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Mid-October marked the start of the formal legislative approval process for China’s proposed new law on personal information protection. The milestone draft Personal Information Protection Law (PIPL) underwent is first reading by the Standing Committee of the 13th National People’s Congress and was released for public consultation on 22 October 2020. For further details on … Read more
Summary The ICO has fined Marriott Inc (“Marriott”) £18.4 million in relation to a 2014 cyber-attack on Starwood Hotels. The ICO had previously issued a notice of its intention to fine Marriott £99.2 million. The Penalty Notice does not explain the reasons why the final fine is considerably lower than this amount. Following the ICO’s … Read more
The Supreme Court in England has two issues to consider in the appeal which opens today. First, should the company be held to be vicariously liable for the acts of its employee in this case? It concerns, after all, a rogue employee, who took payroll data with which he was entrusted home on a USB … Read more
Shortly after the release of the communiqué from the most recent ministerial meetings of the ‘Five Countries’ security alliance — Australia, Canada, New Zealand, the UK and the US — at the end of July, we warned that the issue of the use of, and access to, encrypted services and technologies ‘remains front of mind for … Read more
Cyber-attacks are a continuous threat to both businesses and charities. From the Cyber Security Breaches Survey 2019 (available here as a PDF), we can see that fewer businesses are identifying breaches than in previous years, but the ones that are identifying breaches are typically experiencing more of them. Approximately 32% of businesses and 22% of … Read more
The National Cyber Security Centre (NCSC) and the Information Commission Office (ICO) have clarified their roles in relation to breaches of cyber security. NCSC manages cyber incidents at a national level to prevent harm being caused to both victims and the UK overall. It helps manage the response at a governmental level and seeks to … Read more
Just one day after its notice of its intent to fine British Airways £183.39 million, the ICO has issued a further notice of intent to fine Marriott International £99.2 million for its own data breach; The systems of the Starwood hotel group were originally compromised in 2014, prior to the acquisition of Starwood by Marriott … Read more
At the end of March the Information Commissioner’s Office (ICO) published an outline of the proposed structure for its auditing framework for the use of personal data in an Artificial Intelligence (AI) context. Once finalised the framework has potential to help catalyse the use of this new emerging technology within the restrictions of data protection … Read more
The UK Government recently launched a Call for Views on its Initial National Cyber Security Skills Strategy. The closing date for stakeholder responses is 1 March 2019, with the final strategy document expected to be published late in 2019. Read more
