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The UK Government recommenced its efforts to reform the UK data protection regime by introducing the aptly named “Data Protection and Digital Information Bill (No.2)” (“Second Draft Bill”) to Parliament on 8 March 2023. The full text of the Second Draft Bill can be found here and an accompanying set of Explanatory Notes can be … Read more
Happy International Data Privacy Day for Saturday! And what better reason than that to explore what 2023 is likely to have in store for data and privacy? We are just over one year on from the UK government hinting that it might think outside the box in terms of data protection regulation. Two years on … Read more
President Biden recently issued an Executive Order on Enhancing Safeguards for United States Signals Intelligence Activities (the Privacy EO) outlining steps that the US Government is taking to implement the US commitments under the European Union-US Data Privacy Framework (the Privacy Framework) that the US and the European Commission (EC) announced in March 2022 to … Read more
On 31 August 2022, the Cyberspace Administration of China (“CAC“) published the Guidelines on the Application of Security Assessment of Cross-border Transfer of Data (“Guidelines“) to clarify how organisations in China can apply to CAC for a security assessment for cross-order data transfer, a requirement stipulated under the Measures for Security Assessment of Cross-border Transfer … Read more
On 17 August 2022, the Australian Government announced that Australia joined the Global Cross-Border Privacy Rules (Global CBPR) Forum.[1] The Forum, launched in April 2022, establishes a certification system to help companies in participating jurisdictions demonstrate compliance with internationally-recognised privacy standards, with the aim of fostering interoperability and international data flows.[2] Read more
Following the UK Government’s publication of its response to the DCMS consultation on the Data Reform Bill last month (see our blog post on this here), the UK Government has published and introduced to Parliament a 192-page draft text which now has a new name: the Data Protection and Digital Information Bill. The new bill … Read more
Cameron Whittfield and Peggy Chow discuss the latest cybersecurity trends for consumer-facing companies including external threats which may include working with third parties and complex supply chains through to the malicious targeting of companies with ransomware, current affairs and social engineering, the cryptocurrency marketplace and geopolitical factors. They emphasise the importance of internal stakeholders speaking … Read more
Following the Government’s promise to reform data protection laws in the UK post-Brexit, starting with the DCMS Consultation paper (“Data: a new direction”) in September 2021 (see our blog post on this here) and the announcement of the new Data Reform Bill in the Queen’s Speech in May 2022, the Government has now published its … Read more
On 7 February 2022, the Information Commissioner’s Office (“ICO“) announced the publication of the third chapter of its draft guidance on anonymisation, pseudoymisation and privacy enhancing technologies (the “Draft Guidance“). Following on from the first and second chapters published on 28 May 2021 and 8 October 2021, respectively, which focus on anonymisation, the new third … Read more
