The UK Online Safety Bill was proposed by the UK government to establish a new regulatory framework to tackle harmful content online and usher in a new age of accountability for tech companies. The bill will impose a duty of care on companies that offer user-generated content, in addition to search engines, to protect users
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ePrivacy Regulation: EU Members Agree on a Position
Posted in EU / EEA, Privacy / Data Protection
An overview of the agreed position by EU Members States for revised rules on the privacy and confidentiality of electronic communications.
ePrivacy Regulation: EU Member States Agree on a Position
On 10 February 2021, the EU Member States agreed on a position for revised rules on the privacy and confidentiality of electronic communications, which allows the Council presidency to start discussions with the European Parliament on the final text of the planned ePrivacy regulation.
English High Court Considers Limits of the Extraterritorial Reach of the GDPR in Relation to an Overseas Website
The General Data Protection Regulation (“GDPR”) has extraterritorial reach, meaning that many organisations based outside the European Economic Area (“EEA”) and the United Kingdom (in the case of the UK GDPR) must comply with GDPR obligations for personal data processing activities which fall within the territorial scope of Article 3 of…
Hong Kong Privacy Commissioner Issues Guidance Notes on Work-from-Home Arrangements
As work-from-home (WFH) arrangements become more prevalent, the Privacy Commissioner for Personal Data, Hong Kong has issued three guidance notes for the handling of personal data connected with WFH arrangements.
An employer’s legal obligations as a data user are no different in a WFH arrangement than those in an office environment. However, the circumstances around…
Considering these? App-solutely not! – China Issues Measures for the Identification of Illicit Collection and Use of Personal Information by Apps
By Gabriela Kennedy on
On 30 December 2019, the Cyberspace Administration of China, Ministry of Industry and Information Technology, Ministry of Public Security and State Administration for Market Regulation jointly released the Measures for the Identification of Illicit Collection and Use of Personal Information by Apps (“Measures ”). The Measures set out negative examples relating to the collection and…
Data Ownership and Contact Tracing
By Mark A. Prinsley & Oliver Yaros on
Who owns the data about individuals collected by the UK Government, NHS, academics and private companies in context of the COVID-19 pandemic such as data from contact tracing apps?
Legal framework
In the UK, there is no comprehensive framework to determine ownership of data, which is not generally understood to be property1.…
Covid-19-Related Implications For Liability Insurers In Hong Kong
By Angela S. Y. Yim, Tow Lu Lim & Marina Fung on
The first case of COVID-19 was reported in Hong Kong nearly five months ago, on 22 January 2020. No new local cases have been recorded for over two weeks and social distancing measures are being eased to allow the city to return to some semblance of normality. However, it will be a case of “so…
NHS Launches Contact Tracing App to Combat COVID-19
By Mark A. Prinsley & Oliver Yaros on
As we have previously reported, NHSX, the innovation arm of the NHS, has been working on a Bluetooth-based contact tracing app to help slow the spread of the coronavirus. The app called NHS COVID-19 has been launched this week for a trial at the Isle of Wight and is currently only available to NHS…
Privacy Implications of COVID-19 Contact Tracing Apps in the UK
By Mark A. Prinsley & Oliver Yaros on
Posted in Healthcare, Privacy / Data Protection
Governments and public health authorities around the world have been working to find a solution to the question as to how to ease lockdown restrictions which have been introduced to slow the spread of the COVID-19 pandemic without overburdening their health systems.
Some governments have been thinking about or have already been gradually lifting lockdown…