On 15 September 2021, the Personal Data Protection Authority (DPA) published Recommendations on the Protection of Personal Data in…

Modern Privacy Regulations Forge A New Path in the Middle East

The EU General Data Protection Regulation (GDPR) came into force on 25 May 2018. The UK Data Protection Act (DPA) took effect on the same day because it is meant to be read in conjunction with the GDPR.

Currently, there is a lot of confusion on the DPA…

This update highlights some of the international data protection issues that caught our attention, and the attention of our clients, over the summer.

Tomorrow EU and US counterparts will sit down together for the first meeting of the EU-US Trade and Technology Council (TTC). This is a new transatlantic 'regulatory cooperation' effort with a special focus on the tech sector. Much is at stake in these discussions:…

In two reports on draft EU legislation on artificial intelligence, the European Economic and Social Committee (EESC) calls for an all-out ban on social scoring in the EU and for a complaint and redress mechanism for people who have suffered harm from an AI…

Orders annual data reviews to ensure compliance with rules on how to handle data that's terrifying to lose, or merely scary

On 24 September, the Hamburg Commissioner for Data Protection and Freedom of Information issued a GDPR fine of little over €900,000 to Vattenfall

The General Data Protection Regulation (GDPR)’s 984.47 million euro fines (more than $1.14 billion) in the third quarter of 2021 was almost 20 times

Big tech now encourages us to monitor everything from our heart rate to our glucose levels via smartphones and watches. How much privacy have we lost to the promise of self improvement - and is it time to stop?

The European Parliament has backed a moratorium on facial recognition for law-enforcement purposes - bypassing attempts to torpedo the ban on potential mass surveillance.

The European Parliament has voted to back a total ban on biometric mass surveillance. AI-powered remote surveillance technologies such as facial recognition have huge implications for fundamental rights and freedoms like privacy but are already creeping into…

The Data Protection bill which was first drafted back in 2019, has received approval from the cabinet of ministers.

Since the CJEU declared the Privacy Shield agreement invalid with its Schrems II ruling, the EU and the USA have been working on a replacement agreement. This is intended to enable companies to transfer data between EU countries and the USA., thereby creating…

To combat discrimination and ensure the right to privacy, MEPs demand strong safeguards when artificial intelligence tools are used in law enforcement.