United Kingdom: Privacy

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...

Protecting your business from competitive threats is vital. Losing a team or a key employee to a competitor can be extremely damaging.

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.

Going through a divorce or separating raises very personal and intimate issues that most people want to deal with privately or, failing that, control what personal information is shared publicly.