Today the Supreme Court handed down its decision in Wm Morrisons Supermarkets Plc v Various Claimants [2020] UKSC 12, bringing to its conclusion a case which had the potential to alter significantly the data protection and cyber security litigation and class action landscape. The headline news is that Morrisons has been found not to be … Read more
In anticipation of the GDPR, various guidance has been published by the Article 29 Working Party, the body of national EU data regulators. Of most relevance in the cyber context is the guidance on personal data breach notifications; the Article 29 Working Party issued its initial guidance in October 2017 and published a final version … Read more
With increased outsourcing to the cloud or other third party external service providers and an increasingly complex supply chain for businesses, modern strategies for leveraging data can bring significant business efficiencies, competitive edge and growth opportunities, but also a range of risks that need to be understood and mitigated. This has been mapped by a … Read more
The GDPR introduces a new mandatory requirement for all controllers to notify the appropriate data protection authority of a “personal data breach” likely to result in a risk to people’s rights and freedoms, for example following a cyber-attack. This will include providing the regulator with a significant amount of information about the breach and marks … Read more
In the run up to the GDPR applying from next year, there has been a variety of practical guidance for compliance at the European level through the Article 29 Working Party (“WP29”) (which reflects the consolidated view of national supervisory data protection authorities in each member state) and at the national level through the UK … Read more
