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The UK Court of Appeal found that individuals can be awarded compensation for breaches of data protection laws even where no financial damage exists.

On 30 January 2015, Google signed an Undertaking with the Information Commissioner’s Office (ICO) to improve and amend the Privacy Policy it adopted 1 March 2012.

The UK Employment Appeal Tribunal (the "EAT"), in the case of Atkinson v Community Gateway Association UKEAT/0457/12/BA, dismissed the employee’s claim that his right to privacy had been infringed, and confirmed, more generally, that an employer will be entitled to monitor its employees’ workplace emails and Internet use where a clear policy is in place.

The UK Information Commissioner’s Officer stated that non-media organisations may rely on the special-purposes exemption for journalism in s32 of the Data Protection Act 1998, to withhold personal data in response to Data Subject Access Requests.

In January, Ofcom, the UK telecommunications regulator, published its Statement on 'Promoting investment and innovation in the Internet of Things' (Statement).

In February 2015, Ofgem (the UK’s Office of Gas and Electricity Markets) published its Decision on Extending the Smart Meter Framework to Remote Meters (the Decision).

In June 2013, the Federal Trade Commission and Ireland's Office of the Data Protection Commissioner signed a memorandum of understanding establishing a mutual assistance and information exchange program to secure compliance with data protection and privacy laws on both sides of the Atlantic.

At the end of March, the UK Information Commissioner’s Office released its corporate plan for 2014-2017 titled "Looking ahead, staying ahead".

As 2015 draws to a close, the UK's Data Protection Regulator, the Information Commissioner's Office ('ICO'), is making sure it ends the year with a bang.

A recent High Court decision, TLT and others v Secretary of State for the Home Office [2016] EWHC 2217 (QB) ("TLT v SoS"), paves the way for the greater recognition of distress in cases of data breaches and the misuse of private information.

The early part of 2015 saw major changes to the monetary fines that may be imposed for breaches of the Data Protection Act (‘DPA').

On 28 November 2013, UK Government Department of Business, Innovation and Skills (BIS) announced, following a report on "UK Cyber Security Standards", that a new cyber security standard is to be created based on ISO27000-series.

In July 2014, the High Court (the ‘Court’) considered for the first time the implications of the landmark decision in Google Spain, when delivering an interim judgment in the case of Hegglin v Persons Unknown [2014] EWHC 2808 (the ‘Judgment’).

Last month, the Information Commissioner’s Office published a response to the government’s call for views and evidence on the draft EU Directive on Network and Information Security.

The UK’s First-tier Tribunal has overturned a monetary penalty issued by the Information Commissioner’s Office against the Scottish Borders Council.

he UN General Assembly’s Human Rights Committee has announced that a draft resolution sponsored by Brazil and Germany, ‘The Right To Privacy in the Digital Age,’ has been unanimously approved.

Nobel Prize laureates have joined 562 authors from 81 countries around the world to sign a petition demanding that the UN create an international ‘digital bill of rights’ to put an end to government surveillance activities and the erosion of the human right to privacy in the digital age.