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Website design: ICO and CMA call for an end to harmful architecture

Website design: ICO and CMA call for an end to harmful architecture

Earlier this month, the Information Commissioner's Office, alongside the Competitions and Markets Authority, jointly issued a call for an end to websi ...

ICO guides companies on the use of privacy enhancing technologies

ICO guides companies on the use of privacy enhancing technologies

In an increasingly data driven and technologically advanced world, a lot of the focus (at least from lawyers and regulators) is on mitigating the risk ...

ChatGPT: European regulators take chatbots to task

ChatGPT: European regulators take chatbots to task

The proliferation of the use of ChatGPT has recently generated interest from European data protection authorities who are concerned with how user data ...

Data Protection and Digital Information (No.2) Bill: An Overview

Data Protection and Digital Information (No.2) Bill: An Overview

On 8 March 2023,  the Data Protection and Digital Information (No.2) Bill (“DPDI No.2 Bill”) was laid before Parliament. The aim of the Bill remains t ...

The ethics of AI: The Cyber Risks posed by Chat GPT

The ethics of AI: The Cyber Risks posed by Chat GPT

AI language models (a type of artificial intelligence that is designed to process and understand human language) like Chat GPT have the potential to r ...

ICO Tech Horizons Report – what does it mean for the use of emerging technology?

ICO Tech Horizons Report – what does it mean for the use of emerging technology?

The Information Commissioner’s Office (ICO) published its first ‘Tech Horizons Report’ (the Report) on 15 December 2022. In this article, we provide a ...

Cyber Newsletter - November 2022

Cyber Newsletter - November 2022

On 10 November 2022, we held our fifth annual DACB Data Protection & Cyber Conference. We brought together 18 experts from our team and welcomed 5 ...

Data protection in emerging technologies: Blockchain

Data protection in emerging technologies: Blockchain

Blockchain and associated distributed ledger technologies (DLTs) are increasing in prominence and use across a number of sectors – including healthcar ...

The EU Data Package

The EU Data Package

On 19 February 2020 the European Commission announced its ‘European Strategy for Data’1 which outlined the EU’s five year plan to shape its data econo ...

The Data Protection and Digital Information Bill: An Overview

The Data Protection and Digital Information Bill: An Overview

On 18 July 2022 the Data Protection and Digital Information Bill (the DPDI) was laid before Parliament, coming swiftly after the Government published ...