Five UK Privacy And Data Protection Predictions For 2019

This article by partner Rohan Massey and associate Edward Machin was published by Law360 on February 25, 2019.

2018 was the year that data protection went mainstream. Having once been a topic that most folks treated with a combination of ignorance and inconvenience — "I have to read another privacy policy?" — by the year's end the concept of privacy had firmly entered the public consciousness. Widely viewed congressional hearings on the misuse of personal data, a series of high-profile security breaches at Fortune 500 companies and an episode of "60 Minutes" dedicated to how a European law is influencing U.S. legislators all helped privacy and data security rise to the top of the public, corporate and legislative agendas.