UK Report - Issue 136
30 October 2024
UK Report November 2024
Overview
Contents
PUBLISHER'S COVER NOTE
COMMENT
LEAD STORIES
- Are data processors a new priority for the ICO?
Taylor Wessing’s Debbie Heywood and Mary Rendle look at the impact of the UK ICO’s provisional decision to issue its first processor fine. - DMCC Act to make consumer protection fit for digital age
Companies face new transparency requirements and turnover-linked fines. By Rebecca Cousin, Richard McDonnell and Richard Barker of Slaughter and May.
NEWS
- Wish lists for new data protection framework
- ICO: ‘We deal with fewer cases, but penalties come more quickly’
MANAGEMENT
- Stowaways or allies? Risks of using AI transcription in meetings
- Making a career in data protection
- Employer discriminated because of pre-employment Google search
- Using personal data in AI projects: Overcoming the challenges
- Cyber Security Bill not until next year
- Private member’s AI Bill
- ICO intervenes on LinkedIn and Meta plans for AI training
- Government proposes to increase data protection fees
- DSIT launches Regulatory Innovation Office
- ICO issues data controller study
- UK signs Council of Europe AI Treaty
- ICO launches audit framework to aid organisations’ compliance
- DSIT urges Ofcom to implement Online Safety Act rapidly
- National Cyber Security Centre issues guidance on communicating with stakeholders
- ICO: Use of cookies and targeted online ads one of top priorities
- DSIT issues a report on cookies
- UK and others sign statement on children’s age assurance
- Cyprus hosts BIIDPA islands’ meeting