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Information Law weekly highlights—28 May 2020

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Published on: 28 May 2020

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Table of contents

Coronavirus (COVID-19)
New legislation unnecessary for safety of NHS tracing app
Reputation management
BrewDog defamation claim struck out (BrewDog Plc v Frank Public Relations Ltd)
Data protection
UK Adtech receives new guidance to address the privacy challenges of real time bidding in programmatic advertising
Updated data protection impact assessment template published
Brexit
Brexit Bulletin—Frost and Gove questioned on UK-EU future relationship
European Commission updates transition guidance including that relating to security of network and information systems

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Article summary

This week’s edition of Information Law weekly highlights includes: news that the Secretary of State for Health and Social Care has rejected the need for a Digital Contact Tracing (Data Protection) Bill and analysis of a recent reputation management case. It also includes analysis of a guide to the privacy challenges of real time bidding in programmatic advertising and news of recent developments relating to Brexit.

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