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25/10/2024 Newsflash: Data (Use and Access) Bill – Re-return of DPDI (in part)!
The Data (Use and Access) Bill (DUA Bill) was introduced into the House of Lords on 23 October 2024. It revives some (but not all) of the proposed changes to data protection law under the former Conservative Government’s Data Protection and Digital Information Bill (DPDI Bill, which was changed for a few months to DPDI 2, before going back to DPDI).
26/09/2024 Newsflash: Olivia runs workshop at PDP Conference 2024
What a fantastic PDP Conference 2024! I’ve thoroughly enjoyed attending PDP’s 23rd Annual Data Protection Compliance Conference, and presenting at one of their workshops on lawful basis for processing (with more to come from me this afternoon…).
On Day 1, a great range of hot topics were covered by brilliant speakers. Emily Keaney from the ICO gave us an update on the ICO’s activities, with a “how to, not don’t do” approach. Jenna Franklin took us through AI Governance, suggesting using the EU’s AI Act as good guidance for risk assessment. Later in the day, Tim Hickman took us through the territorial applicability of the EU AI Act, with the potential to reach deployments of AI around the world, due to some aggressive drafting on use of outputs in the EU!
24/07/2024 Article: ICO publishes Annual Report 2023/2024
The UK Information Commissioner’s Office (ICO) has published its annual report, containing details of its activities and financial statements between April 2023 and March 2024. The Information Commissioner, John Edwards, comments on the diverse nature of his roles, from investigating a case of an email which didn't use bcc, to assessing the risks of AI and novel technologies!
The ICO continued its approach of giving reprimands for a lot of breaches, and only using more formal enforcement notices or fines for the more serious breaches, for example where people are a most risk of harm. The biggest fine issued was £12.7m against TikTok in April 2023. Two energy companies were also issued with a combined £250,000 fine for unlawful marketing calls.
