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MLex: The European Commission is pressing ahead with finalising a Code of Practice for general-purpose AI (GPAI) model developers, intended as a key...
Parliament passed the Data (Use and Access) Bill (DUA Bill) on 11 June 2025. First introduced in October 2024, this passage concludes a protracted...
Welcome to this week鈥檚 edition of the Information Law weekly highlights: a hand-picked summary of news analysis, updates and new content related to...
The Information Commissioner鈥檚 Office (ICO) has launched a strategy to intensify regulatory oversight of AI and biometric technologies, focusing on...
MLex: The UK鈥檚 Data (Use and Access) Bill faces increasing risk of collapse after the House of Lords again pushed forward an amendment to include in...
Surveillance and intelligence gathering powers of the FCASTOP PRESS: The Investigatory Powers (Amendment) Act 2024 (IP(A)A 2024) received Royal Assent...
The regulation of intelligence gathering鈥攁n introductory guideSTOP PRESS: The Investigatory Powers (Amendment) Act 2024 (IP(A)A 2024) received Royal...
Cloud computing鈥攄ata protectionIn briefData protection laws in both the EEA (the EU plus Iceland, Norway, and Liechtenstein) and UK seek to ensure...
Artificial intelligence鈥攄ata protectionThis Practice Note provides a summary of UK data protection law as it applies to the use of artificial...
The Data (Use and Access) BillThis Practice Note provides a summary of the key aspects of the Data (Use and Access) Bill (DUA) from an information law...
Policy鈥攊nformation security1Introduction1.1The Company is committed to the highest standards of information security and treats confidentiality and...
Claim form (defamation)鈥攖he contentsThe purpose of the claim formThe claim form is the document used to start proceedings. It contains information...
Sustainability glossary terms (The Chancery Lane Project)These Precedent sustainability definitions, produced by The Chancery Lane Project (TCLP) as...
Hardship clauseHardship鈥eans[, subject to clause [1.6 OR 1.7],] a [fundamental OR material] change in the balance of a party鈥檚 benefits and...
Retained EU law鈥攖raining materials [Archived]ARCHIVED: This Precedent has been archived and is not maintained.These training materials consist of...
The UK General Data Protection Regulation (UK GDPR)鈥擭avigatorThis Practice Note serves as a reference guide to the Retained Regulation (EU) 2016/679...
Privacy law鈥攎isuse of private informationThe tort of misuse of private information is focused on 鈥榯he protection of human autonomy and dignity鈥攖he...
Confidentiality agreement鈥攎utualThis Agreement is made on [date]Parties1[insert name of party] [of [insert details ] OR a company incorporated in...
The Information Commissioner鈥檚 Office (ICO)The Information Commissioner鈥檚 Office (ICO) is the UK鈥檚 independent regulator designed to uphold...
The UK General Data Protection Regulation (UK GDPR)This Practice Note provides a summary of the UK GDPR regime. For a higher-level introduction to UK...
Letter of claim鈥攂reach of confidence[Insert name and address of recipient]Dear [insert organisation name],[Name of client] and confidential...
Trade secrets and confidential information鈥攑rotection and enforcementThis Practice Note sets out the protection available for trade secrets and...
Introduction to the EU GDPR and UK GDPRThis Practice Note provides a high-level introduction to the EU鈥檚 General Data Protection Regulation,...
Data protection, privacy and confidential information case law trackerThis Practice Note tracks noteworthy High Court, Court of Appeal and Supreme...
Commercial use of photographs鈥攄ata protection and privacy issuesThis Practice Note addresses issues affecting professional photographers taking...
Letter of claim鈥攂reach of data protection law[Insert name and address of recipient]Dear [insert organisation name],[Name of client] and breach of data...
What does IP completion day mean for Information Law? [Archived]ARCHIVED: This Practice Note has been archived and is not maintained.11 pm (GMT) on 31...
Confidential information, privacy and injunctionsThis Practice Note deals with the general principles of obtaining an injunction relating to...
The Data Protection Act 2018This Practice Note introduces the UK鈥檚 Data Protection Act 2018 (DPA 2018).For higher-level introductions to data...
HTML is a programming language read by browsers to display websites correctly. HTML 5 is the fifth version of the HTML language and contains functionality that allows information to be stored locally within the browser鈥檚 data files. HTML 5 local storage operates in a similar way to HTTP cookies but differs in that it can hold greater amounts of information and does not rely on an exchange of data with the website鈥檚 server.
Public authorities and public bodies often carry out activities involving personal data. The terms 鈥榩ublic authority鈥 and 鈥榩ublic body鈥 are used throughout the GDPR regimes, including within several of the definitions, but are not expressly defined. The EDPB considers that under the EU GDPR: 鈥 these notions are broad enough to include both public bodies in third countries and 鈥榠nternational organisations鈥 (ie an organisation and its subordinate bodies governed by public international law, or any other body which is set up by, or on the basis of, an agreement between two or more countries) 鈥 with respect to public bodies in third countries, the notion is to be determined under domestic law 鈥 public bodies include government authorities at different levels (eg national, regional and local authorities) and also other bodies governed by public law (eg executive agencies, universities, hospitals and so on)
鈥渞egistrable estate or charge鈥 means the legal estate and any charge which is sought to be registered as a registered estate or registered charge in an application for first registration,