Close collaboration: operational resilience and cyber resilience.
Last week the Financial Conduct Authority (FCA), the Prudential Regulation Authority (PRA) and the Bank of England published long-awaited policy statements and supervisory materials setting out their final rules and guidance on operational... Read more
Room for improvement: Proposals to strengthen draft European digital regulation.
Since publication in December 2020, the European Commission’s proposed new rules for digital gatekeepers (the Digital Markets Act, or “DMA”) have been hotly debated in the EU Parliament (for our analysis of the proposals, see here). A new... Read more
How are your competitors managing their cyber risk? Government publishes 2021 cyber breaches survey.
The latest Government Cyber Security Breaches Survey shows that the risk level for businesses is potentially higher than ever under COVID-19. Businesses are finding it harder to administer cyber security measures during the pandemic as... Read more
Why diversity and inclusion are matters of fairness: understanding regulatory expectations through the lens of product and service design.
My colleague, Ben Goldstein, wrote about why diversity and inclusion are regulatory issues following a number of high profile speeches at the UK Financial Conduct Authority (FCA). Nikhil Rathi (CEO of the FCA) explained that a lack of diversity... Read more
Linking and copyright: one size fits all (for now).
Linking has always been controversial, as it sits at the intersection between copyright law and the reality and functioning of the internet. Hyperlinks ‘web the Web’, and there is a tricky balance to be struck between the interests of... Read more
The return of the determined intruder: the ICO’s latest thinking on anonymisation and personal data.
The ICO acknowledged last week that 'questions about when data is personal data or anonymous information are some of the most challenging issues organisations face' as they announced plans to update their anonymisation guidance. While... Read more
Would you use the ICO’s AI risk mitigation toolkit? Have your say now.
For some time it has been acknowledged that the potential benefits of implementing AI systems are accompanied with many risks. When adopting AI, it is important for organisations to understand, quantify and mitigate these risks and to ensure that... Read more
All for one, and one for all – regulators co-ordinate in the digital space.
The Digital Regulation Cooperation Forum (DRCF), whose members include the ICO, CMA, Ofcom and (from April) the FCA , has published its 2021/22 workplan. The plan signals a new approach to coordinated regulation across digital and online... Read more
