UK Report - Issue 146
09 July 2026
UK Report July 2026
Overview
Contents
COMMENTS
- UK forging its own path while partly shadowing EU policies
- UK follows Australia to ban social media for under 16s
LEAD STORIES
- When is AI ‘high-risk’? The EU’s draft guidelines
UK organisations operating globally must comply with the EU AI Act, which classifies AI into strict risk categories. Emma Erskine-Fox of TLT analyses the EU Commission’s draft guidelines. - Data protection documentation – and where it fails
Data protection documentation is a comfort blanket where the means have become the ends, argues Ralph O’Brien of Serious Privacy.
NEWS
ANALYSIS
- Are we moving towards a more permissive UK framework for life sciences research data?
- Beyond the OSA / DSA: Age assurance as a data privacy duty
- Using blockchain requires data protection by design
- Should the EU’s adequacy criteria for international data transfers be changed? If so, how?
MANAGEMENT
- Government to ban social media for under 16s
- Ofcom fines porn company £600,000 under OSA
- DRCF seeks views on tools to manage risks with generative and agentic AI
- ICO advises government on PECR changes
- John Edwards resigns, Paul Arnold takes on the responsibilities for now
- DUAA: Complaints procedure should be in place
- ICO advises on increasing AI cyber threats