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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
UK – DATA & NEW TECHNOLOGY Following the Centre for Data Ethics and Innovation’s (“CDEI”) review into bias and algorithmic decision-making published on 27 November 2020, the CDEI and the Recruitment and Employment Confederation (“REC”) have published a set of jointly developed guidance to provide practical considerations for the use of data-driven tools (e.g. big … Read more
UK – DATA Following the DCMS’s publication of its consultation on proposed reforms to the UK’s data protection regime as part of the UK Government’s National Data Strategy, the consultation has now closed. The UK Government will now consider the responses gained from the consultation questions and publish a full consultation response in due course. … Read more
UK (AND OTHERS) – DATA Following the publication of the joint statement on privacy expectations for video teleconferencing (“VTC”) companies in July 2020, the ICO and six other global data protection authorities worked with the five largest VTC companies to produce best practice guidance designed to mitigate the risks faced by VTC companies and users … Read more
UK – DATA On 6 October 2021, the Information Commissioner’s office (“ICO”) published its response to the Department for Digital Culture, Media & Sport (“DCMS”) consultation on reforms to the UK’s data protection regime. The ICO’s response is broadly supportive of the consultation’s proposals, however, it includes reservations on some key points Read more
On 20 July 2021 the government published a consultation on its proposals for a new pro-competition regime for digital markets. The proposals are based on the recommendations set out in the Furman Review, the CMA’s final report of its market study into online platforms and advertising and the Digital Markets Taskforce report to government published in December 2020. The Furman review concluded … Read more
UK – DATA The European Commission adopted two final adequacy decisions which enabled the continued unrestricted flow of personal data between the EU and UK until 27 June 2025 or should the UK materially diverge and weaken privacy protections. This followed the Brexit Agreement between the UK and EU which granted an interim data transfer … Read more
Key Legal Issues in Fibre Network Acquisitions and Investments This is the second post in a three-part series focussing on key legal issues in data centre, fibre and towers acquisitions and investments. See our post on data centre investment here. Read more