(1)(f) GDPR, Commercial Interests, Advertising, MARKETING, Targeted Advertising, Behavioural Advertising, Personalised Advertising, Data Sharing, Necessity, C-446/21, C-621/22, C-21/23, C-200/23, SPECIAL CATEGORY PERSONAL DATA, Special Category Data, Sexual Orientation, Article 9(2)(a) GDPR, Article 9(2)(a) UK GDPR, Article 9(2)(e) GDPR, Article 9(2)(e) UK GDPR, Article 5(1)(c) GDPR, Article 5(1)(c) UK GDPR, Data Retention, C-507/23, Compensation, Damages, Article 82 GDPR, Article 82(1) GDPR, ApologyComment
Scraping together a lawful basis
Scraping together a lawful basis

As the Information Commissioner’s Office consults on the lawful basis for web scraping by AI developers to train generative AI models under the UK GDPR, Handley Gill’s specialist data protection and artificial intelligence (AI) consultants comment on the issues arising and share their consultation response.

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Nicola CainData Protection, Personal Data, Data Privacy, UK GDPR, GDPR, UK GENERAL DATA PROTECTION REGULATION, General Data Protection Regulation, ARTICLE 6 UK GDPR, Article 6(1)(f) UK GDPR, Legitimate Interests, Legitimate Interests Assessment, Information Commissioner, Information Commissioner's Office, Consultation, Consultation Response, Artificial Intelligence, AI, Generative AI, Generative Artificial Intelligence, Intellectual Property, Intellectual Property Rights, Copyright, Copyright Infringement, Web Scraping, AI Training, AI Training Data, Intellectual Property Office, IPO, A pro-innovation approach to AI regulation, Voluntary code of practice on copyright and AI, Sir Patrick Vallance, Pro-Innovation Regulation for Digital Technologies Review, House of Lords Communications & Digital Committee, Report on Large Language Models (LLMs) and Generative AI, Data Mining, Copyright Designs and Patents Act 1988, AI Regulation, Joint statement on data scraping and data protection, Data scraping, Generative AI & Data ProtectionComment
U-turn?
U-turn?

Handley Gill summarises the Government's publication of its response to the ‘Data: A New Direction’ consultation, previewing the content of the forthcoming Data Reform Bill, which was proposed in ‘The Benefits of Brexit’ policy paper and formally announced in the Queen’s Speech 2022.

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