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.
Handley Gill Limited calls on the Institute of Directors to amend its proposed voluntary Code of Conduct for Directors of UK companies to reflect risk management as a core tenet of responsible business and to promote business resilience across supply chains, to help UK plc win the war on cyber crime and safeguard the UK’s people, property and prosperity.
Read MoreAs the Information Commissioner’s Office conducts the fourth part of its consultation on generative AI and data protection focusing on data subject rights, ‘engineering individual rights into generative AI models’, Handley Gill’s specialist data protection and artificial intelligence (AI) consultants comment on the issues arising and share their consultation response, as well as highlighting areas not currently addressed in the draft guidance.
Read MoreAs 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.
Read MoreHandley Gill’s consultants respond to the Department for Business and Trade’s consultation on ‘Smarter Regulation and the Regulatory Landscape’, drawing on their experience of advising and representing individuals and regulated entities on data protection, online safety, content regulation, AI, human rights and ESG issues before regulators including the Information Commissioner’s Office, Ofcom and the Competition and Markets Authority (CMA).
Read MoreHandley Gill’s specialist data protection consultants respond to the Information Commissioner’s consultation on its draft Data Protection Fining Guidance, which will replace relevant parts of its Regulatory Action Policy (2018) relating to when the issue of a monetary penalty notice is appropriate and the approach to calculating any fine.
Read MoreHandley Gill Limited’s consultants respond to the Information Commissioner’s consultation on the draft Biometric Data Guidance Phase 1. We call for clarity on the circumstances in which the deployment of biometric recognition technologies will be considered to be lawful, particularly in the context of employment and the workplace, confirmation that a Data Protection Impact Assessment (DPIA) will always be required when deploying biometric recognition technologies and inclusion of the benefits and risks of biometric recognition. Finally, we argued for greater clarity about the requirements for further processing of special category biometric data.
Read MoreHome Office Minister Lord Sharpe has confirmed that, following intensive lobbying by pockets of the cyber security industry, the government intends to pursue the introduction of a statutory public interest defence to the offences under the Computer Misuse Act 1990 (‘CMA’). Handley Gill Limited’s consultants consider the implications for cyber resilience, the protection of personal data and IP, and the ability of law enforcement to prosecute offences.
Read MoreHandley Gill Limited’s consultants respond to the Home Office consultation on proposals to revise the Computer Misuse Act 1990 to introduce additional powers for law enforcement bodies to takedown and seize domains and IP addresses and, require the preservation of data, as well as to introduce new offences and stronger sentencing for the copying of data. We also call for stronger cyber resilience legislation, through the introduction of minimum cyber security standards, while rejecting lobbying efforts for a blanket public interest defence to CMA offences. Finally, we advocate for stronger extra-territoriality of CMA offences and stronger sentencing powers and associated guidance.
Read MoreHandley Gill Limited, and its specialist data protection consultants, respond to the Information Commissioner’s (ICO’s) consultation on its draft ‘Employment practices and data protection: information about workers’ health guidance, which address the use of special category data concerning health in the context of maintaining sickness, injury and absence records, occupational health schemes, conducting medical examinations and testing (including drug testing) and other health monitoring.
Read MoreHandley Gill Limited, and its specialist data protection consultants, respond to the Information Commissioner’s (ICO’s) consultation on its draft ‘Employment practices: monitoring at work’ guidance, which addresses the lawfulness of the use of workplace monitoring and surveillance technologies in the workplace (whether office, home or remote working) and on workers’ devices.
Read MoreHandley Gill Limited’s response to the Information Commissioner’s second consultation on the draft statutory ‘Data protection and journalism code of practice’, on the processing of personal data for the purpose of journalism under the UK GDPR and Data Protection Act 2018. The ICO is obliged by s.124 Data Protection Act 2018 to prepare and submit the code to the Secretary of State at the Department for Digital, Culture, Media & Sport (DCMS) for it to be laid before Parliament.
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