Privacy Paths

How did FutureFlow (a start-up business)  win the confidence of the United Kingdom’s ICO’s regulatory sandbox to enable its anti-money laundering service to be ready for the market and also protect personal data?

Share the inside story of how FutureFlow has developed its software with the cooperation of major financial institutions and the financial regulatory authorities to track the flow of money in the international monetary system. FutureFlow’s objective is to be transformative for society by combating multi-billion dollar money laundering, and to enable personal data to be retained by the individual bank while sharing suspicious transactions with the authorities. We show how the ICO was helped in its work by close cooperation with the Financial Conduct Authority. This narrative has an international dimension, as the fight against money laundering does not stop at national borders. 

If your company is doing something daring with personal data, but you are willing to have your positions challenged by exploring the boundaries of data protection law, this podcast will help you to move forwards to achieve a win-win in both commercial and regulatory terms.

We talk to the founder of FutureFlow and the head of regulatory assurance at the UK Regulator. Find out how both sides have benefited and learned from their experience of this one year ICO regulatory sandbox programme.

Participants:

• Chris Taylor, Head of Assurance (Supervision), Information Commissioner’s Office
• Vadim Sobolevski, Co-Founder, FutureFlow
• Helena Wootton, Correspondent and Data Lawyer, Privacy Laws & Business
• Stewart Dresner, Chief Executive, Privacy Laws & Business

See Privacy Paths episode 6 for the first podcast on the ICO’s regulatory sandbox.

If you are interested in applying for the ICO’s Regulatory Sandbox, you can find more information on their website.

A new episode every two weeks. Each episode, we talk to an expert about a different topic in data protection and privacy laws.

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COVID-19: The impact on wellbeing and the use of personal data in HR.

 Helena Wootton talks to Alison Deighton and Jenai Nissim, the Directors and Co-founders of HelloDPO.

What has been the impact of COVID-19 on the mental health and wellbeing of employees? How are organisations balancing their obligations under data protection laws when using employee data to ensure the effective management of their employees? What steps should organisations take with particular care for processing sensitive health data? How should organisations recognise the boundaries between work life and home life when so many people are now working from home? At what point does management monitoring become too intrusive? This podcast provides useful answers to these questions.

A new episode every two weeks. Each episode, we talk to an expert about a different topic in data protection and privacy laws.

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The European Data Protection Board has issued GDPR controller-processor guidelines (for consultation) which define the roles and responsibilities for the different actors. Laura Linkomies talks with Elisabeth Jilderyd, International Legal Advisor and Coordinator, International and EU Department at Sweden’s Data Protection Authority about the controller-processor relationship, joint controllers, drawing up agreements between the parties, and their responsibilities in case of a data breach.

A new episode every two weeks. Each episode, we talk to an expert about a different topic in data protection and privacy laws.

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Innovation and privacy are often regarded as incompatible. They were brought together for mutual advantage in the United Kingdom’s ICO’s regulatory sandbox. Onfido, which provides proof of identity using facial recognition, has now emerged from the sandbox in its first cohort. We discuss with Onfido's Director of Privacy and the ICO’s Head of Assurance how they assessed the risks and took the plunge. Find out how both sides have benefited and learned from their experience of this one year programme. 

Participants: 

• Chris Taylor, Head of Assurance (Supervision), Information Commissioner’s Office 
• Neal Cohen, Director of Privacy, Onfido 
• Helena Wootton, Correspondent and Data Lawyer, Privacy Laws & Business 
• Stewart Dresner, Chief Executive, Privacy Laws & Business 

The article on Onfido’s rationale for entering the sandbox, published in the September 2019 edition of Privacy Laws & Business United Kingdom Report is available free of charge by e-mailing [email protected].

If you’re interested in applying for the ICO’s Regulatory Sandbox, you can find more information on their website.

A new episode every two weeks. Each episode, we talk to an expert about a different topic in data protection and privacy laws.

