United Kingdom: Data Protection

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On 15 May 2026, the UK Information Commissioner's Office (the ICO) updated both its brief guidance on using children's personal data (the Brief Guidance)...

The Information Commissioner’s Office (ICO) issued a monetary penalty of £963,900 against South Staffordshire Plc and South Staffordshire Water Plc following a significant cyber attack that resulted...

UK and EU financial firms operating across borders face dual cyber incident reporting obligations under both the UK's new operational incident rules and the EU's Digital Operational Resilience Act (DORA).

This update contains submissions from Dentons colleagues across the world, from the UK and EU to North America and Asia.

The United Kingdom has launched its Self-Driving Vehicle Pilot Scheme, establishing the first lawful pathway for fully driverless commercial operations on British roads. Businesses seeking to deploy autonomous vehicles must navigate a multi-layered approval process involving vehicle certification, special orders, and passenger service permits. With the government forecasting 38,000 new jobs and a £42 billion industry by 2035, this regulatory framework marks a pivotal moment for automated driving system

This was the consensus from a panel we convened with advertising lawyers from five jurisdictions around the globe to take stock of where AI meets the advertising sector.

Over five years after Brexit, many intellectual property agreements drafted before the UK's EU departure may contain ambiguous territorial scope provisions.

The FCA has issued its open finance roadmap, saying that open finance has the potential to be the next major step in the UK's smart data revolution. Banking and financial services occupy...