UK Report September 2022

UK Report - Issue 123

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Overview

Contents

PUBLISHER'S COVER NOTE

• New UK Prime Minister provides an opportunity for fresh perspectives

COMMENT

• New UK DP Bill starts its passage in Parliament

LEADING STORIES

• DP and Digital Information Bill: Organisations will face mostly cosmetic changes
  Alison Deighton of HelloDPO assesses the practicalities of the UK Data Protection Reform.
• The regulation of AI in the UK
  The lighter touch regulation of AI in the UK, and arguably drastic differences from EU plans may pose issues that require further attention from the UK government in due course. By Gareth Oldale and Georgía Philippou at TLT.

NEWS

• Memo to the Minister
• Ransomware threat
• DPAs in the pandemic

ANALYSIS

• The outlook for scientific research

MANAGEMENT

• ICO advises ‘DeepTech’ company

FOI

• ICO steps up its FOI work
• Government’s use of WhatsApp

NEWS IN BRIEF

• Illegal access to data by staff
• Children’s Code enforcement
• Increasing AI readiness
• ICO: Human rights paramount
• DCMS claims DP Bill changes would save billions in compliance costs
• ICO seeks views on anonymisation
• ICO and Ofcom to study end-to-end encryption
• Large UK enterprises have good cyber-security
• DCMS issues sandbox report
• UK-US CLOUD Act Agreement
• Data security incidents increase
• Covid workplace information
• Jersey: DP awareness increases
• ABI consults on its UK GDPR Code
• Privacy-friendly innovation