Privacy Law and Privacy Regulations

As we predicted in our Lewis Silkin's data, privacy & cyber team watch outs for 2026 "Children's data remains a global priority. There is a clear expectation that platforms popular with children will demonstrate end-to-end...

Further to our update here, several significant provisions of the UK's Data (Use and Access) Act 2025 (the "Act") that are relevant for employers came into force on February 5, 2026, with further measures scheduled for June 19, 2026. We summarize these below.

Organisations need to ensure that their processes for handling data protection complaints meet new rules under the Data (Use and Access) Act 2025 (DUAA) ahead of a 19 June 2026 deadline.

As we predicted in our Lewis Silkin's data, privacy & cyber team watch outs for 2026 "Children's data remains a global priority. There is a clear expectation that platforms popular with children will demonstrate end-to-end...

Further to our update here, several significant provisions of the UK's Data (Use and Access) Act 2025 (the "Act") that are relevant for employers came into force on February 5, 2026, with further measures scheduled for June 19, 2026. We summarize these below.

Four weeks. That's all it took for UK regulators to launch co-ordinated investigations into Grok's "put her in a bikini" debacle - the AI trend that publicly undressed real women and children without their consent.