Given the COVID-19 crisis, it is likely that data protection may no longer at the forefront of every controller’s mind, and rather, that business continuity has taken precedence. Acknowledging this shift and the need for companies to divert business as usual resources to their response to the crisis, the ICO has published two articles on … Read more

Following a public consultation on its draft code of practice with parents, children, schools, children’s campaign groups, developers, tech and gaming companies and online service providers which closed on 31 May 2019, the Information Commissioner’s Office (ICO) submitted its Age-appropriate design Code of Practice on 12 November 2019 but due to restrictions in the pre-election … Read more

The ICO (the UK privacy regulator) has published draft guidance on the right of individuals under the GDPR to access their data. Key takeaways include: An acknowledgement that subject access requests can be burdensome, with a requirement to ‘make extensive efforts’ to locate and retrieve information and confirmation that a significant burden does not make … Read more

The Information Commissioner’s Office in the UK (ICO) has announced an investigation into the use of facial recognition technology following a string of high profile uses. Prior to the results of this investigation, companies using facial recognition technology should: undertake a balancing test to ensure proportionality in the use of such technology, acknowledging its intrusiveness; … Read more

A recent test DSAR has demonstrated companies’ differing approaches to DSAR compliance Despite the DSAR being made by a third party on behalf of the data subject, it is clear companies are uncertain regarding when or how they should ask for ID verification ICO guidance urges data controllers to be satisfied that any third party … Read more

Following on from the ICO’s recent admission around its cookie consent mechanism (for further details see our previous post here), the ICO website was down for a period of time at the end of last week. But now it is back and with a new and “improved” cookie consent mechanism (see here). Read more

The GDPR came into effect almost a year ago on the 25 May 2018. As the most significant reform of data protection law in Europe for over 20 years, the legislation raised expectations of a cultural shift in attitude to data privacy. A year on from the fanfare of implementation, this bulletin looks at key … Read more

On 15 April 2019, the Supreme Court granted supermarket chain Morrisons permission to appeal against the Court of Appeal ruling that it was vicariously liable for its employee’s misuse of data in the first successful UK class action for a data breach. Permission was granted on all grounds of appeal and the Supreme Court will … Read more