UK Report March 2022

UK Report - Issue 120

07 March 2022

UK Report March 2022

Overview

Contents

PUBLISHER'S COVER NOTE

• UK Children’s Code sets the pace as one of several international initiatives

COMMENT

• Information is key and data protection a human right

LEADING STORIES

• The future for low-value data breach claims
  Not every data breach is worth High Court time – a relief for the companies involved. By Katie Hewson, Olivia Fraser and Kate Ackland of Stephenson Harwood LLP.
• UK: Data protection shake-up looks certain
  No clarity over details yet but change is coming in one form or another – and fast. By Laura Linkomies.

ANALYSIS

• No end to the end-to-end encryption discussion
• Supreme Court: Individuals have reasonable expectation of privacy until charged
• Interplay between the EU Clinical Trials Regulation and the GDPR

LEGISLATION

• UK law reform – Data: A New Direction – implications for direct marketing and marketers

NEWS IN BRIEF

• Data transfer documents set to enter into force
• ICO expands anonymisation guide
• Data breaches down, cyber incidents up
• ICO consults on research provisions in the UK GDPR and the DP Act
• Government issues cyber strategy and consults on legislative change
• Government guidance on immigration exemption
• ICO issues CCTV and surveillance guidance
• Privacy policies longer, harder to understand