Following the announcement on 22 May 2024 of the snap General Election to take place on 04 July 2024, Parliament has been prorogued with effect from 24 May 2024 (meaning Parliamentary business is suspended thereafter) and will be dissolved with effect from 30 May 2024. The brief period between the announcement of the election and prorogation is known as wash up, when political parties must negotiate to pass outstanding Bills, or parts of them, or Bills fall. Prorogation also bring an end to the work of the various Parliamentary Committees. Handley Gill’s consultants consider which Bills have been washed up and which have fallen in the context of cyber security, data protection, online safety, artificial intelligence (AI), digital markets, content regulation, reputation management, open justice, access to information, human rights and ESG, as well as the work of Parliamentary Committees which were either rushed out or dropped.

Nicola Cain5 June 2024General Election 2024, GE2024, Data Protection, Personal Data, Data Protection and Digital Information Bill, Media Bill, Media Act 2024, Digital Markets Competition & Consumers Bill, Digital Markets Competition & Consumers Act 2024, Human Rights, Duty of Candour, Joint Committee on Human Rights, Education Committee, Commons Education Committee, Screentime impact on education & wellbeing, Science Innovation & Technology Committee, House of Commons Science Innovation & Technology Committee, Artificial Intelligence, AI, AI Governance, Governance of Artificial Intelligence, Artificial Intelligence (Regulation) Bill, SLAPPs, Strategic Litigation Against Public Participation Bill, Criminal Justice Bill, European Affairs Committee, UK-EU Data Adequacy, Adequacy Decision, Cyber Security, Information Security, Cyber Resilience, Cyber resilience of the UK's critical national infrastructure (CNI), Commons Women & Equalities Committee, Non-consensual intimate image abuse, Revenge porn, Online Safety, Online Harms, DPDI Bill, OFCOM, Competition and Markets Authority, CMA, Strategic Lawsuit Against Public Participation, Strategic Litigation Against Public Participation, Data Protection Reform, UK GDPR, Victims and Prisoners Act 2024, Article 17 UK GDPR, Article 17 GDPR, Right to Erasure, Right to be ForgottenComment

On Hand May 2024

The May 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, open justice, access to information, reputation management, 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.

Nicola Cain31 May 2024On Hand, Cyber Security, Information Security, Cyber Attack, Data Breach, Data Protection, Personal Data, GDPR, General Data Protection Regulation, UK GDPR, UK GENERAL DATA PROTECTION REGULATION, DATA PROTECTION ACT 2018, PRIVACY AND ELECTRONIC COMMUNICATIONS REGULATIONS, PECR, Data Protection and Digital Information Bill, DPDI Bill, Information Commissioner, Information Commissioner's Office, EDPB, European Data Protection Board, Artificial Intelligence, AI, AI Regulation, Machine Learning, Algorithmic Accountability, Algorithm Transparency, Open Justice, Freedom of Information Act 2000, Environmental Information Regulations 2004, Access to Information, CONTENT REGULATION, Broadcasting Code, Broadcasting Regulation, VSPs, Video Sharing Platforms, Reputation Management, Defamation, Libel, Slander, Misuse of Private Information, Privacy, Data Privacy, Digital Markets, Human Rights, Human Rights Act 1998, ESG, Environmental Social & Governance, Environmental Social & Corporate Governance, OFCOMComment

Consigned to a watery grave

The snap General Election announced by Prime Minister Rishi Sunak for 04 July 2024, and the consequent curtailment of the Parliamentary session, will mean that there will be insufficient time for the remaining Parliamentary stages of the Data Protection and Digital Information Bill, including the House of Lords Report stage which was due to commence from 10 June, to be undertaken prior to the prorogation and dissolution of Parliament.

Nicola Cain22 May 2024Data Protection, Personal Data, UK GDPR, UK GENERAL DATA PROTECTION REGULATION, DATA PROTECTION ACT 2018, DPA 2018, Privacy and Electronic Communications (EC Directive) Regulations 2003, PECR, Data Protection and Digital Information (No. 2) Bill, Data Protection and Digital Information Bill, DPDI Bill, DPDI (No.2) Bill, DPDI2 Bill, Data Reform Bill, Data Protection ReformComment

Data Protection Day 2024

This Data Protection Day 2024 - aka Data Privacy Day 2024 - on 28 January, Handley Gill Limited’s specialist data protection consultants identify the ways that both data subjects and data controllers can ‘Take Control of Your Data’.

