You Shall EU

Handley Gill's specialist data protection consultants consider the status of CJEU judgments in UK law after the Labour government intervened to prevent section 6 Retained EU Law (Revocation and Reform) Act 2023 from coming into force and amending the European Union (Withdrawal) Act 2018, and consider several CJEU judgments addressing the processing of special category personal data, the interaction between data protection and competition law, the conduct and balancing of legitimate interests assessments, data minimisation and the status of supervisory authority decisions.

Nicola Cain7 October 2024Data Protection, GDPR, EU GDPR, General Data Protection Regulation, Regulation (EU) 2016/679, UK GDPR, UK GENERAL DATA PROTECTION REGULATION, Retained EU Law, Retained EU Law (Revocation and Reform) Act 2023, European Union (Withdrawal) Act 2018, Section 6 European Union (Withdrawal) Act 2018, section 6 Retained EU Law (Revocation and Reform) Act 2023, Assimilated Law, BREXIT, CJEU, Data Controller, Data Minimisation, Supervisory Authority, Health Data, Article 9(1) GDPR, Article 9 GDPR, Article 9 UK GDPR, Article 9(1) UK GDPR, Legitimate Interests, Legitimate Interests Assessment, LIA, Article 6(1)(f) UK GDPR, Article 6(1)(f) GDPR, Commercial Interests, Advertising, MARKETING, Targeted Advertising, Behavioural Advertising, Personalised Advertising, Data Sharing, Necessity, C-446/21, C-621/22, C-21/23, C-200/23, SPECIAL CATEGORY PERSONAL DATA, Special Category Data, Sexual Orientation, Article 9(2)(a) GDPR, Article 9(2)(a) UK GDPR, Article 9(2)(e) GDPR, Article 9(2)(e) UK GDPR, Article 5(1)(c) GDPR, Article 5(1)(c) UK GDPR, Data Retention, C-507/23, Compensation, Damages, Article 82 GDPR, Article 82(1) GDPR, ApologyComment

You know how i feel

Handley Gill Limited, and its specialist data protection consultants, respond to the Information Commissioner’s (ICO’s) consultation on its draft ‘Employment practices and data protection: information about workers’ health guidance, which address the use of special category data concerning health in the context of maintaining sickness, injury and absence records, occupational health schemes, conducting medical examinations and testing (including drug testing) and other health monitoring.

In the Firing Line?

ICO25, 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.