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NDAs after the Victims and Courts Act 2026: voiding clauses that restrict disclosures of criminal conduct or responses, interaction with the iniquity rule, and drafting steps for commercial agreements
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UK information law weekly: rising cyber security threats, UK-Australia AI safety MoU, ICO confiscation order for unauthorised data access, and updates on deepfakes, direct marketing and PECR breach notification
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UK-Australia AISI Memorandum of Understanding on AI security: information-sharing, joint research, evaluation standards and cyber-attack risk mitigation
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Information law weekly update: EDPB DPIA template, EU age-verification app, EHDS consultation, EDPB 2025 report and UK DSIT enterprise connected device security (16 April 2026)
In this issue: Data protection Cybersecurity Daily and weekly news alerts New and updated content Data protection EDPB unveils DPIA template to bolster uniformity in GDPR compliance workflows The European Data Protection Board (EDPB) has approved a template for Data Protection Impact Assessments (DPIAs), seeking to simplify adherence to the EU’s General Data Protection Regulation, Regulation (EU) 2016/679 (EU GDPR), and to improve consistency and alignment across Europe. The template is designed to help organisations structure, harmonise, substantiate and evidence their DPIA reporting processes, and is accompanied by an explainer document intended to support its practical use. The template is open for public consultation until 9 June 2026. See: LNB News 15/04/2026 22. Commission to launch EU age-verification app The European Commission has announced and confirmed that its EU age verification app is technically ready and complete, and will soon be made available for citizens to use when accessing online...
Data protection in specific activities—overview
This subtopic focuses on adherence to the United Kingdom General Data Protection Regulation, Assimilated Regulation (EU) 2016/679 (UK GDPR), and the Data Protection Act 2018 (DPA 2018) in the context of particular organisational activities. For a general introduction to the data protection framework-covering the principles, the UK GDPR’s ‘assimilated law’ position, legislative terminology, territorial reach, applicability and exemptions-see: Data protection regime-overview and its related subtopic.
For further guidance on the following cross-cutting areas under the UK GDPR, consult the relevant overview and its associated subtopic:
- Accountability, governance and compliance-overview
- Rights of data subjects-overview
- Transparency and privacy policies and notices-overview
- Data sharing and transactions-overview
- International transfers-overview
- Data breaches, sanctions and enforcement-overview
For a collection bringing together key practical guidance, see: UK data protection law collection.
Subjects covered in this subtopic include:
Artificial intelligence
- Artificial intelligence-data protection
- Artificial intelligence (AI) resource kit
- Artificial intelligence-explainability
Autonomous and connected vehicles
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