The Information Commissioner’s Office (“ICO”) has revealed a revised guidance on international data transfers, including a new section on transfer risk assessments (“TRA”) and a TRA tool. The UK GDPR contains rules about transfers of personal data to importers located outside the UK, which are referred to as restricted transfers. One way to comply with…
New regulations for telecoms providers were revealed by Ofcom on 15 November in order to tackle increasing scam calls and scammers using the identity of a caller for fraudulent purposes. The new rules are specifically intended to enhance the accuracy of calling line identification (CLI) data. CLI data CLI data consists of the caller’s identity…
AI is perhaps one of the fastest evolving technologies ever devised, with enormous capabilities to entirely reshape the very foundations of a range of businesses, enable significant financial development and forever alter our way of living and interacting with one another. There are high expectations that the metaverse, which relies greatly on AI technologies, will…
On 20 October 2022, the Court of Justice of the European Union (“CJEU”) issued its decision in Case C-77/21 Digi Távközlési és Szolgáltató Kft. (“Digi”) v. Nemzeti Adatvédelmi és Információszabadság Hatóság (National Authority for Data Protection and Freedom of Information, “NAIH”), relating to the request for a preliminary ruling presented by the Court of Budapest-Capital. Specifically, the…
On 7 October 2022, the Information Commissioner’s Office (ICO) has posted a news alert regarding the risks from use of biometric technologies. The alert provides a warning that the ICO views the use of certain emotional analysis technologies as more risky than traditional biometric technologies. This is because the ICO does not deem the current…
It has traditionally been difficult for the CMA to assess and understand the entry and dynamic competition in technology markets. Looking at potential evolution of markets and dynamic competition if often simply hard to do through lack of knowledge and evidence. In the Meta /Giphy case the CMA has, assessed the supply side and “Timely…
President Biden signed an Executive Order on “Enhancing Safeguards for United States Signals Intelligence Activities” (“Executive Order”) on 7 October 2022. In conjunction with the regulations issued by the US Attorney General to establish a Data Protection Review Court (“DPRC”), the Executive Order implements into US law the agreement in principle revealed by President Biden…
Preiskel & Co has four teams listed in the latest edition of the Legal 500 2023. The firm has been ranked for IT and Telecoms, led by Senior Partner, Danny Preiskel, and for EU and Competition, led by Tim Cowen. The Commercial Dispute Resolution team, led by Robert Dougans, and the Media and Entertainment team, led by Peter…
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…
