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Data Protection

Whether it’s protecting a trade secret, licensing out your IP to another company, or drafting an NDA, we cover everything there is to know about data protection in this section of our blog. Check out the six most popular posts on the subject below. Plus, with new posts added each month, there’s plenty for you to dig into and discover.

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Most popular posts about Data Protection

Data Protection September 5, 2023

Why Do I Need A Non-Disclosure Agreement For My Business?

A non-disclosure agreement (NDA) is a contract that legally binds two parties to not share confidential information with third parties. In simpler terms, an NDA is a tool that helps…
Data Protection May 4, 2020

Confidential Information – who do you trust to keep your secret recipe?

During this unknown time of being in lockdown in the UK, you only have to go on Instagram to find that many of us are trying to recreate our favourite…
Data Protection June 26, 2016

What is personal confidential information?

Don’t mention the war It may surprise you to read that under English law and unlike in the USA, there is no absolute right to keep personal information confidential. However,…
Data Protection October 28, 2016

Protecting your ideas and know how – Confidential Information

Do you pitch ideas and designs as part of a tender or potential investment deal? Does your employee have access to your client lists? Does your manufacturer have detailed information…
IP Disputes July 29, 2011

Breach of confidence claims against ex-employees

It’s not that unusual for an ex-employee to leave and start a competing business. many employers rely on thinking that if that ex-employee contacts clients or uses confidential or trade…
IP Disputes June 22, 2016

Suing company directors for IP breach

When identifying who to sue for intellectual property infringement, generally the company infringing the intellectual property rights is named as a defendant in the infringement action and not the directors…

Latest Blog Posts on Data Protection

Copyright May 15, 2019

The perils of posting on social media

The perils of posting on social media Who doesn’t love social media? We all tweet, post, share, and upload like there is no tomorrow. It allows us to directly reach…
Data Protection March 27, 2019

Do photographers always require signed image release forms?

In short – sometimes they will, sometimes they won’t. The key issues at play are: i)                    does a photograph amount to “personal data”?; and ii)                   did the individual being photographed…
Data Protection February 14, 2019

GDPR: What is “Personal Data”?

We see the question asked time and time again: “what information is considered to be personal data?”. And rightfully so. Having a clear understanding of information that is (and is…
Data Protection January 23, 2019

GDPR Fine-O-Meter Rockets after Google Ruling

The GDPR Fine-O-Meter has rocketed with news that the French authorities have fined Google 50 Million Euros for data breaches under the GDPR. Introduced in May 2018, the regulations which…
Data Protection October 10, 2018

So Google doesn’t owe us after all – action by data privacy group dismissed

A bid by a group called ‘Google You Owe us’ has had its claim for compensation against Google for privacy breaches thrown out by the High Court. Led by former…
Data Protection July 31, 2018

Apple ex-employee bites into its trade secrets

A former employee of Apple, Xialong Zhang, has been charged with the theft of Apple’s confidential information and trade secrets and faces up to 10 years imprisonment and a fine…
Data Protection July 23, 2018

An0nym1s3d D4ta

The General Data Protection Regulation, or ‘GDPR’, has finally settled in. As you have no doubt heard, “personal data” lies at the very core of the new regulation, but not…
Data Protection May 1, 2018

GDPR: privacy by design costs nothing

The GDPR, which I’m sure you have heard about by now, comes into force by 25 May 2018. We have written a series of articles regarding the most important matters…
Data Protection February 14, 2018

GDPR: No consent required, but what is “legitimate interest”?

Last week I wrote about why “consent”, in many cases, will not be required from data subjects in order to process data under the GDPR. In brief, there are many…
Data Protection February 5, 2018

GDPR – Why you DON’T need to obtain Consent

Four months and counting… The GDPR comes into force on 25 May. Widely publicised as one of the biggest legal shake-ups in years, many businesses are understandably apprehensive about how…
Data Protection March 29, 2017

Google Play Threatens to Remove Apps without Privacy Policies

Google Play have been sending out notices to app developers without privacy policies in their store, threatening to switch off the lights if you do not put an adequate privacy…
Data Protection November 30, 2016

What’s ‘Appening with Facebook?

Introduction On 25 August 2016, WhatsApp announced that it was changing its terms and privacy policy to (among other things) allow communications with businesses (e.g. potentially an airline could inform…
Data Protection October 28, 2016

Protecting your ideas and know how – Confidential Information

Do you pitch ideas and designs as part of a tender or potential investment deal? Does your employee have access to your client lists? Does your manufacturer have detailed information…
Data Protection October 7, 2016

A – bit too much TalkTalk!! – £400,000.00 fine for data breach

The Information Commissioner’s Office (“ICO”) has issued a record monetary penalty of £400,000 against telecommunications group TalkTalk under the Data Protection Act 1998. The fine is for serious contraventions of…
Data Protection July 21, 2016

EU Trade Secrets Directive and Panama Papers

The leak of the Panama Papers highlighted an unprecedented disclosure of 11.5m files from the database of one of the world’s largest offshore law firm, Mossack Fonseca. The records were…
Data Protection June 26, 2016

What is personal confidential information?

Don’t mention the war It may surprise you to read that under English law and unlike in the USA, there is no absolute right to keep personal information confidential. However,…
Data Protection June 26, 2016

Data protection with mobile apps

As part of a global body, 26 privacy regulators from across the world have surveyed 1,211 mobile apps to investigate the transparency of their privacy practices. Of those, the UK’s…
Data Protection June 25, 2016

Data Protection breach risk

ICO Fines NHS Surrey In July, the Information Commissioner’s Office (the ICO) fined NHS Surrey £200,000 as a result of NHS Surrey providing at least 1,570 computers with hard drives…
Data Protection May 22, 2016

Privacy injunctions in a viral world

A free-standing right to privacy in the UK and the celebrity threesome everyone already knows about??? 3 feet in a bed If you believe everything the UK tabloid press tells…

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