UK Report - May 2025

Issue 139

Includes:

- Cross-border data transfers in turbulent times: The global impact of shifting policies
- ICO issued just 18 fines in 2024, and mostly under PECR
- EU delays the review of UK adequacy until the end of 2025
- Monitoring private communications under the Online Safety Act
- Lessons from the first ICO-approved UK GDPR Code of Conduct

International Report - April 2025

Issue 194

Incudes:

- Global data privacy laws 2025: 172 countries, 12 new in 2023/24
- The next chapter on the legal requirements for profiling
- Australia continues to push forward on online safety policy
- Ireland’s DP Commissioner Des Hogan: We expect more from large tech companies
- Biometrics at the crossroads of the AI Act and the GDPR

UK Report - March 2025

Issue 138

Includes:

- ICO to develop codes of practice on Edtech and automated decision-making and AI
- Why 2025 is the year to refresh your marketing compliance
- Subject access rights: The risks of adopting ‘too narrow an approach’
- Google’s Privacy Sandbox – a change in direction
- AI deployment and transparency

International Report - February 2025

Issue 193

- Non-material damages for data violations in Germany
- France: CNIL sanctions Orange with a hefty fine for ads appearing as emails
- Malaysia, Singapore revise data laws
- Australia limits facial recognition
- Cambodia’s draft data privacy law

UK Report - January 2025

Issue 137

Includes:

- UK and EU – Cookie rules to become the ‘law of everything’?
- The ICO’s consultation on generative AI: Key take-aways
- The new UK approach: Making international transfers easier?
- DUA Bill: Automated decision-making in the spotlight
- Privacy by Design through certification and standards

International Report - December 2024

Issue 192

Includes:

- The Digital Markets Act – data portability re-booted?
- Chile enacts new Data Protection Law
- Germany’s new Commissioner, update on laws, and future focus
- G7 DPAs and GPA further develop ‘Data Free Flow with Trust’
- ChatGPT, forget about me

UK Report - November 2024

Issue 136

Includes:

- Are data processors a new priority for the ICO?
- DMCC Act to make consumer protection fit for the digital age
- ICO: ‘We deal with fewer cases, but penalties come more quickly’
- Using personal data in AI projects

International Report - October 2024

Issue 191

Includes:

- Uber to appeal Dutch DPA fine of €290m on data transfers to US
- France: AI is a priority area for CNIL, the data regulator
- Maximum fines start enforcement of Thai data privacy law
- Malaysia’s minor modernisation
- Australia’s privacy reform Bill