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Data Privacy Newsletter - Issue 18 In this issue: Post-Lloyd Developments; ICO's Enforcement Actions Under Scrutiny, Soriano v Forensic News LLC; Regulator Guidance; ICO Enforcement Overview; EU GDPR Enforcement Overview; Views from... the Middle East; Data Privacy at Slaughter and May...

Competition & Regulatory Newsletter: Meta lodges appeal against the CMA's order to divest Giphy On 23 December 2021 Meta Platforms, Inc (formerly Facebook, Inc) challenged the Competition and Markets Authority's decision ordering the divestment of Giphy, which Meta had acquired in May 2020, bringing an appeal on six grounds. Many will be watchin...

The Banking Litigation Law Review - Hong Kong Chapter - 5th Edition Hong Kong chapter of the fifth edition of The Banking Litigation Law Review which considers recent legal developments in banking litigation. For the past year, courts in Hong Kong have tirelessly heard and decided on cases related to the banking industry...

Artificial intelligence strategy: making the UK a global AI superpower The government's national artificial intelligence strategy, which sets out a ten-year plan to make the UK a global AI superpower, was unveiled on 22 September 2021. On 22 September the Government published a National AI Strategy which...

Divergence, Convergence and Challenges: Trends on GDPR Enforcement Across Europe and the UK A version of this article first appeared in the Privacy Law & Business UK Report, Issue 118 (November 2021) The introduction of the General Data Protection Regulation (EU) 2016/679 (the "GDPR") in May 2018 was a dramatic step forward in emp...

Data Privacy Newsletter - Issue 17 Selected legal and regulatory developments in data privacy for November 2021 Last week’s Lloyd v Google LLC decision marked the end of an era as the Supreme Court concluded the widely followed wrangle between the tech-giant and Richard Ll...

Global Investigations Bulletin (October 2021) Our latest Global Investigations Bulletin for October 2021 is now available. This month, we discuss NatWest’s guilty plea for breaches of the 2007 Money Laundering Regulations, and set out the latest news in global investigations and enforcement actions. ...

Competition & Regulatory Newsletter (1 - 14 September 2021) CMA imposes record fine for breaches of IEO. The UK Competition and Markets Authority has imposed a record penalty of £325,000 on ION Investment Group Limited and ION Trading Technologies Limited for breaching an initial enforcement order impos...

Evaluating the WP29's recent guidance on data breaches This article analyses the Article 29 Working Party guidance, ‘Guidelines on Personal data breach notification under Regulation 2016/79’, published on 3 October 2017. The guidance aims to provide clarity on the boundaries and expectation of handing a data ...

The NIS Directive: Genesis, Status, and Key Aspects Overview of the European Commission's proposed NIS Directive, focusing on its formation, current status and likely key aspects The European Commission's proposal for a Network and Information Security Directive concerning measures to ensure a hig...