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’s specialist data protection consultants report on the final sessions of the House of Commons Public Bill Committee on the Data (Use and Access) Bill on 11 March 2025, when the government reversed several amendments made in the House of Lords.
Read MoreHandley Gill’s specialist data protection consultants report on the first sittings of the House of Commons Public Bill Committee on the Data (Use and Access) Bill on 04 March 2025, when the government reversed several amendments made in the House of Lords.
Read MoreUnofficial Keeling schedules demonstrating the effect that the Data (Use & Access) Bill (Bill 179 20224-25) (as brought from the Lords) will have on the Data Protection Act 2018, UK GDPR and Privacy and Electronic Communications (EC Directive) Regulations (PECR).
Read MoreHandley Gill highlights the written evidence submitted by its expert data protection consultants to the House of Commons Public Bill Committee on the the Data (Use & Access) Bill, detailing the implications of the Bill and opportunities to improve it through amendments, which has been accepted and published by the Committee as DUAB20.
Read MoreHandley Gill’s specialist data protection consultants report on the Data (Use and Access) Bill’s Second Reading in the House of Commons on 12 February 2025, which provided MPs with the first opportunity to debate proposals to reform the UK’s data protection legislation.
Read MoreHandley Gill’s specialist data protection consultants report on peers’ final consideration of the Data (Use and Access) Bill at Third Reading on 05 February 2025, when the Government was defeated by Baroness Owen’s amendments in relation to non-consensual deepfake intimate image offences, before the Bill was sent to the House of Commons.
Read MoreFollowing the conclusion of the House of Lords’ Grand Committee’s scrutiny of the Data (Use and Access) Bill, Handley Gill’s specialist data protection consultants report on peers’ consideration of the Bill at Report stage on 21 and 28 January 2025.
Read MoreAs the Data (Use and Access) Bill continues its passage through the House of Lords, Handley Gill’s specialist data protection consultants summarise the fourth and final scrutiny session of the House of Lords’ Grand Committee on the Data (Use and Access) Bill on 18 December 2024, when peers continued their consideration of the provisions of Part 5 of the Data (Use and Access) Bill on ‘Data protection and privacy’, and Parts 6-8.
Read MoreAs the Data (Use and Access) Bill continues its passage through the House of Lords, Handley Gill’s specialist data protection consultants summarise third scrutiny session of the House of Lords’ Grand Committee on the Data (Use and Access) Bill on 16 December 2024, when peers continued their consideration of the provisions of Part 5 of the Data (Use and Access) Bill on ‘Data protection and privacy’.
Read MoreAs the Data (Use and Access) Bill continues its passage through the House of Lords, Handley Gill’s specialist data protection consultants summarise the second scrutiny session of the House of Lords’ Grand Committee on the Data (Use and Access) Bill on 10 December 2024, when peers began their consideration of the provisions of Part 5 of the Data (Use and Access) Bill on ‘Data protection and privacy’.
Read MoreAs the Data (Use and Access) Bill continues its passage through the House of Lords, Handley Gill’s specialist data protection consultants summarise the first session of the House of Lords’ Grand Committee’s scrutiny of the Data (Use and Access) Bill on 03 December 2024.
Read MoreIn a comprehensive briefing, the Handley Gill’s specialist data protection consultants analyse the provisions of the Labour government’s Data (Use and Access) Bill (HL Bill 40 2024-25) as introduced in the House of Lords on 23 October 2024, the latest attempt after the Data Protection and Digital Information Bill to reform UK data protection law, as set out in the UK GDPR, Data Protection Act 2018, Data Protection Act 1998 and the Privacy and Electronic Communications Regulations 2003 (PECR).
Read MoreHandley Gill’s specialist data protection consultants have prepared unofficial Keeling schedules showing track change mark ups of the changes proposed by the Data (Use & Access) Bill (HL Bill 40) to the Data Protection Act 2018, UK General Data Protection Regulation (UK GDPR) and Privacy and Electronic Communications Regulations 2003 (PECR) respectively. Download for free and sign up for updates on the Bill.
Read MoreThe new Labour government has today (23 October 2024) introduced the Data (Use and Access) Bill in the House of Lords, in the latest attempt to reform the UK’s data protection laws as set out in the UK GDPR, Data Protection Act 2018, Data Protection Act 1998 and Privacy and Electronic Communications Regulations.
Read MoreHandley Gill Ltd’s specialist consultants provide initial comment and analysis on The Sun’s report of David Walliams’ data protection claim against one of the co-producers of ITV’s Britain’s Got Talent, Fremantle Media, including the nature of the claim, potential defences and the sums being claimed. The claim arises from the the leak of a transcript of comments made by Walliams on set to The Guardian in November 2022.
Read MoreIn a speech at the Conservative Party Conference 2022, Michelle Donelan MP, the Secretary of State for Digital, Culture, Media and Sport, announced a bespoke British system of data protection, appearing to indicate a significant revision to the Data Protection and Digital Reform Bill currently undergoing Parliamentary consideration and a potential consolidation of the UK’s data protection law framework.
Read MoreWithout intervention by DCMS, the Retained EU Law (Revocation and Reform) Bill will decimate the UK’s data protection law framework.
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