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I’ve written a piece on the Mishcon de Reya website on the data protection implications of reports that staff at the London might have inappropriately accessed her patient notes.

https://www.mishcon.com/news/the-princess-of-wales-and-possible-data-protection-offences-and-infringements

As we hurtle into an election year there may be a rush to get parliamentary bills over the line. The signs are that there is a) a momentum behind the Data Protection and Digital Information Bill*, and b) little notable opposition opposition, so I’m expecting it to pass.

Accordingly, the NADPO executive have asked two experts to speak about the Bill at our next webinar, on Tuesday 23 January: Dr Chris Pounder and Ibrahim Hasan are preeminent in the field, and will be talking, respectively, about “New Data Sharing rules under the DPDI Bill” and “Proposed changes to UK GDPR”.

As always, attendance is free for NADPO members, and Data Protection Forum members can also attend for free under our mutual agreement with the Forum. If anyone else fancies testing the NADPO waters please drop me a line at chair at nadpo dot co dot uk and I’ll see if we can accommodate you.

[*the Bill is no longer titled “No.2”, despite what I’ve seen from many experts, including *cough* myself, albeit a few months ago now]

The monthly NADPO lunchtime webinars resume today at 12:30 to 14:00, with talks by Robin Hopkins of 11KBW on ‘Insights from recent High Court judgments’ and Ashley Winton of Mishcon de Reya LLP on ‘DPIA => AIIA, a look at the wider laws that will apply to AI’.

NADPO members should have the joining details in their inboxes, but if anyone would like a free guest place, to test the NADPO waters, as it were, do either message me here, or on chair at NADPO dot co dot uk, as we have a couple available.

Traffic to start moving next month…

A short piece by me on the Mishcon de Reya website:

https://www.mishcon.com/news/uk-us-data-bridge-agreed

A piece in The Times by me and my Mishcon de Reya colleague Emma Woollcott, on the recent Hurbain v Belgium “right to be forgotten” case:

https://www.thetimes.co.uk/article/588d0282-523f-11ee-a518-203f78f24415?shareToken=e340610d08c71fe41d2602e066339071

I’ve written on the Mishcon de Reya website about the Information Commissioner’s Office’s use of reprimands for data protection infringements, despite the absence of any published guidance or procedure. Coupled with the lack of any way of appealing a reprimand, does this risk putting recipients in an unfair position?

https://www.mishcon.com/news/icos-regulatory-use-of-reprimands-does-it-need-a-rethink

NADPO’s next webinar is tomorrow, June 27, featuring 

Lucas Amin, Open Democracy – “the NHS Federated Data Platform – risks and opportunities”
Dr Luc Rocher, Oxford Internet Institute – “The hazards of proxy data sets“

Members should already have (just) been sent the link, and it is also available in the members’ zone on our website. As usual, there are one or two free spaces if anyone wants to test the waters. Contact me at chair at nadpo dot co dot uk if you’d like to request one.

https://nadpo.co.uk/event/nadpo-june-webinar/

That is what they are warning. Let’s see what transpires. New post by me on the Mishcon de Reya website:

https://www.mishcon.com/news/ico-warns-of-fines-for-companies-who-do-not-get-cookie-banners-right

NADPO’s May lunchtime webinar is at 13:30 on 23 May. Speakers and topics are

Prof Mark Elliott, UKAN – “Anonymisation: What is it? And how do I do it?”
Karen Levy, Cornell University – “Robotruckers: The double threat of AI for low-waged work”

As usual, there are a couple of free spaces for anyone who wants to test the NADPO waters. Email me on chair at nadpo dot co dot uk if you’re interested.

I’ve written a piece for the Mishcon de Reya website on the return to Parliament this week of the data protection reform legislation

https://www.mishcon.com/news/the-new-data-protection-reform-bill-same-as-old-the-bill