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.

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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.

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U-turn?

Handley 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.

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