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The online advertising market is changing rapidly. Regulators are on the case. Consumers are waking up to that fact that their personal data is being used (or mis-used), and are taking back control. How are businesses reacting and what does the future hold for this multi-billion dollar industry. Tom Cooper discusses these issues with privacy lawyer Abigail Dubiniecki, My Inhouse Lawyer.

For more details see Abigail's article: Achieving a privacy-first Adtech digital marketing strategy, in PL&B UK Report July 2020.

See also:

• IAB Europe Guide to the Post Third-Party Cookie Era
• ICO's Update Report into Adtech and Real Time Bidding 

A new episode every two weeks. Each episode, we talk to an expert about a different topic in data protection and privacy laws.

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The end of 2020 and the EU-UK transition period is fast approaching. Valerie Taylor and  Helena Wootton discuss what will happen to international transfers of personal data from the EU to the UK and how should organisations prepare.

A fuller analysis is available in the July 2020 edition of Privacy Laws & Business UK Report.

A new episode every two weeks. Each episode, we talk to an expert about a different topic in data protection and privacy laws.

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In a podcast aimed at licencees and managers, Helena Wootton, Stewart Dresner and Tom Cooper discuss possible data protection pitfalls of collecting data from customers and make some practical suggestions.

Useful links:
UK Government guidance - Keeping workers and customers safe during COVID-19 in restaurants, pubs, bars and takeaway services
https://assets.publishing.service.gov.uk/media/5eb96e8e86650c278b077616/Keeping-workers-and-customers-safe-during-covid-19-restaurants-pubs-bars-takeaways-230620.pdf

Big Hospitality -  Coronavirus track and trace: 7 steps to complying with data protection law
https://www.bighospitality.co.uk/Article/2020/06/24/Coronavirus-track-and-trace-7-steps-to-complying-with-data-protection-law-GDPR-hospitality-restaurants-bars

Note from Stewart Dresner, Privacy Laws & Business:
"I stated in the podcast that retaining personal data for its purpose, in this case for Covid-19 tracing, (the purpose limitation principle) is a longstanding principle going back to the UK’s Data Protection Act 1984. I wrote an article in The Economist  in 1987 reflecting the importance of this principle by referring to the first use of a search warrant by the Data Protection Registrar [the regulator] to investigate a part-time policeman who was suspected of using the Police National Computer to check up on the boyfriend of his daughter. A similar case involving a policeman, who worked part-time as a debt collector, led ultimately to a decision in the UK’s highest court referenced as R. v. Brown [1996] 1 AC543 on interpretation of the Data Protection Act 1984 Section 1 (7)" http://www.legislation.gov.uk/ukpga/1984/35/section/1/enacted

A new episode every two weeks. Each episode, we talk to an expert about a different topic in data protection and privacy laws.

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How have Covid-19 tracing apps addressed data protection issues? Do they work and are there lessons there for all app developers?

Hosted by Tom Cooper, Deputy Editior, with Laura Linkomies, Editor, and Helena Wootton, Data Lawyer and Correspondent.

MIT article on tracing the tracing apps mentioned in the discussion - https://www.technologyreview.com/2020/05/07/1000961/launching-mittr-covid-tracing-tracker/

A new episode every two weeks. Each episode, we talk to an expert about a different topic in data protection and privacy laws.

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In our first podcast, Professor Graham Greenleaf, PL&B Asia Pacific Editor, discusses the privacy aspects of Australia’s CovidSAFE voluntary contact tracing app with Stewart Dresner, Publisher, Helena Wootton, Data Lawyer and PL&B correspondent and Tom Cooper, Deputy Editor.

A fuller analysis is available in the June 2020 edition of Privacy Laws & Business International Report.

A new episode every two weeks. Each episode, we talk to an expert about a different topic in data protection and privacy laws.

Want to keep up with privacy developments? Subscribe to the Privacy Laws & Business International Report and UK Reports at privacylaws.com

Questions or topics you’d like us to cover?
Get in touch at [email protected] or [email protected]