Region: United Kingdom

The UK privacy regulator has reached an agreement with retailer Easylife, cutting a £1.35 million penalty (€1.54 million) over the company’s data processing conduct to £250,000 (€285,000).

16 March 2023

An activist has asked the ICO to force YouTube to delete algorithms trained on children’s data – but while the regulator has said it could theoretically force algorithmic deletion, such an order might exceed its powers.

15 March 2023

The latest edition of the UK’s new data protection bill may have been long-awaited, but it remains only the start of a process which is still open to further amendments and future expansion of the law’s scope.

13 March 2023

The UK Data and Marketing Association has welcomed clarifications provided by the new UK data bill, but expressed some concern over the extent of exemptions proposed.

10 March 2023

Initial reactions suggest businesses will broadly welcome the latest draft overhaul of the UK’s data protection framework, but concerns remain over how the EU will respond.

08 March 2023

A High Court judge has granted an injunction application against a convicted criminal and his wife who had threatened to illegally disclose a fintech company’s data to individuals they wrongly claimed were the victims of a data breach.

08 March 2023

John Edwards has confirmed that the ICO will challenge its recent defeat in the Experian case.

08 March 2023

A libel and data protection case that raised questions about the extraterritorial application of the GDPR has settled, according to a statement that came one day after businessman Walter Soriano failed again to stop the defendants from obtaining his US banking data.

06 March 2023

James Moss, director of legal services at the UK data protection authority, has joined Bird & Bird as a partner in its London privacy and data protection practice.

01 March 2023

An English court has ordered Orange Liberia to pay damages to a rival telecoms company that was hacked under the instruction of Orange Liberia staff, but awarded a fraction of the damages initially sought.

01 March 2023