The UK has left the European Union. It’s left the single market. And now it wants to leave behind the rules that require companies protect your personal data. “The GDPR is by no means perfect, and ...

Implementation will be phased. If not reading further, the main takeaway is that it will be important to pay attention to further developments as most of the changes do not come into force until there ...

UK businesses face new duties over their handling of data protection complaints under new rules that are now in effect.

Large portions of retail workers haven't been trained on GDPR or wouldn't feel confident handling sensitive customer ...

In March 2023, the UK government re-introduced its controversial Data Protection and Digital Information (DPDI) Bill to Parliament. The purpose of the legislation is to establish a UK version of the ...

In May, Meta was fined a record-breaking €1.2bn ($1.3bn) for mishandling citizen data when transferring it between Europe and the United States. The penalty was issued by Ireland’s Data Protection ...

Turns out the UK government, under current prime minister Rishi Sunak, is not replacing the GDPR, as Michelle Donelan, his secretary of state for science, innovation and technology, implied last ...

On 22 August 2025, the UK Court of Appeal issued its judgment in Farley v Paymaster. 1 The case related to the Sussex Police, whose pension scheme members’ “annual benefit statements” were posted to ...

The General Data Protection Regulation (GDPR) mandates strict protocols for the reporting of data breaches in accordance with EU data protection rules. Organisations can be issued large monetary fines ...

Big Tech take note: In what looks like a meaningful — and long overdue — reforming step, the European Commission has committed to dial up its monitoring of how data protection authorities at the EU ...