UK Report - Issue 116

16 July 2021

Overview

Contents

PUBLISHER'S COVER NOTE

• Codes of conduct can build a bridge between the UK and the EU

COMMENT

• UK adequacy is essential – so let’s keep it

LEADING STORIES

• UK receives data adequacy but under a watchful EU Commission
  The UK is confident that its own adequacy decisions will not cause a threat for UK EU adequacy, or lower its data protection standards. Laura Linkomies reports.
• Amex’s £90k marketing fine: Risk-based approach or bold interpretation of PECR?
  Only three complaints to the ICO were enough to trigger an investigation. Marta Dunphy-Moriel and Alexander Dittel of Deloitte Legal analyse the case.

ANALYSIS

• The intended and unintended consequences of paying with data
• Missing safeguards for NHS Digital’s medical records database
• The hot potato of anonymisation

MANAGEMENT

• Getting people to care about DP
• Using personal emails for business

FOI

• Call for Act to be strengthened

NEWS IN BRIEF

• BA settles DP group action
• Immigration Exemption ruling
• Online Safety Bill criticised
• Views sought on joining CPTTP
• ICO issues opinion on use of live facial recognition
• UK-Australia deal on trade and data
• Digital trade talks with Singapore
• Court judgement on interception of communications data
• ICO works on adtech, data broking and nuisance calls
• National Data Strategy Forum
• Next steps for Smart Data
• ICO annual tracking research
• CDEI studies online choices
• Taskforce proposes radical changes to the UK DP framework
• ICO and CMA sign agreement