Cyber and Data Risk By Hans Allnutt This collection addresses the full spectrum of cyber security and data risk the Cybzeitger Riskt of Awaourd 2017age.
GC Collective By Ben Daniels The GC Collective collection offers insight and comment for General Counsels (GCs) and in-house legal teams.
European Commission publishes draft adequacy decision for the EU-US By Jade Kowalski On 13 December 2022, the European Commission published a draft adequacy decision for the EU-US Data Privacy Framework (the Draft Decision). If approved, EU organisations will have the ability to freely transfer personal data to US organisations who…
Top themes and takeaways from the 2021 ICO Conference By Jade Kowalski Yesterday (5th May 2021) the Information Commissioner’s Office (ICO) held its annual Data Protection Conference and provided a full day of content on a vast range of topics. Your DAC Beachcroft data protection and cyber team was dialled in and…
Data Transfers: Rules for the transfer window and beyond By Jade Kowalski The week commencing 9 November 2020 has been a very busy one for data protection practitioners, the likes of which haven’t been seen since the closing weeks of May 2018. You will no doubt be aware that the Schrems II judgment concluded that…
FCA conduct expectations of general insurance firms in the light of COVID-19 By Mathew Rutter The FCA, like the rest of us, is settling in to the new normal imposed by COVID-19. As part of this, the FCA’s guidance (there have been no material COVID-19 rule changes for general insurance as yet) has moved beyond the “Keep Calm and Carry On”…
Information Commissioner Office – enforcement action for nuisance calls and emails By Jade Kowalski The ICO continues to focus on Data Subject Access Requests (DSARs) and marketing calls and emails.
Cyber and Information Law Newsletter: Issue 1 - General Information By Michael McMillen Japan granted an Adequacy Decision On 23 January 2019, the European Commission adopted its adequacy decision on Japan, meaning that companies can now freely transfer personal data from the EU to Japan and vice versa. The European Commission’s…
Cyber and Information Law Newsletter: Issue 1 - Brexit By Charlie Christie Given the uncertainty around both the timing and form of Brexit, organisations whose businesses rely on cross-border transfers are understandably concerned that a no-deal or “hard” Brexit will impede processing overnight. Therefore there has been a…
Cyber and Information Law Newsletter: Issue 1 - Enforcement By Jade Kowalski French data protection regulator fines Google 50 million euros for GDPR breaches On 21 January 2019 the data protection regulator in France (Commission Nationale de l’Informatique et des libertés, known as the “ CNIL ”) imposed the first large…
Cyber and Information Law Newsletter: Issue 1 - Guidance New ICO guidance on controllers, processors and joint controller – what has changed? The ICO produced guidance in 2014 to assist organisations in determining whether they are a controller or a processor and it can be accessed here (“ Old Guidance…
Cyber and Information Law Newsletter: Issue 1 - Round up of 2019 By Jade Kowalski Welcome to the relaunch of our cyber and information law round up. In each edition we intend to cover the key guidance, enforcement action and hot topics of the moment. We also include sector spotlight round ups from our data protection experts in…