BCL associate Greta Barkle and legal assistant Guevara Leacock’s latest article discussing the draft Online Safety Bill has been published by The Law Society Gazette.
BCL associate Greta Barkle and legal assistant Guevara Leacock’s article ‘The Online Safety Bill – Does It Go Far Enough?’ has been published by Lawyer Monthly.
BCL associate Greta Barkle and legal assistant Guevara Leacock‘s article, analysing the long-awaited Online safety Bill, has been published by InfoSecuriy.
BCL legal assistant Guevara Leacock has been admitted to the Bar of The Eastern Caribbean Supreme Court and is now qualified to take instructions and act for persons living in that jurisdiction. Guevara is associated with a firm in his native St. Vincent and the Grenadines, a part of the Eastern Caribbean jurisdiction, with which he completed his internship. He is also qualified to be registered with the Solicitors Regulation Authority as a Qualified Foreign Lawyer in the UK.
The dust has not yet settled on the Information Commissioner’s fine imposed on British Airways (BA) in October 2020, but the company now faces the largest group claim over a data breach in the UK’s history. A similar claim has been brought against TalkTalk following a 2014/15 cyber-attack on the telecoms giant, though in that case far fewer people were affected. With not only hefty regulatory fines and reputational damage but also the threat of expensive civil litigation for data breaches, the pressure is on for data controllers and processors to check they are doing enough to protect their customers personal data.
BCL partner Julian Hayes and Legal Assistant Guevara Leacock’s article titled ‘TalkTalk and BA Data Breaches – The Lasting Aftershocks!’ has been published by Lawyer Monthly.
BCL partner Julian Hayes and legal assistant Guevara Leacock‘s article titled ‘ GDPR fines: Can third party service providers be fined for the privacy lapses?’ has been published by Startups Magazine.
Guevara J Leacock and Michael Drury‘s article analysing the recent GDPR fine of Marriott International and what companies can learn has been published by Lawyer Monthly.
On October 30th, 2020, The Information Commissioner’s Office (“ICO”) announced its fine of £18.4 million issued to Marriott International, Inc., (“Marriott”) for violations of the General Data Protection Regulation (“GDPR”). This is a significant decrease from the proposed fine of £99.2 million announced by the ICO in July 2019 (see our previous article here) against the background of Marriott’s security breach reported to have lasted some four years between 2014 to 2018, with the fine relating to the breach only from the point at which the GDPR came into force in May 2018. It is the second largest GDPR fine levied by the regulator thus far, behind that imposed on British Airways. To date, Marriott has not admitted liability for the breach, but the major international hotel operator has indicated that it does not plan to appeal the decision.
