Our expert consultants at Handley Gill share their knowledge and advice on emerging data protection, privacy, responsible AI governance, content regulation, online safety, reputation management, cyber security, information access, human rights and related GRC and ESG issues in our blog.
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Handley Gill’s specialist data protection consultants analyse the Information Commissioner’s Office’s (‘ICO’s’) new data protection complaints framework and identify the ICO’s triaging criteria for escalating complaints and the ICO’s complaints threshold for further investigation and highlight the implications of the ICO’s new approach to data protection complaints handling for data controllers…
July 2026 edition of Handley Gill’s monthly digital newsletter, On Hand, with all the latest developments in data protection (UK, EU and global), cyber security, AI regulation and governance, content regulation, open justice, access to information, reputation management, digital markets regulation, human rights, responsible business & ESG. Presented in a readily digestible digital format, those…
Handley Gill’s specialist AI regulation and governance consultants highlight the new transparency obligations under the EU AI Act on developers and deployers of generative AI systems, AI systems that interact directly with people (like chatbots) and deployers of emotion recognition and biometric categorisation AI systems coming into force with effect from 02 August 2026, and identify what…
Handley Gill’s specialist consultants highlight the implications of the machinery of government changes for technology and digital regulation policy, including data protection, online safety, artificial intelligence (AI), cyber security & resilience and equality and human rights, announced as part of the new Labour Prime Minister Andy Burnham’s policy agenda, including the abolition of the…
Closely following the CJEU’s ruling in C-199/24 ND v Legal Newsdesk Sweden AB, the Court of Appeal judgment in Dale Vince v Associated Newspapers Limited [2026] EWCA Civ 899 impacts the processing of personal data for the purposes of journalism and further demonstrates the limitations of the special purposes exemption and the requirement for publishers to seek to comply with data protection law,…
Handley Gill’s specialist data protection consultants analyse and comment on the impact of the CJEU’s ruling in C-199/24 ND v Legal Newsdesk Sweden AB, in which the Fifth Chamber of the CJEU has significantly narrowed the scope of the concept of processing for journalistic purposes, which attracts derogations from the GDPR and UK GDPR in order to protect the fundamental right to freedom of…
In an era of smart doorbells and smart glasses, where everyone with a phone is a content creator, Handley Gill’s specialist data protection consultants address when processing of personal data is a purely personal or household activity and when it strays into the scope of professional, commercial or other activities which are subject to data protection law under the GDPR and/or UK GDPR.
Handley Gill’s specialist data protection consultants track the evolution of the interpretation of the requirement under the GDPR and UK GDPR that consent be freely given by both EU and UK data protection authorities and courts, the resulting emergence of the so-called ‘consent or pay’ or ‘pay or ok’ models whereby consumers can pay to opt out of or reduce personalised advertising and identify the…
June 2026 edition of Handley Gill’s monthly digital newsletter, On Hand, with all the latest developments in data protection (UK, EU and global), cyber security, AI regulation and governance, content regulation, open justice, access to information, reputation management, digital markets regulation, human rights, responsible business & ESG. Presented in a readily digestible digital format, those…
Handley Gill’s specialist AI regulation and governance consultants identify the impact that the Digital Omnibus on AI will have on the implementation of and obligations on entities in the AI value chain under the EU AI Act.
