The UK is eagerly awaiting an ‘adequacy decision’ by the EU Commission (EC) to confirm that UK laws provide an adequate level of protection of personal data. If this is not granted, businesses wil...
Personal data implications of working from home during COVID (and beyond…)
Since the first national lockdown in the UK in March 2020, millions of people around the country have been working from home. Currently the government asks that we work from home unless it is impossib...
EU – UK Personal Data to keep on flowing freely post Brexit
On Friday 19 February 2021, the European Commission published a draft adequacy decision in favour of the UK. If adopted, this will allow the continued free flow of personal data from the EU to the UK....
Direct Electronic Marketing – How to Ensure Compliance
The Privacy and Electronic Communications Regulations (PECR) govern specific privacy rights in relation to electronic communications. The regulations sit alongside the UK GDPR and Data Protection Act....
What Brexit means for UK Data Protection
When the UK transition period for leaving the EU finishes on 31 December 2020, the EU General Data Protection Regulation (GDPR) will not apply in the same way that it has done so. At 11pm on 31 Dec 20...
European Court of Human Rights holds that employer’s reading of employee’s private messages at work is lawful
The European Court of Human Rights has ruled that an employer was within its rights to sack a Romanian engineer after discovering that he had used a work Yahoo messaging account to correspond with his...
European Court of Justice has declared Safe Harbor invalid
On 6 October 2015 the European Court of Justice issued a judgement in favour of a private individual Mr Schrems, against Facebook, declaring as inadequate the protection provided by the US safe harbou...
Data protection and direct marketing
Communicating with customers is an important marketing activity for businesses. There are, however, legal requirements covering the collection and storage of personal data and its use in marketing. Th...