Cookies are Crumbling By Eleanor Ludlam, Tracking cookies are small text files that a website uses to collect and store data from its users,…
The UK’s Online Safety Bill: Where are we now? By Eleanor Ludlam, , Alexander Dimitrov Having survived the resignation of two Prime Ministers, the government’s proposed flagship internet…
Managed Service Providers to be brought within the scope of NIS Regulations By Eleanor Ludlam, On 30 November 2022, the UK government announced that Managed Service Providers (“ MSP ”) will be…
Cyber risk: 2022 in review By Eleanor Ludlam, The cyber landscape has been significantly affected by the geopolitical climate in 2022…
Royal Assent for the PSTI Act – security and resilience of connected consumer products in the UK and EU By Eleanor Ludlam, , In a world of connected products, weakness in one product has the potential to affect a household,…
Cyber Newsletter - December 2022 By Patrick Hill, Hans Allnutt, Eleanor Ludlam Welcome to the final edition of our Data and Cyber Bulletin in 2022, as we look at key events of…
Cyber Newsletter - November 2022 By Patrick Hill, Hans Allnutt, Eleanor Ludlam, Jade Kowalski, Charlotte Halford, Christopher Air On 10 November 2022, we held our fifth annual DACB Data Protection & Cyber Conference…
NIS breaches, the national cybersecurity strategy and law enforcement engagement By Eleanor Ludlam, When a country’s critical infrastructure is compromised, whether through a cyber attack or…
Cyber and Employment Law By Eleanor Ludlam, Nicola Geary We have seen an increase in the number and sophistication of threat actors carrying out ransomware…
Supply Chain Breaches By Eleanor Ludlam, Charlotte Halford, Patrick Hill In the modern world, most organisations rely on a complex network of suppliers and vendors in order…
UK Legislative Developments and the Impact on Cyber By Eleanor Ludlam, Much has been written about the UK’s data protection legislation reform agenda and its apparent…
The New Zealand approach to compensation claims – will the UK follow suit? By Eleanor Ludlam During the ICO’s annual Data Protection Practitioners’ Conference in July 2022, the Information…
Cyber Newsletter - September 2022 By Patrick Hill, Hans Allnutt, Eleanor Ludlam Welcome to the September edition of the Data And Cyber Bulletin…
The Data Protection and Digital Information Bill: An Overview By Jade Kowalski, Charlotte Halford, Christopher Air, Sophie Devlin, Eleanor Ludlam, On 18 July 2022 the Data Protection and Digital Information Bill (the DPDI) was laid before…
Data And Cyber Bulletin - August 2022 By Patrick Hill, Hans Allnutt, Eleanor Ludlam Welcome to the August edition of our Data And Cyber Bulletin.
Online Safety Bill at a standstill pending appointment of a new Prime Minister By Eleanor Ludlam, July was expected to be the month where long-awaited developments for the UK’s Online Safety Bill…
Physical risk in cyber-attacks: Lloyds outlines potential impact to businesses in a new report By Eleanor Ludlam, Alexander Dimitrov In a new report , published in conjunction with the Cambridge Centre for Risk Studies on 30 June…
Stuffing Dunkin Donuts and Uber Attacks - New Guidance Released on “Credential Stuffing” Incidents By Eleanor Ludlam, Data protection authorities from Canada, Gibraltar, Jersey, Switzerland, Turkey and the UK, have…
Marriott Group Struck by Third Data Breach By Eleanor Ludlam, In the latest string of data breaches striking the international hotel group, Marriott has…
Data And Cyber Bulletin - July 2022 By Hans Allnutt, Patrick Hill, Eleanor Ludlam Welcome to the July edition of our Data And Cyber Bulletin, with fascinating content covering the…
Top themes and takeaways from the 2022 ICO Conference By Jade Kowalski, Charlotte Halford, Christopher Air, Eleanor Ludlam, Hans Allnutt, , , , , Introduction On 19 th July 2022 the Information Commissioner’s Office ( ICO ) held its annual…
Ransoms - to pay or not to pay, that is the question … By Patrick Hill, Eleanor Ludlam, Hans Allnutt To take some of the headlines at face value which followed the publication of the ICO and NCSC…
Data And Cyber Bulletin - June 2022 By Hans Allnutt, Patrick Hill, Eleanor Ludlam Welcome to the June edition of our D ata A nd C yber B ulletin, in which we share insight on…
Spanish DPA issues its highest fine to date confirming the upward trend in fines imposed: Google LLC is the latest fined €10 million By Eleanor Ludlam, May 2022 saw a tale of two firsts for the Spanish Data Protection Agency (“ AEPD ”) with its…
Zoom - Class actions go international By Eleanor Ludlam, Just when Zoom thought that the media spotlight had dimmed on its data privacy scandal which hit…
Data And Cyber Bulletin - MAY 2022 By Hans Allnutt, Patrick Hill, Eleanor Ludlam Welcome to the May edition of our Data And Cyber Bulletin.
