United Kingdom: Data Protection

Starting June 19, UK data protection law introduces a mandatory requirement for organisations to establish internal complaint procedures before individuals can escalate issues to the Information Commissioner's Office. This procedural shift aims to reduce the ICO's complaint backlog while placing greater responsibility...

Elite athletes generate vast amounts of sensitive health data through wearable technology that feeds into AI systems shaping training, selection, and transfer decisions.

European and UK regulators are implementing sweeping changes to online subscription practices that will fundamentally reshape how businesses handle consumer contracts and cancellations.

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...

The European Union has reached a political agreement to significantly extend compliance deadlines for high-risk AI systems under the AI Act, with businesses now having until December 2027 or August 2028 depending on their category. The revised framework introduces separate timelines for different types of high-risk AI applications, narrows certain definitions, and provides regulatory relief for small and medium-sized companies while adding new prohibitions on non-consensual intimate content generation.

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The Children's Wellbeing and Schools Act has received Royal Assent. It includes a new power enabling the UK government to act quickly in response to findings from the ongoing Children's Digital Wellbeing consultation.