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Information Law weekly highlights—4 October 2018

Published on: 04 October 2018
Published by: LexisPSL
  • Information Law weekly highlights—4 October 2018
  • In this issue:
  • Data protection
  • STS Commercial successfully appeals ICO £60,000 fine over spam texts
  • Manchester firm fined £150,000 for nuisance marketing calls
  • ICO fines Bupa for systemic data protection failures
  • ICO highlights GDPR strategy at European Data Protection Board meeting
  • Cybersecurity
  • Memorandum of Understanding to fight hackers and fraudsters set up
  • Global cost of cybersecurity issues could be £6trn by 2021, report finds
    • More...

Article summary

This week’s edition of Information Law highlights includes: details on a successful appeal to the Information Commissioner’s Office of a monetary penalty notice issued over spam texts as well as details on fines issued to a Manchester firm for nuisance marketing and Bupa for systematic data protection failures, alongside a discussion of the potential increase in global costs of cybersecurity by 2021 and a Brexit bulletin regarding preparations six months ahead of exit day. or take a trial to read the full analysis.

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