On the 5th of September 2022, the House of Commons announced in the business statement (found here) that the progress of the Data Protection and Digital Information Bill will be paused following the appointment of the new Prime Minister, to “allow Ministers to consider the legislation further”. We will continue to monitor the status of…
On 25 May 2022, the UK Supreme Court gave its judgment on CMA v Flynn Pharma Ltd and Pfizer Inc in relation to a CAT decision on costs for public regulators. This is a vitally important case in relation to public interest enforcement of the law. It reaffirms that the judge must decide who pays…
Lord Clement-Jones, Former Chair of the House of Lords Select Committee on AI & Co-Chair of All-Party Parliamentary Group on AI spoke at our conference on 8 June 2022. Artificial Intelligence and the Metaverse presented by PREISKEL & CO LLP as part of the Lexing Network World Conference 2022 Topics and speakers included: Regulation of AI…
City Am reports the amount of cash pumped into British tech firms surged beyond that of China in the first five months of the year as private British tech firms bucked the volatility that has rocked publicly listed tech stocks. A record £9bn was raised by private UK firms in the first three months of…
On the 16th of May 2022, The European Data Protection Board (“EDPB”) has adopted, in its latest plenary session held on 12 May 2022, two new guidelines, one on the calculation of fines under the EU GDPR and the second guideline on the use of facial recognition technology in law enforcement. These two sets of…
In October 2017, Mrs. Underwood (the “Claimant”) was approached by a representative of Bounty UK Ltd (“Bounty”), a pregnancy and parenting support company, after giving birth at a hospital within the Hampshire Hospitals NHS Foundation Trust (the “Trust”). The Claimant alleged that the Bounty representative was able to access and read the medical notes at…
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The Information Commissioner’s Office (“ICO”) has published a draft guidance on the research provisions in the UK General Data Protection Regulation (Regulation (EU) 106/679) (the “UK GDPR”) and the Data Protection Act 2018 (the “DPA”)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…
