The ePrivacy Regulation finally jumps out of the frying pan - but into the fire?
The GDPR hasn't been the only EU privacy reform on the lips of politicians and businesses in recent years. The contentious ePrivacy Regulation, intended to replace the 2002 ePrivacy Directive and sit as "lex specialis" (i.e. governing the same... Read more
Have you tried the ICO’s new AI toolkit?
The Information Commissioner’s Office (ICO) is urging all organisations considering using data analytics on personal data to look at its new toolkit. It aims to help organisations build data protection compliance into the start of any data... Read more
Mass claims for data breaches: perhaps a change of heart by the Government but don’t forget Lloyd v Google. [cyber]
The UK Government has published its response to last year’s consultation reviewing the representative action provisions in s187 of the Data Protection Act (DPA) 2018. DCMS consultation As reported in my earlier post on the consultation, last... Read more
The Kalifa Review of UK Fintech: UK Fintech’s difficult second decade?
The Kalifa Review of UK Fintech: UK Fintech’s difficult second decade? An independent review on key priority areas for the UK Fintech industry, commissioned by the Chancellor at Budget 2020 and prepared by Ron Kalifa OBE, was published this... Read more
Not on target: Why US products on Amazon.com do not infringe UK and EU trade marks
Amazon is a global e-commerce phenomenon with millions of customers across 19 country marketplaces. The global nature of Amazon invites the inevitable trade mark law questions: How does the territorial nature of trade mark protection work with... Read more
EU publishes draft adequacy decisions for transfers of personal data to the UK
The EU Commission has published two draft adequacy decisions for transfers of personal data to the UK, one under the GDPR and the other for the Law Enforcement Directive. This will be welcome news to many UK and EU businesses grappling with the... Read more
Data privacy and M&A: the issues you really can’t ignore
We recently hosted a webinar as part of PL&B’s 33rd Annual International Conference on data privacy and M&A. During the session, we talked the audience through the key privacy compliance issues that we have come across. One of the first... Read more
3 month reprieve for UK based .eu domain registrants - EURid
As we warned in an earlier Lens post here, some UK entities who had registered some 142,000 UK based .eu domain names had a potentially big problem on their hands. The problem? From 1 January 2021 organisations who were established solely in the... Read more
The Confidence Game: What Trailfinders means for recipients of potentially confidential information
Are you confident about your confidentiality obligations? It’s every employer’s worst nightmare: employee leaves a company to go work for a rival company; the rival company encourages the employee to bring client contacts, client contracts... Read more
Pay to play: Judge rules lawyers leading group action against British Airways cannot recover costs of advertising.
In group actions, publicity often pulls in more plaintiffs. TV advertising has long been used by claimant firms in the United States to recruit thousands of claimants for class action cases. Its recent appearance in the UK suggests that claimant... Read more
