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Privacy Laws & Business – The DPO 2025: Expectations and challenges ahead

Partner Alexander Dittel discuss Data Protection Officer challenges and compliance trends ahead in this article for Privacy Laws & Business UK Report, January 2023.

News

A sustainable future: will smart energy get us DER?

This article by Alexander Dittel discusses the benefits and risks of harnessing smart energy data, and the current regulatory framework. This article first appeared in the October 2022 issue of… Read more →

News

The UK’s Online Safety Bill: The day we took a stand against serious online harms or the day we lost our freedoms to platforms and the state?

In this paper for Journal of Data Protection & Privacy, Alexander Dittel discusses the UK’s Online Safety Bill, which is intended to protect vulnerable individuals online, although at the risk… Read more →

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A Clear View of the Risks of Indiscriminate Digital Facial Recognition

In this article Partner Alexander Dittel and Solicitor Francesca Allport discuss the recent fine issued to Clearview AI by the Information Commissioner’s Office (ICO) for its processing of biometric data… Read more →

News

Privacy Laws & Business: The ICO’s take on ‘effective, proportionate and dissuasive’ GDPR enforcement action

The ICO’s draft policy on fines looks to improve transparency and consistency by Alexander Dittel. Originally published in Privacy Laws & Business UK Report. Please click here to read the article on… Read more →

News

Edward Fennell’s Legal Diary – Clearview AI

Partner Alexander Dittel shares his thoughts on the news that the facial recognition software company, Clearview AI, has been fined £7.5M for a breach of data protection laws, published in… Read more →

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Regulatory Scrutiny of Cookie-less Adtech Continues to be one of Google’s Topics – Entertainment Law Review

Originally published by ThomsonReuters © ThomsonReuters.

News

Edward Fennell’s Legal Diary – Legal comment of the week

Partner Alexander Dittel shares his thoughts on the news that the facial recognition software company, Clearview AI, has been fined £7.5M for a breach of data protection laws, published in… Read more →

Podcast Privacy

Episode 8

Austrian DPA strikes at Google Analytics again and rejects “risk-based approach” for data transfers (link). The European Commission and the United States reached an agreement in principle for a Trans-Atlantic… Read more →

Podcast Privacy

Episode 7

John Edwards delivers his first speech as UK’s Information Commissioner (link). UK Online Safety Bill (link). EU Commission announces Privacy Shield 2.0 (link). US Government Surveillance Transparency Act (link). EDPB… Read more →

News

UK REPORT MARCH 2022: No end to the end-to-end encryption – Privacy Laws & Business

News

GDPR’s children data regime – US Law Magazine

Partner Alexander Dittel writes about pressing issues arising from the GDPR’s children data regime, published in US Law Magazine’s Spring 2022 issue.

News

Bricks, Mortar and Data

The building blocks of modern real estate are no longer confined to construction materials. With the proliferation of new technologies and digitalisation of the real estate sector, data protection is… Read more →

Podcast Privacy

Episode 6

ICO’s International data transfer agreement laid before Parliament (link). CNIL requires website to rectify non-compliance in relation to its use of Google Analytics with data transfers to the United States… Read more →

News

AI and automated decision making: to regulate or deregulate? – PLC Magazine

This feature article by Alexander Dittel discusses the current and future regulation of artificial intelligence and automated decision-making technologies. This article first appeared in the January/February 2022 issue of PLC… Read more →

Podcast Privacy

Episode 4

ICO fines Cabinet Office £500,000 for disclosing addresses of 2020 the New Year Honours recipients (link). Draft EU directive on improving working conditions in platform work (link). UK Government’s Roadmap… Read more →

News

Summary of Wealth Management Executive Moves – September 2021 – Wealth Briefing

Wealth Briefing has highlighted our new partner appointments in a further round up of September’s People Moves. To read the full article, please click here.

News

Data protection considerations for the hybrid environment – CIR Magazine

Partner Alexander Dittel and Senior Associate Choy Lau have written an article addressing the data protection risks involved with hybrid working, in the November-December issue of CIR Magazine. Subscribers can… Read more →

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Data reform: Unlocking AI to boost innovation across industry – Privacy Laws and Business

The article was originally published in Privacy Laws & Business issue 118 on 16 November 2021.

News

Facial recognition technology: the risks unfold – PLC Magazine

This article first appeared in the December 2021 issue of PLC Magazine.

News

Lloyd v Google ruling could protect Big Tech — and smaller businesses – Tech Monitor

Partner Alexander Dittel has been quoted in Tech Monitor, commenting on the impact of the UK Supreme Court judgment Google v Lloyd. Google’s victory in an appeal against a class-action… Read more →

News

Lloyd v Google: Google win landmark data claim – Solicitors Journal

The Supreme Court has unanimously ruled to block a representative action brought against Google by a former executive director of consumer watchdog Which? Partner Alexander Dittel shares his thoughts in… Read more →

DATA PRIVACY PODCAST – EPISODE 2

International data transfers: The ICO’s call for an international solution to data transfers (link), G7 cooperation on data free flow (link), and US Congress paper on transatlantic data flows (link).… Read more →

Podcast Privacy

EPISODE 2

International data transfers: The ICO’s call for an international solution to data transfers (link), G7 cooperation on data free flow (link), and US Congress paper on transatlantic data flows (link).… Read more →

News

Use your inner ‘Big’ child to implement the Age Appropriate Design Code

Thinking about how to implement the Age Appropriate Design Code issued by the UK’s Information Commissioner’s Office?  Reach out to your inner child! In the movie Big, Tom Hanks played… Read more →

DATA PRIVACY PODCAST – EPISODE 1

Second largest fine of €225M imposed by the Irish Data Protection Commissioner (DPC) on WhatsApp (link) as revised by the European Data Protection Board (link). UK Government announces a data… Read more →

Podcast Privacy

EPISODE 1

Second largest fine of €225M imposed by the Irish Data Protection Commissioner (DPC) on WhatsApp (link) as revised by the European Data Protection Board (link). UK Government announces a data… Read more →

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