Following the announcement of the snap General Election to take place on 04 July 2024, and the launch of the major parties’ manifesto pledges during London Tech Week 2024, Handley Gill analyses the manifesto pledges of the major UK-wide political parties and their implications for cyber security, data protection, online safety, artificial intelligence (AI), digital markets, content regulation, reputation management, open justice, access to information, human rights and ESG.
Read MoreThis 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’.
Read MoreApril 2023 edition of Handley Gill’s monthly digital newsletter, 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 and digital markets regulation. Presented in a readily digestible digital format, those who prefer the traditional newsletter format can export the newsletter to pdf.
Read MoreThe 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.
Read MoreIn 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.
Read MoreWithout intervention by DCMS, the Retained EU Law (Revocation and Reform) Bill will decimate the UK’s data protection law 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 MoreUnofficial 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.
Read MoreICO25, 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.
Read MoreFormer Chancellor and Conservative Party leadership candidate Rishi Sunak’s promise that one of his top priorities will be the removal of the burdens of the GDPR need not be interpreted as a significant departure from the proposals for the Data Reform Bill set out in the Government’s response to the Data: A New Direction consultation, but it will rely on the European Commission adopting equality of approach and not seeking to punish the UK for Brexit.
Read MoreHandley Gill summarises the Government's publication of its response to the ‘Data: A New Direction’ consultation, previewing the content of the forthcoming Data Reform Bill, which was proposed in ‘The Benefits of Brexit’ policy paper and formally announced in the Queen’s Speech 2022.
Read MoreThe Government has today (10 May 2022) announced in the Queen’s Speech that further to its consultation ‘Data: A New Direction’ it will bring forward legislation in this Parliamentary session to reform the UK’s data protection law (the UK GDPR, Data Protection Act 2018 and Privacy and Electronic Communications Regulations) which has been adopted virtually wholesale from the European General Data Protection Regulation (GDPR).
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