June 2026
News Items King’s Speech signals growing focus on digital identity and cyber resilience ICO issues near £1m fine following ransomware attack on South Staffordshire companies Irish DPC launches Shein China transfer probe New DUAA complaints procedures: implementation expectations for organisations Articles Expert Comment — Bridget Treacy, Tamarillo Consulting Mind the gap: collective actions and damages […]
April/May 2026
News Items ICO issues open letter to platforms on strengthening age assurance Joint ICO and Ofcom statement on age assurance and privacy compliance Luxembourg Court overturns €746m Amazon GDPR fine Data protection needs to be central to use of facial recognition technology, says regulator Articles Expert Comment — Bridget Treacy, Tamarillo Consulting Not such a […]
March 2026
News items: Major DUAA provisions enter into force ICO issues raft of updated guidance Latest GDPR and UK GDPR fines Articles: Expert Comment – Bridget Treacy, Tamarillo Consulting From adequacy to TRAs: Decoding the ICO’s latest international transfers guidance – Tim Hickman and Joe Devine, White & Case Navigating compliance with children’s data protection requirements […]
January/February 2026
News Items Latest UK GDPR and GDPR fines Cyberattack takes France’s postal and banking services offline before Christmas Nomad faces FTC action after $186m hack Articles Expert comment – Bridget Treacy, Tamarillo Consulting A new cyber order: inside the UK’s Cyber Security and Resilience Bill – Pilar Arzuaga, Will & Schulte Redrawing the line between […]
December 2025
News Items Latest GDPR and UK GDPR fines UK GDPR now confirmed to apply to overseas providers Civil liberties groups demand inquiry into ICO Articles Expert comment – Bridget Treacy, Tamarillo Consulting ‘Consent or pay’: recent developments – Gareth Oldale, TLT LLP Data protection complaints — what’s new? – Lorna Cropper, Fieldfisher Déjà vu in […]
October/November 2025
News Items Latest GDPR fines Germany launches sovereign AI initiative with OpenAI ICO continues to investigate social media platform following UK exit Articles Expert comment – Bridget Treacy, Tamarillo Consulting From reactive to proactive: will the DUAA’s new internal complaints procedure requirement shift power back to controllers – Emma Erskine-Fox and Olympia Critchley, TLT LLP […]
September 2025
News Items Landmark ruling on ‘special purposes’ exemption in UK DUAA’s initial provisions enter into force Afghan data breach triggers major class action Articles Expert comment – Bridget Treacy, Tamarillo Consulting Joint controller relationships: when they arise and why organisations continue to avoid them – Duc Tran and Tom Cadman, Herbert Smith Freehills Kramer LLP […]
July/August 2025
News Items Data protection claim over personal injury clients is abusive, High Court hears 16 billion passwords exposed in recordbreaking data breach Civil society urges EU to reassess Isreal’s adequacy status Articles Expert comment – Bridget Treacy, Tamarillo Consulting UK data reforms and post-Brexit drift: a widening gulf, or still close friends? – Kate Brimsted […]
June 2025
News Items Irish regulator launches investigation into X’s use of EU data to train Grok AI Latest GDPR/ UK GDPR fines EDPB releases guidelines on blockchain Articles Expert comment – Bridget Treacy, Tamarillo Consulting The state of pseudoanonymisation in the EU – Sophie Stalla-Bourdillon, Brussels Privacy Hub The Data Use and Access Bill (Part 3) […]
April/May 2025
News Items Tribunal starts hearing Apple case in private New Code on AI and cyber security UK users may get ‘pay or consent’ after Meta agrees to stop tracking UK user Articles Expert comment – Bridget Treacy, Tamarillo Consulting The Data Use and Access Bill (Part 2) — smart data and digital ID verification – […]
March 2025
News Items Revised data protection fees in UK EDPB reports on right of access (coordinated enforcement topic) ICO on watch for inaccurate AI-generated chat summaries based on personal data ICO’s public sector approach to become standard Articles Expert comment – Bridget Treacy, Tamarillo Consulting The Data Use and Access Bill (Part 1) — what are […]
January/February 2025
News Items ICO’s public sector approach to become standard Fingerprinting not a fair means of tracking users online, says regulator Ryanair faces further GDPR complaint over face-scanning verification Brazilian regulator launches calls for views on AI, and acts against TikTok Articles Expert comment – Bridget Treacy, Tamarillo Consulting The devil’s in the detail: the LPP […]