Facial recognition: Clearview AI fined more than £7.5m by the ICO By Eleanor Ludlam, On 23 May 2022, the UK’s Information Commissioner (the “ ICO ”) confirmed that it had concluded its…
EDPB adopts guidelines on the calculation of fines under the GDPR By Eleanor Ludlam, On 16 May 2022, the European Data Protection Board (“ EDPB ”) announced adopted Guidelines which…
Cybersecurity of Smart Technologies – New Product Security and Telecommunications Infrastructure Bill By Eleanor Ludlam, In the Queen’s Speech delivered on 10 May 2022 at the House of Commons by HRH The Prince of Wales,…
Queen's Speech 2022 - Data Reform Bill By Eleanor Ludlam, Charlotte Halford, In the Queen’s Speech delivered on 10 May 2022 at the House of Commons by HRH The Prince of Wales, …
Cookie Bite By Eleanor Ludlam, European Data Protection Authorities (“DPAs”) have issued some headline grabbing cookie-related…
Swedish DPA Audit Results in Klarna Fine By Eleanor Ludlam, The Swedish Authority for Privacy Protection (“SDPA”) has issued an administrative fine of SEK…
Data And Cyber Bulletin - April 2022 By Hans Allnutt, Patrick Hill, Eleanor Ludlam Welcome to the April edition of our Data And Cyber Bulletin.
New ICO Guidance on Ransomware and Data Protection Compliance By Eleanor Ludlam, Alexander Dimitrov Earlier this month, the UK’s Data Protection Authority, the Information Commissioner’s Office (the…
Santander Bank Polska Ordered to Issue Data Subject Notifications and Subjected to EUR 120,000 Fine By Eleanor Ludlam, Background In Poland, the Social Insurance Institution ( Zakład Ubezpieczeń Społecznych , “ ZUS…
Data And Cyber Bulletin - March 2022 By Patrick Hill, Hans Allnutt, Eleanor Ludlam Welcome to the March edition of our Data And Cyber Bulletin.
