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On 11 August 2021, the Information Commissioner’s Office (“ICO”) published a consultation regarding its draft guidance for international transfers of personal data (“Guidance”), as well as associated data transfer tools which serve to replace Standard Contractual Clauses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…
BT-owned mobile operator EE is to start charging UK customers to use their phones in Europe, having previously said it had no plans to reintroduce roaming costs after the Brexit trade deal signed at the end of 2020. UK’s trade deal encourages operators to be transparent and have reasonable rates (See here) but has not banned…
On May 6, Microsoft released its plan to support customers by enabling them to “process and store all their data in the EU”, which should be ready by the end of 2022. Microsoft seems to be reacting to the market’s needs following the Schrems II decision (see below). Microsoft is calling this plan the EU Data Boundary…
MWC may have been cancelled, but there are many unofficial MWC related events still going on in Barcelona during MWC week (starting 24 Feb). Danny will be participating at the MEF events, many of which are focusing on data privacy/consumer identity related aspects as well as IoT which will be open on a one-off basis…
Preiskel & Co consultant, Philip Goldenberg’s Article in the Independent is as relevant as ever, should today’s election result in a Hung Parliament. The article in the Independent Newspaper is available at:
World Radiocommunication Conference (WRC) News: ITU identifies new bands for 5G, procedures for LEO satellite operators According to telecompaper news, about 3,400 delegates from 165 member states have signed the International Telecommunication Union’s Radio Regulations’ Final Acts, the international treaty governing the global use of radio-frequency spectrum and satellite orbits. The signatures were given during…
(This post is published to coincide with the attendance of our film lawyers at the 2019 Cannes Film Festival. The post is co-written by our media law consultant David Allen Green and one of our film law specialists Matthew Fox.) * Mary Poppins Returns is a wonderful film, but it is a little harsh on…
Back in 1994 the journalist Nick Davies wrote a fascinating piece about John Cunliffe, the creator of Postman Pat, who has just died. Davies described how Cunliffe sold his rights to his creation: “[Cunliffe] agreed that Woodland Animations could make films and produce merchandise, while he would still have the right to produce books providing they…
