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
A High Court judge has voiced "bewilderment and amazement" at the state of a group data breach lawsuit, with the defendant company warning that allowing the case to go ahead could lead to a flood of hundreds of class actions.
28 February 2023
A High Court judge today voiced concerns about a low-value data protection and misuse of private information claim that is set to rack up more than £5 million in costs.
27 February 2023
The UK data regulator is assessing Meta’s decision to migrate UK users from its Irish subsidiary to its US parent.
27 February 2023
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