What is the Online Safety Act? The OSA (Online Safety Act) originates from a white paper published in April 2019, with the Bill introduced to Parliament in March 2022. It has been a long time in the making and has been...
What is the Age Appropriate Design Code? The Age Appropriate Design Code (AADC) came into force on 2 September 2020 with a 12 month transition period. The AADC sets out several standards that organisations providing online services must follow to ensure...
Our Head of Consultancy Louise Brooks shares her thoughts on the data scraping statement issued recently. Joint statement on data scraping On 24 August, the ICO, together with the 11 other members of the Global Privacy Assembly’s IEWG (International Enforcement Cooperation...
The Data Protection and Digital Information (No. 2) Bill is the latest and most successful attempt to modify data protection law in the UK post-Brexit. The first draft was presented to Parliament in July 2022 and this second version was introduced...
On 3 April 2023 Capita released a statement about a cyber incident it experienced over the previous weekend. Capita has contracts with the NHS, BBC, and central and local governments. Some of the key services offered by Capita include customer management,...
