Morning Workshops 

Workshop A:  Breach Notification: a Deep Dive into What, When and Who to Notify

Peter Given - Partner, EY

This practical Workshop explores the often tricky subject of regulator and data subject notification under the GDPR. It looks at when notification must be made, what needs to be notified (and how this might be done) and who needs to be notified. Case studies and war stories will be used throughout the session to bring the materials to life. In particular, the Workshop covers:

• Assessing the risk of a personal data breach
• Identifying when notification is required and to whom
• The form and approach to notification
• Common challenges and how to overcome them

WORKSHOP B:  Data Transfers – Understanding the New Requirements

Liz Fitzsimons - Partner - Eversheds

We have long been familiar with the need to protect international transfers of personal data. More recently, there have been several changes, including the end of the Brexit transition period and updated standard contractual clauses in the EU and UK, which means that many organisations are having to re-assess their data transfers. This Workshop provides practical guidance and advice, including:  

• Improving your organisation’s approach to transfer risk assessments
• Considering necessary steps to ensure a data transfer is suitably safeguarded
• Understanding key issues and differences between available safeguards, and
• Making effective use of the new forms of standard contractual clauses

WORKSHOP C:  Implications of the Use of New Technologies in the Workplace

Andy Kimble - Partner, Womble Bond Dickinson

The use of new technologies can save time and improve efficiency. However, to ensure compliance with data protection laws, businesses must deploy new technologies, including AI, fairly in the workplace, including having an appropriate framework governing the deployment and sufficient oversight to manage any issues. This Workshop considers:

• Using new technologies in an HR context and the challenges of ensuring compliance with data protection laws at all stages of the employment lifecycle including recruitment
• The increasing opportunities for organisations to use new technologies to monitor employees
• The competing interests between an employer's legitimate interest to ensure productivity in the workplace and an employee's right to privacy
• Understanding what employers can lawfully monitor and what they cannot
• The practical challenges that organisations face in ensuring compliance with both data protection laws and possible future regulation on AI, particularly in light of the divergent approach between the UK and EU to the regulation of AI

Afternoon Workshops

WORKSHOP D:  Cookie Masterclass

Vicki Bowles - Barrister, VWV

Over the years there has been a subtle (and sometimes not so subtle) shift in the rules and culture in relation to cookies. With the release of the European Data Protection Board report on the cookie taskforce earlier this year, the guidance is clear that a stricter approach to consent and choice is required. But what exactly are the rules, and what are the risks in this area? In this Workshop, delegates will:

• Understand the types of cookies that are available for a website to set, and the rules that exist in relation to each type
• Explore different ways of complying with the rules
• Look at the risks involved in various common strategies that have been adopted to date
• Understand what can be done with the information you collect using cookies, and why it can be helpful

WORKSHOP E:  Keeping up With Requirements on Privacy Notices / Transparency - “When is Good, Good Enough?”

Ellis Parry - Privacy Consultant (formally of the ICO)

Post GDPR, organisations benchmarked their initial approach to satisfying their online transparency obligations against where the market practice had settled, usually satisfying themselves that they were “middle of the pack” within the broad consensus that was reached on how to satisfy the GDPR’s requirements. Then the EDPB overruled the Irish DPC with a forensic analysis of WhatsApp’s privacy notice and practices. The EDPB’s broadside has left many controllers wondering whether their current online notices meet the newly clarified standards to achieve transparency. This Workshop includes:

• A refresher of what the GDPR demands
• Examples of how that was interpreted prior to the WhatsApp Decision
• An analysis of the EDPB’s Decision and its impact
• How to benchmark how your organisation’s transparency efforts rank currently
• An analysis of where the transparency goal posts have been moved to and key insights into what will be needed in your organisation to bring transparency efforts up to scratch

WORKSHOP F:   A Practical Guide to Key Aspects of the UK’s Proposed New Data Protection Law

Damien Welfare - Former Public Law Barrister

The UK’s proposed new data protection law, as initially introduced into Parliament last year, contains some important changes of which data protection practitioners need to be aware. Although the new law has yet to reach its final form, the Bill sets a clear direction of travel, and this Workshop includes the following:

• The new definition of “personal data”, in particular the scope and timing of when an individual should be regarded as identifiable
• New lawful basis for processing for “recognised legitimate interests”
• The loosening of the “purpose limitation” principle and its implications
• Replacing DPOs with “Senior Responsible Individuals”
• High Risk processing: ICO consultation to be discretionary