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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 Legitimate Interests
Every little bit of data helps?
Every little bit of data helps?

While the sale of marketing lists is generally prohibited, as retail insolvencies increase Handley Gill’s specialist data protection consultants analyse the Information Commissioner’s laissez-faire approach to the purchase and use of the CRM databases of companies in administration and consider the opportunity this offers to administrators and potential purchasers of distressed businesses by reference to the recent case studies of Tesco’s purchase of Paperchase’s assets and the sale of The Body Shop’s assets.  

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Nicola CainData Protection, Personal Data, GDPR, General Data Protection Regulation, UK GDPR, UK GENERAL DATA PROTECTION REGULATION, PRIVACY AND ELECTRONIC COMMUNICATIONS REGULATIONS, PECR, MARKETING, Direct Marketing, Email Marketing, Insolvency, Distress Business, Administration, Administrators, Mergers and Acquisitions, M&A, Corporate Law, Asset Sale, Asset Purchase, Share Purchase, Share Sale, Retail, IP, IPR, Intellectual Property, Intellectual Property Rights, CRM, CRM Database, ICO, Information Commissioner, Information Commissioner's Office, Data Protection Enforcement, Lawful Basis for Processing, ARTICLE 6 UK GDPR, Article 6(1)(f) UK GDPR, Legitimate Interests, Consent, Article 6(1)(a) UK GDPR, Distressed BusinessComment
You Shall EU
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.

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Scraping together a lawful basis
Scraping together a lawful basis

As the Information Commissioner’s Office consults on the lawful basis for web scraping by AI developers to train generative AI models under the UK GDPR, Handley Gill’s specialist data protection and artificial intelligence (AI) consultants comment on the issues arising and share their consultation response.

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