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Amazon faces surveillance scrutiny from EU unions - Benjamin Favaro comments for the International Employment Lawyer
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08 May 2024A confederation of trade unions from 11 different EU countries have called on Europe’s data protection watchdogs to investigate Amazon’s surveillance practices.
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Attacking Your AI: New Cyber Security Obligations Under the EU's AI Act
30 April 2024With the EU's AI Act expected to be published in the Official Journal imminently (20 days after which, the Act will come into force), those designing, developing, and/or deploying AI will need to start getting to grips with the myriad of new obligations - even if some may not apply for another 3 years!
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EU AI Act: What does it mean for employers?
23 April 2024Recruitment, selection, promotion, termination: these key workplace decisions are all considered automatically “high risk” under the EU AI Act. What does this mean in practice? We look at some of the burning questions employers are likely to have on the impact of this legislation.
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EU AI Act:101 – An In-depth Analysis of Europe’s AI Regulatory Framework
28 March 2024In this article, our Data, Privacy & Cyber team provide an in-depth analysis of Europe’s AI Regulatory Framework.
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ICO publishes new guidance on content moderation obligations
06 March 2024On 16 February 2024, the ICO published new guidance on the interplay between content moderation obligations and data protection (“the Guidance”). This is the ICO’s first guidance on content moderation and outlines how data protection law applies to content moderation processes under the Online Safety Act 2023 (OSA) and the possible impacts on people’s information rights.
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ICO publishes new Tech Horizons Report
05 March 2024On 9 February 2024, the ICO published a new Tech Horizons Report, which highlights eight emerging technologies that the ICO considers may have a particularly significant impact on society, the economy and information rights in the next two to seven years.
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UK watchdog warns against biometric monitoring of staff – Alexander Milner-Smith and Bryony Long comment for International Employment Lawyer
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28 February 2024The UK Information Commissioner’s Office (ICO) has warned that using biometrics to monitor employee movements may be in breach of data protection regulations, amid heightening fears for workers’ privacy rights.
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ICO bans Serco Leisure's use of facial recognition for employee attendance - Bryony Long comments for Infosecurity Magazine
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26 February 2024Serco Leisure has been ordered to stop using facial recognition technology (FRT) and fingerprint scanning to monitor employee attendance by the Information Commissioner’s Office (ICO).
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Big Brother Boss is watching – Linda Hynes comments on monitoring staff attendance using swipe cards for Irish Independent
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10 February 2024Irish employers are increasingly using surveillance software and AI to check productivity of staff at work at home, but does this lead to data protection issues for employers?
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Lewis Silkin's Data, Privacy & Cyber Team Watch Outs for 2024!
26 January 2024We all know that things move quickly in the world of data and so to celebrate Data Protection Day 2024, or Data Privacy Day 2024 for those across the pond, we’ve selected ten key themes we think will have the most impact for our clients in the year ahead.
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Explainability and AI: the silver bullet?
17 January 2024Lawmakers faced with rapid advances in AI are turning to the safeguards needed to protect individuals whose interests are affected by AI systems and to build trust in automated decision-making. Building trust in automated outcomes will be much more of a challenge for many years following the revelations which are emerging from the Post Office scandal. Common among these safeguards are auditing, human oversight, effective contestability, transparency and explainability. But what is most likely to be effective?
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Lewis Silkin has advised CACI on its acquisition of Cyber-Duck
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09 November 2023Lewis Silkin has advised CACI, a leading data and technology solutions company, on its acquisition of UK digital transformation agency, Cyber-Duck.
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FCA fines Equifax £11 million for 2017 data breach - five years after the ICO
25 October 2023This insight provides a summary of The UK’s Financial Conduct Authority’s (“FCA”) fines to Equifax Ltd (“Equifax”) £11,164,400 for failing to manage and monitor the security of UK consumer data it had outsourced to its parent company in the US, following a data breach in 2017.
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UK Government consults on consumer law reform
11 September 2023Even before the Digital Markets, Competition and Consumers Bill (DMCC Bill) completes its passage through the UK parliament, the UK Government is consulting on further consumer law reform. A key purpose of the legislation under review in the consultation is to ensure consumers are provided with timely and relevant information when making decisions.
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Data breaches in Hong Kong: To notify or not?
31 August 2023In July 2023, the Office of the Privacy Commissioner for Personal Data issued a revised guidance note on Data Breach Handling and Data Breach Notifications. The guidance note sets out practical recommendations on how data users can effectively prepare for and manage data breaches.
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Mind-reading tech in the workplace – a good thing, or the end of the world as we know it?
03 August 2023The ICO released its first report on neurotechnology on 8 June: a fast-emerging tech that records and processes data directly from an individual’s brain and nervous system (“neurodata”).
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The end of consent-less tracking by online platforms in the EU?
27 July 2023Like most of the ‘free’ internet, online social media are funded through online advertising that is tailored to individual users’ behaviour and interests. This decision of the CJEU in Case C-252/21 relates to one such platform, Meta, in respect of its online social network, Facebook. It is noteworthy for the advertising industry because it involves a competition authority determining data protection issues, and calls into question whether personalised advertising can be carried out by platforms on a basis other than consent.
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Expanding UK and EU requirements to cyber-secure services and products in the supply chain
24 July 2023While we continue to wait for news from Whitehall on the UK government’s search for a “suitable legislative vehicle” to drive its proposed updates to the Network and Information Systems Regulations 2018 (NIS Regulations), we take a look at why the change is necessary to protect supply chains, what is proposed, and who it will likely affect – the focus being on providers of managed services. We also sum-up other key cybersecurity changes afoot, both in the UK and the EU, affecting participants in supply chains for services as well as hardware and software products.
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AI regulation around the world
13 July 2023As usage of AI by businesses and individuals becomes commonplace around the world, governments are getting to grips with what regulations should be imposed.
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Pseudonymous or anonymous, that is the question. Ali Vaziri writes for Privacy & Data Protection Journal
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13 July 2023The question of whether data are pseudonymous or anonymous is painfully familiar to those using AI to mine for ever-deeper insights from ever-larger datasets. The answer is not without consequence. If pseudonymous, the GDPR applies with all its restrictions. If anonymous, then it does not.