Data And Cyber Bulletin - February 2022 By Patrick Hill, Hans Allnutt, Eleanor Ludlam Welcome to February’s edition of the Data and Cyber Bulletin with timely content from Hans Allnutt…
High Court Not The Appropriate Forum for Low-Value Data Protection Claims By Eleanor Ludlam, , In the recent decision of William Stadler v Currys Group Ltd [2022] EWHC 160 (QB) , the High…
Data And Cyber Bulletin - January 2022 By Patrick Hill, Hans Allnutt, Eleanor Ludlam We are delighted to share this month’s Data and Cyber Bulletin, with articles covering the recently…
Paying the Price for Cookie Indulgence: CNIL impose a combined €210million fine over cookie consent controls By Eleanor Ludlam, French Data Protection Authority, CNIL, has kick-started 2022 issuing a whopping €150million fine…
Court of appeal case addresses territorial application of GDPR By Eleanor Ludlam, The Court of Appeal has delivered its first decision on the territorial scoping provisions of the…
Housebuilder Tip of the Month: A Review of the 2021 Boom in GDPR Fines By Eleanor Ludlam, When Viviane Reding (MEP and former vice-president of the European commission) proposed the GDPR in…
The Rise of Cookies Litigation (and How to Avoid It) By Eleanor Ludlam, Charlotte Halford, Cookie litigation is on the rise, and it appears that all organisations of any size, sector and…
Compensation Claims By Hans Allnutt, Patrick Hill, Eleanor Ludlam, On 6 December 2021, at our annual Data Protection & Cyber Conference, Hans Allnutt, Patrick…
Data And Cyber Bulletin - December 2021 By Patrick Hill, Hans Allnutt, Eleanor Ludlam Welcome to the December edition of our Data And Cyber Bulletin.
Breaking News: Google’s £3bn Supreme Court Reprieve By Patrick Hill, Hans Allnutt, Jade Kowalski, Eleanor Ludlam The Supreme Court has this morning handed down i ts judgment in the matter of Lloyd v Google LLC…
Data And Cyber Bulletin - October 2021 By Patrick Hill, Hans Allnutt, Eleanor Ludlam Welcome to the October edition of our Data and Cyber Bulletin.
Quick read: Banksy’s Vulnerability and the Mysterious NFT By Eleanor Ludlam, When a global artist like Banksy appeared to have advertised a link on his official homepage in…
Data And Cyber Bulletin - September 2021 By Patrick Hill, Hans Allnutt, Eleanor Ludlam Welcome to the September edition of our Data and Cyber Bulletin.
Data And Cyber Bulletin - August 2021 By Patrick Hill, Hans Allnutt, Eleanor Ludlam Welcome to the August edition of our Data And Cyber Bulletin.
Chambers Squares Up to Persons Unknown By Eleanor Ludlam For those of us specialising in cyber law, we are used to guiding clients through the most…
Data And Cyber Bulletin - July 2021 By Patrick Hill, Hans Allnutt, Eleanor Ludlam Welcome to the July edition of our Data And Cyber Bulletin…
Data And Cyber Bulletin - June 2021 By Patrick Hill, Hans Allnutt, Eleanor Ludlam Welcome to the June edition of our Data and Cyber Bulletin with articles covering cookie…
Cookies Crumbling – The Rise of Cookie Litigation By Eleanor Ludlam, Charlotte Halford Well-known privacy group, nyob has issued more than 500 complaints against companies from 33…
Draft Online Safety Bill: Friend or Foe? By Eleanor Ludlam, There have been mounting concerns as to the potential harm which the internet can cause to adults…
Data And Cyber Bulletin - May 2021 By Patrick Hill, Hans Allnutt, Eleanor Ludlam Welcome to the May edition of our Data And Cyber Bulletin…
Top themes and takeaways from the 2021 ICO Conference By Jade Kowalski, Charlotte Halford, Eleanor Ludlam, Yesterday (5th May 2021) the Information Commissioner’s Office (ICO) held its annual Data…
“Walking bar codes”, Swedish Police and the use of Facial Recognition Technology By Eleanor Ludlam The Dutch Data Protection Authority (“DPA”) issued a formal warning to a Dutch supermarket for use…
Data And Cyber Bulletin - April 2021 By Patrick Hill, Hans Allnutt, Eleanor Ludlam We are delighted to welcome you to the first edition of our monthly Data And Cyber Bulletin…
Brexit and Breaches: A tale of two fines By Patrick Hill, Eleanor Ludlam Much has been written about the impact of Brexit on data protection matters…
Morrisons Reigns Supreme By Khurram Shamsee, Hans Allnutt, Eleanor Ludlam The Supreme Court has today upheld Morrisons’ appeal and ruled that it is not vicariously liable…