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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 Data Protection Offences
A problem shared...

As Iceland boss Richard Walker decried data protection and human rights laws for allegedly preventing him and his staff from sharing information with other retailers in order tackle the scourge of shoplifting, Handley Gill’s specialist data protection consultants consider how these and other laws apply to retailers and shopping centre operators and identify the steps retailers can take to lawfully share personal data for the purposes of preventing or detecting crime.

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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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What's missing from the Computer Misuse Act 1990?

Handley 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.

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Exclusive: Information Commissioner’s Office kisses source protection goodbye

Exclusive: Information Commissioner’s Office breached obligations when targeting journalists’ sources by conducting raids over Hancock snog CCTV footage

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