Oct 29, 2020 Ticket to ride: class actions and the GDPR By Edward Machin When John Lennon wrote “you may say I’m a dreamer, but I’m not the only one; I hope one day you’ll join us”, he (probably) didn’t have...
Oct 29, 2020 UK Information Commissioner takes enforcement action against Experian By Ropes & Gray On 27 October 2020, following a two-year investigation into certain credit reference agencies, the UK Information Commissioner’s Office...
Oct 29, 2020 Uber challenged over alleged use of automated decision-making By Ropes & Gray The App Drivers & Couriers Union (ADCU) is taking legal action against Uber in the Netherlands on behalf of a number of former Uber...
Oct 29, 2020 Financial Conduct Authority confirms extension of SMCR implementation deadlines By Ropes & Gray The FCA has confirmed in its policy statement PS20-12 it will extend the deadline to 31 March 2021 for the following requirements:• the...
Oct 27, 2020 Market Abuse controls - FCA expects work and home arrangements to be equivalent By Ropes & Gray Julia Hogget’s (FCA, Director of Market Oversight) recent speech “Market Abuse in a Time of Coronavirus”, is a timely warning for firms...
Oct 27, 2020 Is the line between self-reporting and cooperation any brighter? By Ropes & Gray On 23 October the SFO issued further guidance on Deferred Prosecution Agreements as part of its Operational Handbook. This comes in the...
Oct 22, 2020 UK Information Commissioner publishes detailed guidance on right of access By Ropes & Gray On 21 October 2020 the UK Information Commissioner (ICO) published new detailed guidance regarding subject access requests (SARs) made by...
Oct 16, 2020 BA fined £20 million by ICO for data breach By Rohan Massey Today’s announcement allows both parties to claim victory – even if it may ultimately prove to be pyrrhic. BA negotiated a 90% reduction...
Oct 15, 2020 Lessons learned from OFSI’s Annual Review By Paige Berges OFSI has been in existence for four years, and has in its own words “achieved a lot in our short time as the UK authority for...
Oct 14, 2020 UK remains focused on supply chain transparency By Ropes & Gray Five years on from the introduction of the Modern Slavery Act 2015 (MSA), the UK Government has announced its commitment to increasing...
Oct 13, 2020 BEPS 2.0 - implications for asset managers By Andrew Howard The OECD's Base Erosion and Profit Shifting (BEPS) project is, and always has been, aimed at the tax position of multinational...
Oct 08, 2020 Pre-pack administration: UK Government announces reforms By Matthew Czyzyk The UK Government has today announced plans to introduce new legislation which will require mandatory independent scrutiny of 'pre-pack'...
Oct 07, 2020 Cayman Islands removed from EU blacklist By Andrew Howard The EU's removal, on 6 October, of the Cayman Islands from its blacklist of non-cooperative jurisdictions has not been met with universal...
Oct 04, 2020 GDPR breach trends – insight from Irish Data Protection Commission By Rohan Massey A well-spent 30 minutes at the Incident Response Forum Europe with the pleasure of posing questions to two representatives of the Irish...
Oct 02, 2020 Employee monitoring: beware the sting in the tail By Edward Machin Employee surveillance is not new: the Ford Motor Company’s Sociological Department was on a secret journey to snoop on its workers’ bank...
Oct 02, 2020 Twin US advisories warn ransomware payments could fall foul of sanctions and AML rules By Paige Berges On the first day of October, which is National Cybersecurity Awareness Month, the US sanctions and anti-money laundering regulators - the...