December 2024
News Items UK government’s new Data Use and Access Bill is broad in scope ICO makes series of recommendations on AI to recruiters New framework helps organisations assess their data protection compliance EDPB adopts Opinion on relationship between controllers and their processors/sub-processors Articles Expert comment – Bridget Treacy, Tamarillo Consulting What are the implications of […]
October/November 2024
News Items Protecting children from online harms remains priority, says ICO Cookie crackdown continues in earnest IBM report reveals average cost of a data breach in 2024 UK signs Council of Europe treaty on AI risks Articles Expert comment – Bridget Treacy, Tamarillo Consulting Processing Biometric Data in the Workplace – Tim Hickman, White & […]
September 2024
News Items Government unveils vision for cyber security, data protection and AI ICO acts against platforms to improve children’s privacy practices EU AI Act now in force and Commission consults on Code of Practice ICO reprimands Electoral Commission Articles Expert comment – Bridget Treacy, Tamarillo Consulting UK GDPR compliant school social media use — recommended […]
July/August 2024
News Items Data Protection and Digital Information Bill – future unknown ICO reviews public sector approach trial ICO to investigate 23andMe data breach with Canadian regulator Meta halts AI rollout in UK and Europe Articles Expert comment – Bridget Treacy, Tamarillo Consulting Learning from the (security) mistakes of others – Peter Given, DAC Beachcroft LLP […]
June 2024
News Items Organisations need to do more to prevent cyber attacks, says ICO Generative AI, fourth call for evidence EDPB Adopts Opinion on facial recognition in airports ICO outlines Strategic Approach to regulating AI Articles Expert comment – Bridget Treacy, Tamarillo Consulting Pay or OK? ‘No way, not today’, says the EDPB (well, sort of) […]
April/May 2024
News Items New detailed fining guidance in UK ICO seeks clarity on ‘pay or okay’ model Regulator planning to continue cookie crackdown EU strikes deal on European Health Data Space Articles Expert comment – Bridget Treacy, Tamarillo Consulting Are you afraid of the dark? Protecting children from the harms of dark patterns – Karishma Brahmbhatt […]
March 2024
News Items Lack of staff training at fault in police body breach Home Office’s electronic monitoring of migrants deemed overly intrusive Updated Opinion on age assurance content moderation technologies and processes Articles Is applying for EU and UK Binding Corporate Rules becoming easier? – Nuria Pastor and Anna Rawlinson, Fieldfisher ICO’s second Tech Horizons report: […]
January/February 2024
News Items EU court lowers requirements for imposing fines for breaches Police breach a result of outdated approach, review finds EU approves Data Act G7 publishes code of conduct on AI Articles Fundamental changes to the UK GDPR – what they mean in practice – Elearnor Duhs, Bates Wells What are the implications of Clearview […]
December 2023
News Items ‘Christmas Tree’ Data Bill moved forward in UK Parliament How the ICO will fine – new draft guidance Clearview AI successfully overturns ICO fine; ICO to appeal UK holds AI Safety Summit Articles The New Guidance on Workplace Monitoring – Ann Bevitt, Cooley LLP Data Scraping and Data Protection – Key Things to […]
October/November 2023
News Items UK-US Data Bridge approved Sending bulk communications by email – new guidance Norway to extend ban on Meta’s tracking ads without consent Poland opens privacy probe of ChatGPT Share information to protect children, says ICO Articles Implementing AI – what you need to know – Stephanie Pritchett and Ben Wootton, Pritchetts Law LLP […]
November/December 2023
News Items Crypto exchange Binance pays $4bn in money laundering fines Advertising Standards Agency bans Toyota ad on environmental grounds Information Commissioner warns UK’s top websites to make cookie changes Iceland’s full-day women’s strike aims to close pay gap European Parliament adopts Data Act Articles Next steps for diversity and inclusion in financial services: FCA […]
September 2023
News Items Europe adopts adequacy decision on EU-US Framework PSNI data breach: review launched European Parliament and Council release agreed text on Data Act UK government announces proposed ban on financial cold callers UK escalates inquiry into how to regulate AI Articles Harmful design in digital markets — key do’s and don’ts – Bridget Treacy […]