UK Report March 2020

UK Report - Issue 108

13 March 2020

Overview

Contents

PUBLISHER'S COVER NOTE

• The UK’s independent data protection policy

COMMENT

• Negotiations on EU-UK future relationship start in Brussels

LEAD STORIES

• UK seeks an independent data protection policy
  Full alignment with the GDPR cannot be taken for granted any longer as Boris Johnson, the Prime Minister, steers away from commitments made in the Withdrawal Agreement. By Laura Linkomies.
• ICO publishes final online Age Appropriate Design Code
  DPIAs, high level privacy settings and switching profiling “off” by default are aspects required by this code, subject to Parliamentary approval. By Ben Slinn of Baker & McKenzie.

NEWS

• Defining data ethics
• DMA works towards a code of conduct for the marketing sector

ANALYSIS

• What has been the ICO’s attitude to GDPR enforcement?
• ICO looks at bad direct marketing
• Data protection and anti-money laundering: Irreconcilable?

MANAGEMENT

• Governance and data protection – a charity’s perspective
• Confronting the challenges of vendor management in biometrics
• Introducing biometric identification
• Biometrics: Recommendations and questions to the ICO
• GDPR data protection icons

NEWS IN BRIEF

• Regulating online harms
• Monitoring live facial recognition
• 193 million phone calls lead to maximum fine
• Group action against Dixons Carphone Warehouse
• ICO warns FCA-authorised firms and insolvency practitioners
• ICO fines Cathay Pacific
• CDEI publishes review on online targeting