The UK’s data protection regulator, the Information Commissioner’s Office (“ICO”), has issued a “notice of intent” to Tiktok. This notice is a precursor to imposing a potential £27 million fine, following an investigation conducted by the ICO which found that TikTok may have breached data protection law between May 2018 and July 2020. The maximum…
On the 14th of September 2022 the European Commission President Ursula von der Leyen gave the annual state-of-the-EU speech, followed by the traditional publishing of the State of the Union Letter of Intent 2022 (which can be found here). The speech largely considered the geopolitical landscape, focusing on the Russia, Ukraine and the European reactions…
On the 14th of September 2022, the European General Court (“EGC”) delivered its judgement on Google’s antitrust case. The EGC largely upheld the European Commission’s (“EC”) 2018 ruling to impose an antitrust fine on Google, but with a slight reduction of the fine from €4.343bn to €4.125bn to “better reflect the gravity and duration of the…
In 2019, the US and UK governments signed the Agreement between the Government of the United States of America and the Government of the United Kingdom of Great Britain and Northern Ireland on Access to Electronic Data for the Purpose of Countering Serious Crime (“Data Access Agreement” / “DAA”), which will come into force on…
The judgment discussed below rendered two provisions of the Model Articles as inconsistent. Decisions made by a sole director of a company using the Model Articles may therefore be invalid or void. This means that sole directors of companies incorporated under the Model Articles should amend the Model Articles before incorporating them into their Articles…
The new legislative framework is aimed at fostering the government’s ambition to capture a 6% share of the AV market by 2035 which the (DfT) has estimated could be worth upwards of £41.7 billion. Background On 19 August 2022 the government published a policy paper entitled ‘Responsible Innovation in Automated Vehicles.’ The paper put forward…
Since Brexit, on 31 January 2020, the EU and the UK’s development of the General Data Protection Regulation (“GDPR”) could begin to diverge. The European Commission adopted new Standard Contractual Clauses for the transfer of personal data from the EEA to Non-GDPR adequate countries (the “New EU SCCs”). Separately, but in a similar vein, on…
A new Data Protection and Digital Information Bill (the Bill) in the UK is proposed to substantially modify the prevailing privacy framework derived from EU law. Amongst other reforms, it vows to soften the regulations and overhaul the UK Information Commissioner’s Office (ICO). Background Since the EU-UK Transition Period ended on 31 December 2020, the…
Background On the 18th of July 2022, a proposal for a new set of UK regulations on the use of artificial intelligence (AI) was set out by the UK Government. Regulators are being required to implement new “core principles” with the intention of encouraging innovation and fostering public trust all while steering clear of excessive…
The Preiskel Conference ‘ARTIFICIAL INTELLIGENCE (‘AI’) & THE METAVERSE’ was held on 8th June, with the opening talk, ‘Regulation of AI & the Metaverse’, given by Senior Partner, Danny Preiskel. The talk has set the scene for a potential Digital Policy Alliance (“DPA”) initiative on the regulation of the Metaverse. The DPA is asking members…
