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A first look at the New UK Data Protection Bill
19 September 2017 - Praveeta Thayalan
The new UK Data Protection Bill (the Bill) was published on 14 September 2017 and, once enacted, will repeal the Data Protection Act 1998 (the DPA). The Bill preserves parts of the DPA and implements the standards of the General Data Protection Regulation (the GDPR) across the categories of data processing within the scope of › Read More
A deep dive into data processing at work: DPA advice on GDPR
14 August 2017 - LaurieAnne Ancenys
Laurie-Anne Ancenys of Allen & Overy looks at the recently adopted DPA guidance, which states that employers are unlikely to be able to rely on employee consent in the future. This article was first published in Privacy Laws & Business International Report, August 2017, www.privacylaws.com. You can read the full article here: A deep dive into data › Read More
Do we learn anything new from the UK Government’s Statement of Intent?
08 August 2017 - Data protection bill , GDPR Charlotte Mullarkey
On 7 August the UK Government’s Department of Digital, Culture, Media and Sport published a Statement of Intent in relation to the new Data Protection Bill. This comes only a month before we were led to expect to see the draft Bill itself. At first glance, notwithstanding some of the headlines in the press, it › Read More
ICO investigation into the Royal Free’s use of patient data used as an opportunity to educate
14 July 2017 - Deepmind , ICO Charlotte Mullarkey
In a case which has wide implications for the health care sector, the ICO has ruled that the Royal Free NHS Foundation Trust failed to comply with the UK Data Protection Act when it provided personal data of about 1.6 million patients to Google DeepMind. The personal data was provided as part of a trial › Read More
GDPR: Are we losing sight of today’s risks as we all look to the future?
25 May 2017 - Fines , GDPR , ICO David Smith
This week all eyes are on the future. There’s just one year to go until the EU General Data Protection Regulation (GDPR) comes into force on 25 May 2018 and we have the promise, in the Conservative Party’s manifesto, that here in the UK we will be getting a new data protection law that is › Read More
Smart contracts for finance parties
03 May 2017 - Conor O'Hanlon
WHAT IS A SMART CONTRACT? “Smart contracts are neither particularly smart nor are they strictly speaking, contracts.” – Monax.io A smart contract is a set of promises, agreed between parties and encoded in software, which, when criteria are met, are performed automatically. The concept of a smart contract is used to cover a spectrum of scenarios › Read More