John Magee & Eilis McDonald The Irish Data Protection Commission (DPC) has become the latest regulator to issue long-awaited guidance on the use of cookies, offering organisations a clear view of the DPC’s expectations on a range of issues from cookie banners, policies and consent collection processes.   Following on from a wide-ranging enforcement sweep, the […]

The COVID-19 lock-down and forced home-working presents many new vulnerabilities for hackers to exploit and also makes containment measures (such as forced password reset) more complicated to implement for the victims. Ransomware and extortion make up a sizeable percentage of cyber-attacks. On Friday, 17 April 2020 at 11am (BST) our cybersecurity colleagues, Ross McKean (partner, London) and […]

David Cook, John Magee There has simply been no way around it: the COVID-19 pandemic has given organisations across Europe and, indeed, across the world, no option other than to rollout home-working IT solutions if they want to continue operating. We can safely say that there has been no other single event in recent memory […]

In response to the coronavirus disease 2019 (COVID-19) pandemic, organizations around the world have moved to remote work platforms in a span of a few short weeks. Remote work programs that normally would be designed, tested and implemented incrementally over an extended period are being operationalized for entire workforces of many companies with no period […]

Today the Supreme Court allowed an appeal in Morrisons v Various Claimants1, a significant judgment addressing the extent of an employers’ liability for data breaches maliciously committed by an employee. The Supreme Court held that: The earlier judgments of the High Court and Court of Appeal had misunderstood the principles governing vicarious liability. In particular, […]

Important updates to China’s de facto data privacy regulations will come into force on 1 October 2020. The amendments to the Personal Information Security Specification (“PIS Specification”) comprise important clarifications rather than substantial changes to the existing regulations. This additional guidance on the practical steps needed to comply with China’s data privacy framework is good […]

By Jim Halpert and Katie Lee On March 11, 2020, the California Attorney General’s Office issued a third version of its draft CCPA rules (Version 3.0), only two weeks and a day after receiving comments on the second version. Comments are due March 27 at 5 p.m. PDT. Most of the changes in Version 3.0 […]

The world is facing unprecedented challenges in its fight to contain Coronavirus (COVID-19). Various countries are in lockdown and emergency measures being implemented to contain the pandemic, with European countries currently at the epicentre of the outbreak. Organisations are looking to adopt measures that support business continuity, whilst appropriately protecting the health and safety of […]