July 2024 edition of Handley Gill’s monthly digital newsletter, On Hand, with all the latest developments in data protection (UK, EU and global), cyber security, AI and machine learning, content regulation, online safety, open justice, access to information, reputation management and free speech, digital markets regulation, human rights & ESG. Presented in a readily digestible digital format, those who prefer the traditional newsletter format can export the newsletter to pdf.
Read MoreAs the Information Commissioner warns websites they have 30 days to achieve cookie compliance or face regulatory enforcement action, Handley Gill’s specialist data protection consultants advise on how to ensure that the Information Commissioner’s appetite for enforcing cookie compliance under PECR isn’t a recipe for disaster for your organisation. While amending your cookie banner is a bitter pill to swallow, your website won’t be toast and you can avoid having to eat humble pie.
Read MoreICO25, the Information Commissioner’s new draft strategic plan for the period 2022-25, currently open for consultation, identifies 15 industry sectors and data processing activities proposed to be the intended focus of the Commissioner’s investigations and enforcement activity in relation to data protection and the processing of personal data under the UK GDPR, Data Protection Act 2018 and Privacy and Electronic Communications Regulations (PECR), including recruitment, banking and finance, biometrics, the care sector, gambling, CCTV, law enforcement, health, AI and algorithms.
Read MoreThe Government has today (10 May 2022) announced in the Queen’s Speech that further to its consultation ‘Data: A New Direction’ it will bring forward legislation in this Parliamentary session to reform the UK’s data protection law (the UK GDPR, Data Protection Act 2018 and Privacy and Electronic Communications Regulations) which has been adopted virtually wholesale from the European General Data Protection Regulation (GDPR).
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