We are delighted to announce the States Assembly this morning unanimously voted in favour of the draft Data Protection (Jersey) Law 201- and Data Protection Authority (Jersey) Law 201-. The laws are now on track to go to the Privy Council for approval and come into force in line with the EU GDPR timetable. The […]

The General Data Protection Regulation (GDPR) will officially come into force on 25 May 2018. GDPR’s reach is global. Any company that offers goods or services to anyone in the EU will be required to comply. If you haven’t started to comply, or are not sure what to do next, following these steps will help ensure you […]

Carphone Warehouse has been fined £400,000 by the Information Commissioner’s Office for a series of “systemic failures” uncovered following a data breach in 2015. The ICO described the “number of distinct and significant inadequacies in the security arrangements” of Carphone Warehouse as “striking”, and said that it was “ particularly concerning that a number of the inadequacies related to basic, […]

The UK will be considered a “third country” as soon as it leaves the European Union (EU), which will potentially affect personal data exchanges with the UK, the EC’s consumer directorate has said in a Notice to Stakeholders. In view of the “considerable uncertainties”, particularly concerning the content of a possible withdrawal agreement, the notice said […]

Data breaches that arise after new EU data protection laws take effect but which stem from security flaws that were known about prior to then will be enforced under the General Data Protection Regulation (GDPR), the UK’s data protection watchdog has said. The Information Commissioner’s Office (ICO) clarified the position in a blog about the […]

Your name, your email address, your home address, your bank details, your credit or debit card details. You probably cannot count the number of times that you have been asked to share these important pieces of personal data with a company or organisation in the past weeks or months. As more and more of us […]

The government is to amend the data protection bill to protect security researchers who work to uncover abuses of personal data, quelling fears that the bill could accidentally criminalise legitimate research. The move follows a Guardian report on the concerns, and has been welcomed by one of the researchers who raised the alarm. “I am very […]

The word “consent” was mentioned so many times that one could have mistaken it for being a gala convention of feminists. Except it was, in fact, the government’s first public consultation on their promised and incoming data protection legislation, which hopes to quell the criticism on Aadhaar and the enforcement of India’s right to privacy. […]