Whilst competing factions in the UK Parliament continue to wrangle over the UK’s future relationship with the EU, in the background work continues to ensure that regulatory regimes, including data protection law, will function smoothly once the UK does, eventually, leave the Union.  To that end, the Government has now published the Data Protection, Privacy […]

On 10 December 2018, the European lawmakers reached a political agreement on the European Cybersecurity Act. The intention of this new EU Regulation is to better protect the European Union against cyber-attacks, including a strengthening of the powers of the European Agency for Network and Information Security (“ENISA”). The Regulation still needs to be formally […]

This week has brought further uncertainty on the route to Brexit.  The planned vote in the UK Parliament on the Withdrawal Agreement – intended to establish an orderly transition period for the UK to withdraw from the EU between 30 March 2019 and 31 December 2020 – has been postponed leaving considerable uncertainty as to […]

In a recent case, the Austrian Data Protection Authority (ADPA) decided for the first time on the permissibility of a consent for the use of cookies, as well as the concept of freely given consent under the GDPR. The case involves the cookie consent on the website of an Austrian newspaper. In this decision, the […]