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 Limited’s consultants consider the impact of the government’s announced delay to the promised post-Brexit sunset of all retained EU law by the end of 2023 and amendment of the Retained EU Law (Revocation and Reform Bill) on the UK’s data protection legislative framework.
Read MoreHandley 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.
Read MoreAs 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.
Read MoreConclusion of the Report stage of the Online Safety Bill in the House of Commons, which was scheduled for 20 July, has now been postponed until after the summer recess. Responding to the news, Conservative Party leadership candidate Kemi Badenoch described the Bill as being “in no fit state to become law”, raising the prospect that the Online Safety Bill may become safer, but for whom?
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