Articles - DAC Beachcroft

Articles

enero 2022

Paying the Price for Cookie Indulgence: CNIL impose a combined €210million fine over cookie consent controls

Paying the Price for Cookie Indulgence: CNIL impose a combined €210million fine over cookie consent controls

French Data Protection Authority, CNIL, has kick-started 2022 issuing a whopping €150million fine to Google (google.fr and youtube.com users) and €60m ...

How Credit and Dark Web Monitoring Can Help in the Event of a Data Breach

How Credit and Dark Web Monitoring Can Help in the Event of a Data Breach

In today’s digital economy, data is more valuable than ever. It can help businesses better understand their customers and deliver the fast, easy, safe ...

Lloyd’s publish new war risks exclusion clauses for cyber operations

Lloyd’s publish new war risks exclusion clauses for cyber operations

Defining war, and especially the risks arising from it, are notoriously difficult tasks . Factor in to that challenge the ambiguous and shadowy cyber ...

Court of appeal case addresses territorial application of GDPR

Court of appeal case addresses territorial application of GDPR

The Court of Appeal has delivered its first decision on the territorial scoping provisions of the GDPR in the case of, Soriano v Forensic News LLC &am ...

Housebuilder Tip of the Month: A Review of the 2021 Boom in GDPR Fines

Housebuilder Tip of the Month: A Review of the 2021 Boom in GDPR Fines

When Viviane Reding (MEP and former vice-president of the European commission) proposed the GDPR in 2012, she said that, “reform will restore trust in ...

LMA guidance to handling a ransomware claim incident

LMA guidance to handling a ransomware claim incident

In the wake of the surge of ransomware attacks in recent years hitting the London and international insurance markets, the Lloyd’s Market Association ...

Inspirational or aspirational? The Highway Code changes have arrived

Inspirational or aspirational? The Highway Code changes have arrived

The overarching principle of the updated Highway Code is to make our roads safer for all, expecting all users to treat other road users with considera ...

Baker v Hayward (2022) - The Defendant is Entitled to Know

Baker v Hayward (2022) - The Defendant is Entitled to Know

In the appeal of Baker v Hayward (2022), Her Honour Judge Walden-Smith allowed the appeal of the defendant against a finding that the claimant fitted ...

Top 10 conduct risks for UK asset managers in 2022

Top 10 conduct risks for UK asset managers in 2022

Heightened regulatory scrutiny upon the asset management sector is expected to continue throughout 2022, not least because the FCA itself remains unde ...

A major milestone along the road to a self-driving future

A major milestone along the road to a self-driving future

The Law Commission of England & Wales and the Scottish Law Commission have released their joint report on automated vehicles following a detailed ...