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Practice Compliance weekly highlights—3 June 2021

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Published on: 03 June 2021

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Table of contents

Data protection
ICO seeks views on first chapter of anonymisation guidance
EDPB writes to Commission on the protection of personal data in AML-CFT
Financial crime
EU’s new corruption watchdog launched to fight fraud
MP pushes crackdown on lawyers who enable tax avoidance
Sanctions and Anti-Money Laundering Act 2018 (Commencement No 3) Regulations 2021
Insurance
Law Society publishes response to SRA cyber insurance consultation
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This week’s edition of Practice Compliance weekly highlights includes draft guidance on anonymisation and pseudonymisation, a new EU public prosecutor designed to fight financial crime and a call for a crackdown on lawyers who enable unlawful tax avoidance.

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