In an attempt to strengthen digital competition regulation in the UK, the Government confirmed its approach to the new competition regime on 6 May 2022.[1] Now, the UK is on the verge of publishing the Digital Markets, Competition and Consumer Bill which will be broadly aligned with the EU’s Digital Markets Act. The question that…
When Tim Berners-Lee created a system that used hypertext links to retrieve research papers at his research institute in Switzerland in the late 1980’s and early 1990’s he probably never thought his insight would spawn a worldwide commercial network. 30 years later we can see that people’s daily lives have been changed by the internet…
Recently the European Union set in motion what may become a very significant overhaul of how litigation funding functions across all member states. In a report written by German MEP Alex Voss of the EU parliament’s Legal Affairs Committee, a case was made for the EU to make a concerted effort to avoid the fostering…
The United Kingdom government wants to have new telecoms security regulations – together with a code of practice. These will apply to network and service providers. The relevant department – the Department for Digital, Culture, Media & Sport – conducted a consultation exercise for these new regulations and the code of practice from March to…
Questions as to the enduring dominance of London in the realm of commercial claims were raised in a recent article by the Law Society Gazette. It was reported that there has been a marked increase in the number of commercial cases which are being heard outside of the capital. Year on year, the proportion of…
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…
The Preiskel & Co team was honoured to write the Chambers & Partners Telecommunications Article in the Chambers UK 2022 guide.
The piece can be read here.
Please contact the lead author and Preiskel & Co Senior Partner, Danny Preiskel, with questions.
On 2nd September 2021 the Irish Data Protection Commission (”DPC”) imposed its biggest fine to date on WhatsApp, the messaging app owned by Facebook. In its reasoning (available here) the DPC considered both: the information provided by WhatsApp to its users, and perhaps more importantly the lack of information provided to non-users. Namely, it was…
On 11 August 2021, the Information Commissioner’s Office (“ICO”) published a consultation regarding its draft guidance for international transfers of personal data (“Guidance”), as well as associated data transfer tools which serve to replace Standard Contractual Clauses (“SCC”). The ICO’s post-Brexit data protection actions include these new documents, which are subject to consultation: Proposals aimed…
