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New commitments in principle regarding UK to USA data transfer mechanism

By Lara White (UK), Marcus Evans (UK) and Fiona Bundy-Clarke (UK) on June 13, 2023 Posted in Data Protection

On 8 June 2023, the UK Secretary of State for Science, Innovation, and Technology and the US Secretary of Commerce issued a joint Statement confirming that the UK and the USA have committed in principle to establishing a “data bridge” to allow for the free flow of data between organisations in the UK and participating … Continue reading

New UK guidance on Transfer Risk Assessments

By Lara White (UK) and Fiona Bundy-Clarke (UK) on December 8, 2022 Posted in Data Protection, Data Transfer

On 17 November 2022, the Information Commissioner’s Office (ICO) published an update to its guidance on international transfers (Transfers Guidance). This included specific guidance about transfer risk assessments or TRAs and a tool for undertaking TRAs (the TRA Guidance and TRA Tool, respectively). In its blog post accompanying the updated Transfers Guidance, the ICO makes … Continue reading

UK GDPR Reform: government publishes response to consultation – likely to form basis of forthcoming UK Data Reform Bill

By Marcus Evans (UK), Fiona Bundy-Clarke (UK) and Shiv Daddar (UK) on June 22, 2022 Posted in Compliance and risk management, Regulatory response

The Department for Culture, Media and Sport (DCMS) has finally published the UK government’s long-awaited response to the consultation on the future of the UK data protection regime. The government set out very high level principles for a Data Reform Bill in the Queen’s Speech in May. If legislation is to be passed in this … Continue reading

Tentative further steps towards an agreed ePrivacy Regulation

By Lara White (UK) and Fiona Bundy-Clarke (UK) on February 15, 2021 Posted in Regulatory response

It has been some months since we wrote about the ePrivacy Regulation and some years since the first draft was proposed. Since then, we have seen numerous delays in achieving an agreed form of legislation, caused in part by strong views on how privacy and confidentiality shape the development of electronic communications services and passionate … Continue reading

EU-UK Trade and Cooperation Agreement: Implications for data protection law

By Fiona Bundy-Clarke (UK) on January 4, 2021 Posted in Data Transfer, Enforcement

On Christmas Eve, the EU and UK announced that a Trade and Cooperation Agreement (TCA) had been finalised. With it, came a sigh of relief from data protection practitioners everywhere. This is because the TCA provides an extension period, of a sort, to allow the European Commission time to conclude its adequacy assessment of the … Continue reading