One stop shop
The One-Stop-Shop – A Big Disappointment Or Just Slow To Bloom?
03 July 2020 - David Smith
A few months ago, when asked to comment on the success or otherwise of the GDPR’s so called one-stop shop I suggested that the house was still out. Whilst there were some worrying signs it was perhaps too early to simply write off the arrangement. Since then we have seen France’s top court, the Conseil › Read More
ICO bares its teeth with plans to issue over £280m in fines
09 July 2019 - data breach , fine , ICO Adam Smith
Those in the travel sector would be forgiven for feeling rather nervous after the UK’s Information Commissioner’s Office (ICO) announced plans to issue major fines to British Airways and Marriott International following separate data breach incidents in 2018. On 8 June 2019, the ICO issued a statement of its intention to fine British Airways £183.39m › Read More
Article 29 Working Party adopts Guidelines on the “lead supervisory authority”
06 February 2017 - Peter van Dyck
One of the key innovations of the upcoming General Data Protection Regulation (GDPR) is the so-called one stop shop principle. This principle aims to avoid companies that undertake cross-border processing of personal data finding themselves subject to a plurality of competent data protection authorities. Concretely, the GDPR provides that the data protection authority in the › Read More