United Kingdom: Privacy

Imagine hackers breach your organisations systems and extract millions of payment card numbers but they cannot actually identify any of the individuals behind those numbers.

On February 19, 2026, the UK Court of Appeal allowed the UK Information Commissioner's Office's ("ICO") appeal against an Upper Tribunal decision in the long-running...

The proposed Crime and Policing Bill (the Bill) represents the next stage in the expansion of corporate criminal liability in the UK, building on the changes already introduced...

In the latest edition of our A&M series, Bryony Long, Rupam Davé and Mark Hersey (Lewis Silkin LLP) were joined by Gary Kibel (Davis + Gilbert LLP) to discuss regulatory changes...

The UK Information Commissioner’s Office (ICO) published its Tech Futures: Agentic AI report on Jan. 8, 2026, offering its first analysis of AI agents. The report underscores that agentic AI introduces fundamentally new data protection challenges and that agentic capabilities magnify existing risks from generative AI.

In a two-pronged approach covering online safety and data protection laws, both Ofcom and the ICO have written to major tech platforms to ask them to enforce their minimum age rules with highly effective age checks.