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23 May 2019 / David White
Issue: 7841 / Categories: Features , Data protection
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Mind the GDPR: a year on

David White provides a review of the last year in the data protection world & considers future challenges
  • The impact of the GDPR one year on from its implementation.
  • Potential challenges the data protection world could face in light of technological advances.

Anyone who has seen Apple’s recent advert for its latest iPhone will have noticed that the advert is centred on privacy, declaring: ‘If privacy matters in your life, it should matter to the phone your life is on’. Apple has historically made privacy a focal point in the design of its products and used it as a selling tool in its marketing campaigns. The latest advert is, however, a step up and certainly intends to leave the viewer in no doubt that Apple takes data protection seriously.

The timing of the advert is not inconsequential: it arrived on our screens weeks after a FaceTime bug was discovered which enabled individuals to make calls via the Apple platform and listen to the recipient’s audio without the recipient having

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MOVERS & SHAKERS

Harneys—Maggie Kwok & George Weston

Harneys—Maggie Kwok & George Weston

Harneys senior leadership appointments

Freeths—Keith Browne & Jim Jordan

Freeths—Keith Browne & Jim Jordan

Freeths strengthens London Construction and Engineering practice with two strategic senior hires

Anthony Collins—Laura Moss

Anthony Collins—Laura Moss

Anthony Collins announces strategic hire to deepen skills base in the social business sector

NEWS
Existing defamation law can respond to AI ‘hallucinations’, but allocating responsibility will prove harder where outputs reach users without human intervention
The High Court has upheld a rare successful serious-irregularity challenge after an arbitrator relied on an implied term neither party had advanced
Thirty years after The Future of Law shook a profession still using fax machines, its central forecast looks increasingly less like prophecy and more like description
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
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