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BA’s sky-high fine for GDPR breach
09 July 2019British Airways (BA) are potentially facing a £183m fine by the Information Commissioner’s Office (ICO) for breaches of the General Data Protection Regulation (GDPR) following last year’s cyber-attack. The actual amount of the fine will be determined after representations are made by BA and by other supervisory authorities.
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The Law, the ‘Outlaws’ and Ad Tech’s O.K. Corral
26 June 2019Programmatic advertising is often likened by commentators to the Wild West: some because they consider it to be a lawless place where anything goes; others because it pushes boundaries and is creating a new frontier. Wherever you stand on that metaphor, ad tech is looking like it’s about to have its own ‘Gunfight at the O.K. Corral’ moment – a shootout in the EU prompted by a long-simmering feud between privacy’s ‘lawmen’ and the advertising industry’s ‘outlaws’ finally boiling over.
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A Trailer for GDPR Season 2: Creating a ‘Culture of Accountability’
19 June 2019In our previous article*, we looked at some key scenes from the first season of the GDPR. This next part takes a peak at what’s likely to be the main plot for season 2 (spoiler alert).
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GDPR Season 1: Off to a Slow Start?
30 May 2019Like winter in the popular HBO series Game of Thrones, privacy professionals warned that ‘GDPR is coming’ many months, years even, before the army of supervisory authorities (SAs) and data subjects started to amass on their doorsteps. For the most part, the warning fell on deaf ears. It was only when the first snows had already started to fall, signalling the imminent arrival of winter, that GDPR preparations began in earnest – with panic soon turning into hysteria, for some.
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Technology, Customer Authentication and PSD2: payment service providers (and retailers) - are you ready?
25 March 2019Apparently, we will, globally, spend some $4.9 trillion in e-Commerce transactions by 2021. Smartphones generated over 42% of eCommerce revenues in 2018 and there has been a ten-fold increase in biometric smartphones in the last two years. However, against the backdrop of our increasing transactional reliance on smartphones and other mobile devices, e-Commerce fraud increased by 33% in 2016. This put pressure on the EU to keep up with the way in which we shop and to enhance consumer protection by reducing the potential for fraud.
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JJ Shaw writes for Sportcal – AI: changing the game.
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12 March 2019JJ Shaw has written an article for Sportcal where he discusses the innovative developments in Artificial Intelligence within the sports industry, the need for AI specific regulations as well as the debate around ownership and access to data.
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Lewis Silkin advises Urban Innovation Company in their development and implementation of pulse smart hubs in Belfast
Deal
26 February 2019Lewis Silkin advised Urban Innovation Company (UIC) on its recent and exciting project of introducing the first smart hubs to the streets of Belfast. The £3M project, funded entirely by UIC which designs and builds next generation telecommunication hubs, will help people stay connected - and even save lives. Lewis Silkin supported UIC with a variety of commercial, corporate, IP, planning and data privacy related advice.
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ICO prosecutes Cambridge Analytica parent company
21 February 2019The Information Commissioner’s Office (“ICO”) has flexed its muscles by successfully prosecuting a company related to Cambridge Analytica for failing to comply with an enforcement notice it had issued. The case provides a reminder that non-UK citizens and residents have equal rights against UK data controllers to those of people within the country.
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No-deal Brexit and data transfers – an update
21 February 2019The Department for Business, Energy and Industrial Strategy (“BEIS”) has published guidance on using personal data after Brexit. The European Data Protection Board (“EDPB”) has also released an information note on the implications of a no-deal Brexit for data transfers from the EEA to the UK.
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Artificial Intelligence: The New Driving Force Behind Sports Performance and Entertainment
13 February 2019If I was to raise the topic of “artificial intelligence” in football, you’d be forgiven for thinking I was referring to Joey Barton’s decision to enrol as a philosophy student at Roehampton University back in 2013. But not so – last month it was announced that London-based non-league club, Wingate & Finchley FC, have employed football’s very first ‘AI coach’.
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Tech Predictions for 2019
11 January 2019Following on from our 2018 Tech Predictions, here are our top ten favourite tech predictions for 2019. Just imagine a world where new technology not only makes us more efficient but improves our lives in other ways - let’s see what 2019 might hold in store!
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NEW ICO guidance on “Data protection if there’s no Brexit deal”
18 December 2018With uncertainty about Brexit continuing to dominate the headlines, the Information Commissioner’s Office (“ICO”) has released some useful and practical guidance on key data protection issues if there is no Brexit deal.
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Brexit and GDPR: What should you do now about EU to UK transfers of personal data? (And other related issues)
28 November 2018There has been much discussion about the impact of Brexit on a company’s personal data flows in and out of the European Union post Brexit.
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Heathrow fined over data breach
09 October 2018The Information Commissioner’s Office (“ICO”) has made a civil monetary penalty order for the sum of £120,000 against Heathrow Airport Ltd (“HAL”) after a lost data stick containing the sensitive personal information of a number of staff members was found by a member of the public.
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Ali Vaziri writes for PDP Journal: Cyber-crime: court-assisted breach containment
Press
01 October 2018In an article for PDP Journal, Ali Vaziri explores how the courts can help contain a confidentiality breach in the light of recent cases involving organisations that have been hacked, had data stolen, and are then blackmailed
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Data breaches under the GDPR - will the sky come crashing down on British Airways?
11 September 2018Between 21 August and 5 September, British Airways (“BA”) suffered a data breach - in essence, its systems were “hacked”. This has affected the personal data of around 380,000 individuals. Following an announcement through BA’s Twitter account, the story was quickly picked up by mainstream media outlets, demonstrating the significant publicity that such events can generate in a short space of time.
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Hackers, Judges and Spartacus: Containing a Data Breach with the Court’s Help
18 June 2018Fear of publicity shouldn’t put off organisations from asking the court for help when they’ve been hacked, had data stolen, and are then blackmailed. There’s a range of orders which the English courts are willing to make against anonymous hackers and which, even if those orders are ignored, can be useful when it comes to containing a confidentiality breach – including when it comes to getting stolen data removed from other hosts/publishers, both in England and abroad.
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Sports Q&A – Political and religious views of sports stars - balancing contractual restrictions with human rights
01 June 2018Sports personalities are often subject to sporting rules that restrict their ability to make political statements or promote religious ideology when competing. Furthermore, contractual provisions can also mean that statements made in their personal capacity while off duty, for example on social media, can lead to disciplinary action or worse. Can such restrictions be challenged on the basis of human rights? Does it make a difference if the athlete genuinely holds the views (e.g. because of religious or cultural beliefs)?
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Alex Milner-Smith and Sean Dempsey write for techUK: Be prepared: the scramble to meet the GDPR deadline
Press
22 May 2018In an article for techUK, Alex Milner-Smith and Sean Dempsey discuss the fast approaching GDPR law coming into effect and that companies are scrambling to meet the deadline in time.
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Smart Cities and Renewable Energy
14 May 2018In the time before smart cities, electricity by and large was generated by burning fossil fuels in relatively remote locations before being transmitted via high-voltage power lines to population centres.