Many companies are still struggling with some basic concepts of the General Data Protection Regulation, such as “controller,” “processor” and “transfer” of personal data. The European Data Protection ...
On 27 March 2025, the UK Information Commissioner’s Office (ICO) issued a £3.07 million fine to an IT services provider following a ransomware attack in 2022 that affected the company’s health care ...
European Commission decides UK provides adequate level of data protection, but can cancel the agreement if it sees the UK moving away from the EU model. The European Commission has granted the UK data ...
The UK is seeking to break away from the EU’s General Data Protection Regulation (GDPR), which came into effect in May 2018. Four years later, in May 2022, the UK government proposed a new bill to ...
The UK has left the European Union. It’s left the single market. And now it wants to leave behind the rules that require companies protect your personal data. “The GDPR is by no means perfect, and ...
What Happens to GDPR After Brexit in the UK? On January 1 2021, the UK formally and effectively left the European Union. The UK is now a “third country” under the EU’s GDPR (i.e., outside the EU). As ...
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52% of British businesses admit to experiencing data-related issues since the inception of GDPR Over a fifth (23%) of UK businesses cite budget as a barrier to improving security practices Looking ...
Turns out the UK government, under current prime minister Rishi Sunak, is not replacing the GDPR, as Michelle Donelan, his secretary of state for science, innovation and technology, implied last ...
A decision by the UK Court of Appeal to allow a claim for contravention of the European Union’s General Data Protection Regulation (GDPR) to be served against US defendants has raised questions over ...
Meta’s surveillance-based business model is facing an interesting legal challenge in the U.K. from an individual who’s suing over its continued processing of her data for ad targeting — despite her ...