Data protection anoraks across the European Union (myself proudly included) eagerly awoke on 1 January this year with only one thought in mind: next year the General Data Protection Regulation (GDPR) will come into effect. After years of dialogue, tweaking, pondering and waiting, the GDPR will become applicable in the UK on 25 May 2018. Rejoice!
Although not everyone
Beware the Information Commissioner’s Office (ICO) which, particularly in recent months, has demonstrated its willingness to use their statutory Code of Practice enshrined under section 52 of the Data Protection Act 1998 (DPA) to impose monetary penalties (of up to £500,000) to those organisations who fail to take the appropriate measures to safeguard Medical Data (a type of Sensitive Personal
Members of Cloud Infrastructure Service Providers (“CISPE”) – the united voice of cloud infrastructure providers covering 15 European countries – have signed up to a Code of Conduct (the “Code”) introduced on 27 January 2017. The Code will incorporate the demands of the impending European Union General Data Protection Regulation (“GDPR”), in force from 25 May 2018 in the UK,
If you missed it the first time round, the data and privacy law team at Sharpe Pritchard will once again be presenting their training seminar, ‘Information Law Update’ on behalf of EM LawShare. Gareth Oldale, head of technology and data at Sharpe Pritchard, and Louisa Williams, solicitor in the data and technology team, will be joined by Lynn Wyeth of
In December 2016, the new Information Commissioner, Elizabeth Dunham, announced that the ICO would be preparing a report for Parliament this year on whether companies who provide outsourced services to local authorities should also be subject to the Freedom of Information 2000 Act (FOIA).
The Commissioner’s focus is on transparency and in her speech to the Freedom of Information at
