The much-anticipated day has arrived, and the General Data Protection Regulation (GDPR) is finally in force, replacing the Data Protection Act 1998. The way organisations can collect, use and store personal data has radically changed. In the fourth part of an NLJ series this week, David White, senior solicitor, and Tom Morrison, partner, Rollits LLP, look at the many changes and challenges that still lie ahead. For, as White and Morrison say, ‘the potential consequences for getting it wrong have been amplified significantly’. See Parts 1, 2 and 3.
25 May 2018
GDPR day arrives
MOVERS & SHAKERS
Harneys—Maggie Kwok & George Weston
Harneys senior leadership appointments
Freeths—Keith Browne & Jim Jordan
Freeths strengthens London Construction and Engineering practice with two strategic senior hires
Anthony Collins—Laura Moss
Anthony Collins announces strategic hire to deepen skills base in the social business sector
NEWS
More than 100 teams from the legal and financial services sectors competed in five sports at the 51st Law Society RFC Festival of Sport earlier this month
Part-time status need only be an effective cause of less favourable treatment, rather than the sole cause, the Supreme Court has held in Augustine v Data Cars
Britain’s new acknowledgement that Israel’s occupation is unlawful, and accompanying settlement-goods ban and sanctions, is significant but overdue, argue Danny Friedman KC and Victor Kattan in NLJ this week
New planning fee rises, wider trade union access rights and a service-by-email trap feature in Stephen Gold’s latest Civil Way
Existing defamation law can respond to AI ‘hallucinations’, but allocating responsibility will prove harder where outputs reach users without human intervention
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