This class action follows a representative action which was won on 30 December 2020 by Anne Longfield, a former Children’s Commissioners, for violations of the General Data Protection Regulations (Regulation (EU) 2016/679) (“EU GDPR”), on behalf of children residents in the UK or the EEA since 25 May 2018 who used Musical.ly (now known as…
The Information Commissioner’s Office (“ICO”) has published a draft guidance on the research provisions in the UK General Data Protection Regulation (Regulation (EU) 106/679) (the “UK GDPR”) and the Data Protection Act 2018 (the “DPA”) (the “Draft Research Guidance”) and launched a public consultation seeking feedback on the Draft Research Guidance. The Draft Research Guidance…
As artificial intelligence (“AI”) continues to make inroads in its use, as well as the amount of data it consumes, attention has turned to its regulation. The UK has a National AI Strategy which has some initial stages of consideration and statements of aim. In the meantime, the EU has released a draft Artificial Intelligence…
Meta, Facebook’s parent company, has been fined €17 million by the Irish Data Protection Commission (the “DPC”) over a string of historical data breaches. The fine comes following the DPC’s investigation into a series of 12 data breach notifications received by the DPC between June and December 2018. These breaches appear to have affected up…
Ofcom has mandated that telecoms providers ensure British Sign Language (BSL) users have access to a free, round-the-clock service across the entire the country that will enable them to contact emergency services when required. In addition to this, emergency SMS and text relay services will remain in operation. This requirement is from 17th June 2022.…
Ofcom published its statement on the future of telephone numbers, and has decided to remove the requirement on telecoms providers to provide local dialling.
We are delighted to announce that Preiskel & Co Senior Partner, Daniel Preiskel, was featured in GCCM (Global Carrier Community Magazine), a leading telecoms publication on his MVNO panel on “Building Blocks of Mobile Wholesale”. The article on the MVNO Roundtable can be found here: GCCM_Magazine_November-December_2021_soft.pdf (carriercommunity.com) (page 32). For more information, please feel free to email…
The Wiesbaden Administrative Court in Germany has referred a case to the European Court of Justice (ECJ) on whether the obligation to include fingerprints on government ID cards is legal. The German court argues that such storage obligation is not compatible with Articles 7 and 8 of the EU Charter of Fundamental Rights on the protection of…
The UK Competition and Markets Authority (“CMA”) has issued Meta (Facebook’s parent company) with a £1.5 million fine for failure to comply with an Interim Enforcement Order (“IEO”) imposed under the CMA’s investigation of the company’s acquisition of Giphy. The fine follows an earlier fine of £50.5 million imposed by the regulator in October 2021.…
On 28 January 2022, the final version of the international data transfer agreement (“IDTA”) and the international data transfer addendum to the European Commission’s standard contractual clauses (“SCCs“) for international data transfers has been laid before the UK Parliament. This follows the ICO’s public consultation which was launched in August 2021. If there are no…
