UK Report - Issue 139
02 May 2025
UK Report May 2025
Overview
Contents
PUBLISHER'S BLOG
COMMENT
LEAD STORIES
- Cross-border data transfers in turbulent times: The global impact of shifting policies
Nicola Fulford and Katie McMullan of Hogan Lovells offer their personal views on what the UK’s new risk-based approach, means for its competitiveness and EU data adequacy. - ICO issued just 18 fines in 2024, and mostly under PECR
Does John Edwards’ approach to ICO enforcement safeguard the UK economy, or reduce the possibility of dissuasive penalty for data harms? By Ralph O’Brien of REINBO Consulting.
NEWS
- EU delays the review of UK adequacy until the end of 2025
- Protecting children online requires a risk-based approach
ANALYSIS
- Monitoring private communications under the Online Safety Act
- Big Tech: Major cloud providers in the firing line?
MANAGEMENT
- Overcoming hurdles to effective data protection training
- Cracking the Code: Lessons from the first ICO-approved UK GDPR Code of Conduct
- Sensitive data at stake as 23andme files for bankruptcy
- ICO says targeted advertising is direct marketing
- £3 million fine on software group confirmed
- Private members AI bill passes first reading at House of Lords
- DSIT consults on data broking and national security
- DSIT and Anthropic agree on AI plans
- Government issues cyber security guidance
- DMA publishes updated Code for data and marketing industry
- ICO says it will contribute to economic growth