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Posts tagged Data Protection Act 1998
Keeping on Keeling

Handley 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.

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Back on the Data Protection Reform Merry-Go-Round

The 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.

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Britain's Got Talent's Got Problems

Handley 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.

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GDP-ouR

In 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.

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Revocation and Reform offers no R & R

Without intervention by DCMS, the Retained EU Law (Revocation and Reform) Bill will decimate the UK’s data protection law framework.

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