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Sep 4, 2024 | 
lexology.com | Abbie McGregor
In May, the Media Act 2024 (the ‘Act’) received Royal Assent and became law. The Act makes numerous changes to the public service media framework and fundamentally takes forward many of Ofcom’s recommendations. On 23 August 2024, the Secretary of State for Culture, Media and Sport laid down the first commencement regulation before the UK Parliament, bringing certain provisions of the Act into force. What has happened so far?
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Aug 19, 2024 | 
lexology.com | Lucy Pegler |Abbie McGregor
Last week, the Information Commissioner's Office (“ICO”) announced its provisional decision to fine Advanced Computer Software Group Ltd ("Advanced") £6.09m. This followed an initial finding that Advanced failed to implement appropriate cyber security measures to protect the personal data of over 82,000 people, which included sensitive personal information.
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Jul 23, 2024 | 
lexology.com | Abbie McGregor
On 7 June 2024, the High Court passed down a potentially significant judgment in the data protection case of Harrison (H) v Cameron & Another (C).
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Jun 24, 2024 | 
lexology.com | Abbie McGregor |Liz Smith
On the 26 of March 2024, OFCOM published its Plan of Work for 2024/2025 outlining its areas of focus for the upcoming financial year. Alongside this and in response to the Government’s request for key regulators to publish an update on their approach to AI by 30 April 2024, OFCOM also published an updated Strategic Approach to AI (here), which we summarise below.
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Jan 25, 2024 | 
mondaq.com | Abbie McGregor
The Competition and Markets Authority (CMA) are undertaking work
to understand better how consumer protection legislation can be
used to tackle false or misleading environmental claims that affect
consumers. These misleading claims are often referred to as
'greenwashing'.
On 12 December 2023, the CMA announced in a press release that it will scrutinise
green claims made by the consumer goods group Unilever in relation
to some of their products in the fast-moving consumer goods (FMCG)
category.
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Dec 12, 2023 | 
mondaq.com | Abbie McGregor
The Online Safety Act (OSA) is the UK's new comprehensive
legislation intended to ensure the safety of online users. It
places specific obligations upon various online service providers
to this end. The OSA received Royal Assent on 26 October 2023,
following a number of revisions. The majority of its provisions are
expected to come into effect within the next two months.
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Dec 7, 2023 | 
lexology.com | Abbie McGregor
The Online Safety Act is the UK’s new comprehensive legislation intended to ensure the safety of online users. One of the ways OFCOM intends to enact the legislation is by tackling fraudulent advertising onlineThe Online Safety Act (OSA) is the UK’s new comprehensive legislation intended to ensure the safety of online users. It places specific obligations upon various online service providers to this end. The OSA received Royal Assent on 26 October 2023, following a number of revisions.
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Nov 14, 2023 | 
lexology.com | Abbie McGregor
In September 2023, the UK Information Commissioner, John Edwards, and the Chief Executive of the National Cyber Security Centre (NCSC), Lindy Cameron, signed a joint Memorandum of Understanding (MoU) that set out how both organisations will increase levels of collaboration and cooperation. The main areas of collaboration between the organisations will involve developing cybersecurity standards and guidance, as well as improvements in the cybersecurity of regulated organisations.
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Sep 25, 2023 | 
lexology.com | Abbie McGregor
In July 2022, OFCOM published a roadmap setting out plans for its implementation of the Online Safety Bill (“OSB”) and its proposed code of practice on illegal content. OFCOM has recently updated these preparations now that the OSB is at the final stages of the parliamentary process. As we discussed in our recent article (here), there are still many decisions to be made on the application of the OSB.
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Sep 20, 2023 | 
lexology.com | Abbie McGregor
On the 31 August 2023, the House of Commons Science, Innovation and Technology Select Committee published an interim report on its inquiry into the Governance of Artificial Intelligence (AI) (which we wrote about previously here). Burges Salmon is actively engaging with government consultations on AI regulations (you can read our response to the inquiry here and also our response to the UK's White Paper on regulating AI here). The government response is expected by 31 October 2023.
