25 July 2016
UK: ICO guidance confirms "GDPR firmly on Brexit agenda"
The UK Information Commissioner's Office ('ICO') published, on 7 July 2016, an overview guidance of the General Data Protection Regulation ('GDPR') ('the Guidance'). The Guidance highlights similarities and differences between the GDPR and the current Data Protection Act 1998 ('the Act'), focusing on a number of topics including the legal basis for the processing, individuals' rights, data protection impact assessments and data breach notification.
3 June 2016
Further update: EU-US Privacy Shield
Further to our last blog of 26 April 2016, we have three updates on the EU-US Privacy Shield.
Firstly, MEPs have passed a non-legislative resolution calling on the European Commission (the Commission) to remedy “deficiencies” in its proposals for the EU-US Privacy Shield.
26 April 2016
April Update: EU-US Privacy Shield
Following on from our blogs of 9 February and 15 March (see here and here), the Article 29 Working Party has set out its assessment of the EU-US Privacy Shield. That assessment can be summarised as “Better…but not good enough”.
23 March 2016
New Information Commissioner announced
Elizabeth Denham has been selected by John Whittingdale MP, Secretary of State for Culture, Media & Sport, as the Government’s preferred candidate to become the UK’s next Information Commissioner.
15 March 2016
March Update: EU-US Privacy Shield
Further to our blog of 9 February 2016 (see here), the European Commission (the Commission) has published the draft “adequacy decision” and related legal texts that will provide for the EU-US Privacy Shield (the replacement framework for EU-US personal data transfers). The Commission has also issued a “communication” (i.e. a policy document with no mandatory authority) summarising the steps taken over the past few years to restore trust in EU-US data transfers since the Edward Snowden surveillance revelations.