UK Report March 2025

UK Report - Issue 138

01 March 2025

UK Report March 2025

Overview

Contents

PUBLISHER'S COVER NOTE

• Will the UK’s Data Bill weaken its GDPR core?

COMMENT

• Navigating new technologies and data privacy

LEAD STORIES

• ICO to develop codes of practice on Edtech and automated decision-making and AI
  Government amends the Data Bill at the House of Lords by adding new provisions on children’s data and direct marketing by charities. By Laura Linkomies
• Why 2025 is the year to refresh your marketing compliance
  Rebecca Cousin, Bryony Bacon and Rosie Wilson of Slaughter and May analyse the fast-evolving legal landscape for digital marketing and cookies

NEWS

• Subject access rights: The risks of adopting ‘too narrow an approach’

ANALYSIS

• Google’s Privacy Sandbox – a change in direction

MANAGEMENT

• The ICO audits the use of AI tools in recruitment
• AI deployment and transparency: A practical perspective
• Children’s privacy advocate: Information governance is still weak in the education sector

NEWS IN BRIEF

• ICO issues guidance on ‘consent or pay’
  
• The role of social media in promoting disinformation during the summer 2024 riots
  
• Research project looks at the impact of smartphones and social media on young people
  
• Adequacy granted for Isle of Man law enforcement data
  
• Government commits to fund regulators to enable AI growth
  
• ICO responds to government’s request for plans to secure economic growth
  
• Data protection fees increase
  
• High Court rules against Sky Betting & Gaming in data protection claim
  
• ICO issues updated guidance on processing employment records under the UK GDPR and DPA 2018
  
• Apple weakens encryption in the UK