UK Report September 2023

UK Report - Issue 129

13 September 2023

Overview

Contents

PUBLISHER'S COVER NOTE

• Economic factors are increasingly the focus for many privacy managers and lawyers

COMMENT

• Expect developments in AI governance and UK-US transfers

LEAD STORIES

• One-third of complaints to the ICO from property, finance and health sectors
  ICO’s few very large fines distract attention from its wide range of advice and informal action in 99% of cases, and policy work in new areas. By Laura Linkomies.
• UK-US data transfers – does the Irish DPC’s Meta decision make a difference?
  Debbie Heywood and Matt Quezada of Taylor Wessing look at the impact of the recent Meta decision in the context of the EU-US Data Protection Framework, and what that means for UK-US data transfers.

ANALYSIS

• Neurotechnology, the next frontier
• Third appeal against the ICO’s first UK GDPR fine

MANAGEMENT

• Working with non-executive directors on AI privacy issues
• The evolution of the data lawyer
• Reporting diversity, equity and inclusion metrics within the GDPR

FREEDOM OF INFORMATION

• ICO steps up FoI enforcement

NEWS IN BRIEF

• AI education initiatives
• ICO statement on Worldcoin
• Electoral Commission data breach
• Serious data breach at NI police
• Norfolk & Suffolk police data breach
• ICO: 96% happy with audits
• ICO and CMA: Put the user at the heart of your design choices
• ICO consults on biometric guidance
• ICO reacts to Meta consent news
• MPs report on connected devices
• Guernsey ‘adequate’ for law enforcement data