Information Wrongs

Handley Gill’s specialist online safety consultants analyse the fine imposed on the provider of OnlyFans, its second fine against a video sharing platform provider for failure to comply with an information notice issued under Part 4B Communications Act 2003, the precursor to the Online Safety Act 2023 regulating video sharing platforms, examining common themes in Ofcom’s approach to enforcement having regard to its earlier fine on TikTok and, considering the implications for entities subject to the Online Safety Act 2023.

Stop the Clock

Handley Gill’s specialist data protection consultants analyse the ICO’s monetary penalty notice fining TikTok £12.7m over its processing of children’s personal data, the implications for providers of information society services and identify potential grounds for TikTok’s appeal.

Nicola Cain7 June 2023Data Protection, Personal Data, UK GDPR, Data Protection Enforcement, Monetary Penalty Notice, Children, Children's Data, Online Safety, Online Harms, Article 8 UK GDPR, Information Society Services, Article 5(1)(a) UK GDPR, Article 6(1)(a) UK GDPR, Conditions for consent, Consent, Data Protection Principles, Article 12 UK GDPR, Article 13 UK GDPR, Notice of Intent, Age Assurance, Age Verification, Information Commissioner, ICO, Ofcom, Children's Personal Data, Article 8(1) UK GDPR, Article 8(2) UK GDPR, Article 6(1)(b) UK GDPR, Privacy Notice, Privacy Policy, Schedule 2 Part 5 Data Protection Act 2018, Schedule 2 Part 5 Paragraph 26 Data Protection Act 2018, Special Purposes Exemption, Journalism Art or Literature, Journalism Exemption, Journalistic Academic Artistic and Literary Purposes, Human Rights, Human Rights Act 1998, Article 10 ECHR, Article 10 European Convention on Human Rights, Right to Freedom of Expression, Regulatory Action Policy, TikTok, ByteDanceComment

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.

Nicola Cain26 July 2022Conservative Party, Conservative Party Leader, Prime Minister, Liz Truss, Nadine Dorries, Secretary of State for Digital Culture Media and Sport, Foreign Secretary, TikTok, ByteDance, China, Rishi Sunak, Faisal Islam, BBC, National Security and Investment Act 2021, The National Security and Investment Act 2021 (Notifiable Acquisition) (Specification of Qualifying Entities) Regulations 2021, Defamation, Absolute Privilege, ONLINE SAFETY BILL, Data Protection and Digital Information Bill, Data Protection & Digital Information Bill, DPDI Bill, OFCOM, Information Commissioner, Information Commissioner's Office, Information Commission, ICO25, Fit and Proper, Video on Demand, VOD, Video Streaming Sites, Video Sharing Platforms, VSPs, International data transfers, Data Localisation, Prior Consultation, Statement of Strategic Priorities, Kemi Badenoch, CONTENT REGULATION, Platform Regulation, Technology Regulation, USER GENERATED CONTENT, UGCComment

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