New and improved?

The Second Reading of, and first chance for Parliament to debate, the government’s second attempt to reform the UK’s data protection legislation, in what it has described as the “improved” and “common-sense-led” Data Protection and Digital Information (No.2) Bill (Bill 265 2022-23) takes place on 17 April 2023. Handley Gill’s specialist data protection consultants consider its impact on the UK’s existing data protection legislation and identify amendments that would improve the Bill.

Nicola Cain17 April 2023Data Protection, Personal Data, GDPR, UK GDPR, Data Protection Act 2018, Data Protection Reform, PECR, DPA 2018, Privacy and Electronic Communications Regulations, Data Reform Bill, Data Protection and Digital Information Bill, Data Protection and Digital Information (No. 2) Bill, Bill 265 2022-23, DPDI Bill, Data: A New Direction, DPDI2 Bill, Bill 143 2022-23, General Data Protection Regulation, UK GENERAL DATA PROTECTION REGULATION, DPDI(2) Bill, DPDI (No.2) Bill, Information Commissioner, Information Commission, Supervisory Authority, Department for Culture Media & Sport, Department for Science Technology & Innovation, Department for Science Innnovation & Technology, Department for Science Innovation & Technology, Brexit, Innovation, Code of Practice, Statutory Code of Practice, DATA SUBJECT ACCESS REQUEST, Data Subject Rights, Vexatious or excessive, Approved person, Data subject complaint, Data controller complaint, Statement of Strategic Priorities, Enforcement, Regulatory Enforcement, Interview notices, First Tier Tribunal (Information Rights), Notice of Intent, Monetary Penalty Notice, Definition of personal data, Data Controller, Data ProcessorComment

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.

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.

DCMS SoS?

Handley Gill considers the impact of the new Prime Minister, Liz Truss, and Secretary of State at the Department for Digital, Culture, Media and Sport, for the Online Safety Bill and the Data Protection and Digital Information Bill.

Keeling calling: Data Protection & Digital Information Bill

Unofficial Keeling schedules demonstrating the effect that the Data Protection and Digital Information Bill (Bill 143 2022-23) (as introduced) will have on the Data Protection Act 2018 and Privacy and Electronic Communications Regulations (PECR), and a comparison between the GDPR, UK GDPR and the UK GDPR with prospective amendments from the Data Protection and Digital Information Bill.

Nicola Cain29 August 2022Data Protection, Personal Data, GDPR, UK GDPR, General Data Protection Regulation, UK GENERAL DATA PROTECTION REGULATION, Data Protection Act 2018, Privacy and Electronic Communications Regulations, PECR, Data Protection Reform, Data Protection and Digital Information Bill, Bill 143 2022-23, Keeling ScheduleComment

Truss calls time for TikTok?

As Conservative Party Leadership Contest candidate Liz Truss threatened to crack down on ByteDance, the Chinese owner of social media platform TikTok, during the BBC’s News Special ‘Our Next Prime Minister’ on 25 July 2022, we explore how she might seek to do that under the National Security and Investment Act 2021, through amendments to the Online Safety Bill and/or Data Protection and Digital Information Bill and through the actions of regulators Ofcom and the Information Commissioner.

Nicola Cain26 July 2022Conservative Party, Conservative Party Leader, Prime Minister, Liz Truss, Nadine Dorries, Secretary of State for Digital Culture Media and Sport, Foreign Secretary, TikTok, ByteDance, China, Rishi Sunak, Faisal Islam, BBC, National Security and Investment Act 2021, The National Security and Investment Act 2021 (Notifiable Acquisition) (Specification of Qualifying Entities) Regulations 2021, Defamation, Absolute Privilege, ONLINE SAFETY BILL, Data Protection and Digital Information Bill, Data Protection & Digital Information Bill, DPDI Bill, OFCOM, Information Commissioner, Information Commissioner's Office, Information Commission, ICO25, Fit and Proper, Video on Demand, VOD, Video Streaming Sites, Video Sharing Platforms, VSPs, International data transfers, Data Localisation, Prior Consultation, Statement of Strategic Priorities, Kemi Badenoch, CONTENT REGULATION, Platform Regulation, Technology Regulation, USER GENERATED CONTENT, UGCComment