The Squire Patton Boggs Data Protection & Cyber Security team is pleased to share with you a weekly alert on data privacy issues. This week’s alert covers UK, EU and international news.

UK

  • ICO Warns Against Use of Surveillance as New CCTV Code of Practice is Released
  • ICO Takes the Unusual Step of Querying Legal Basis for Data Processing

EU

  • Commission Pledges €2.5 Billion in Big Data PPP Project
  • Partial Agreement Reached on the Data Protection Regulation
  • Google Publishes Statistics on Right to be Forgotten Requests
  • New Report Highlights the Scale of Data Losses over the Last Decade

International

  • Agreement Reached on International Data Protection Enforcement
  • New Privacy Guidance for the Banking Sector in Hong Kong