UK Data Protection Act 2018;

It is well known that, under the UK GDPR and Data Protection Act 2018 (“DPA 2018”), data subjects can enforce their data protection rights against data controllers directly in the courts and seek compensation for breaches of those rights.
Continue Reading Orders to Progress Complaints – No Backdoor Appeal Process For ICO Decisions

In a CLE webinar earlier this week, Niloufar Massachi (Associate, Los Angeles) discussed evaluating, drafting, and updating vendor agreements to meet the privacy and security requirements of new US privacy laws and the GDPR.
Continue Reading Niloufar Massachi Discuss Vendor Contracting Requirements Under New US Privacy Laws and the GDPR

In this case, on the 8th January 2021, a former employee (“D”) of the RAC, (a well-known breakdown and recovery service in the UK and Europe) pleaded guilty to charges of conspiracy to secure unauthorised access to computer data and to selling unlawfully obtained personal data. The ICO investigation had found that