EU finds UK has adequate protections for personal data
On 28 June 2021, the EU Commission found that the UK provides adequate protection for personal data, enabling personal to freely flow from the EU …
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New UK foreign investment law to impact telecoms, digital and data transactions
Summary By the end of 2021, many corporate transactions in the communications, data infrastructure, artificial intelligence, satellite and space technologies sectors (and some others) will …
EU and UK set out digital plans for coming decade
The European Commission has proposed a ‘digital compass’ to set its course for a digitally empowered Europe by 2030. The UK’s Department for Culture Media …
Europe progresses revised ePrivacy rules
EU progresses revised ePrivacy Regulation
UK proposes statutory backing for Huawei 5G ban
On 24 November 2020, the UK Government started the legislative process for a new Telecoms (Security) law which will, when passed into law, provide statutory …
UK Intellectual Property Office seeks views on Artificial Intelligence and Intellectual Property
On 7 September 2020, the UK’s Intellectual Property Office (IPO) published a call for views on the impact of Artificial Intelligence (AI) on the UK’s …
Hong Kong privacy regulator recognises ISO/IEC 27018
This guest post is written by @matthew1hunter and @aisling1odwyer. Regular readers of this blog will know we have been tracking the impact of ISO/IEC 27018:2014 …
ISO 27018 – the international standard for protecting PII in the public cloud – Where are we now?
Since its release in August 2014, ISO 27018 is becoming well established as the “go to” standard to help cloud customers to comply with their …
Will ISO 27018 help cloud customers to comply with Singapore’s data protection laws?
A key challenge for organisations who want to use cloud services is to do so in a way that is compliant with the organisations’ obligations …
MAS Embraces Cloud: A Silver Lining
There should be relief at the moment felt by financial institutions and cloud service providers alike, following the release of the MAS’s consultation on the …