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02/11/2023 Newsflash: Online Safety Bill becomes an Act

The much-debated Online Safety Bill received Royal Assent on 26 October 2023, so it is now the Online Safety Act 2023.


11/10/2023 Publication: Subtle but helpful – changes to the right of access under DPDI 2

In this article, I discuss the upcoming changes to the rules on subject access requests under the Data Protection and Digital Information (No. 2) Bill (DPDI 2). Some of these changes also impact the broader rights of data subjects.

the full article: “Subtle but helpful – changes to the right of access under DPDI 2” published in Volume 24 Issue 1 of the PDP Privacy and Data Protection Journal (http://www.pdpjournals.com).


18/07/2023 Article: ICO publishes Annual Report 2022/2023

The UK Information Commissioner’s Office (ICO) has published its annual report, containing details of its activities and financial statements between April 2022 and March 2023. It also published an annual report last year (relating to the period between April 2021 and March 2022), and somehow I failed to publish an update on it! So my article this year has some statistics from the last two years. John Edwards took over from Elizabeth Denham as the ICO during the course of 2021/2022, so these are the first two Annual Reports for John Edwards as the ICO.


14/03/2023 Newsflash: Data Protection and Digital Information Bill – The Return!

On 8 March 2023, the Data Protection and Digital Information (No. 2) Bill was introduced into UK Parliament.