
Data Protection News Update 13 July 2026
United Kingdom Prince Harry’s privacy case against Daily Mail dismissed by High Court ICO fines home improvement firms £370,000 for illegal marketing calls United States

United Kingdom Prince Harry’s privacy case against Daily Mail dismissed by High Court ICO fines home improvement firms £370,000 for illegal marketing calls United States

United Kingdom Sainsbury’s deploys facial recognition cameras Apple faces £3bn UK class action over alleged iCloud monopoly United States US Supreme Court FTC ruling threatens

United Kingdom ICO fines debt marketing firm £300,000 for illegal spam campaign ICO calls for stronger data protection training across the NHS New UK data

United Kingdom University of Nottingham student record system breached by cybercriminals UK and EU expand data sharing to track overseas criminal vehicles United States Anthropic

United Kingdom Prime Minister Kier Starmer to ban social media in the UK for under 16s The UK’s Information Commissioner John Edwards has been temporarily

United Kingdom OpenAI expands bank access to AI cybersecurity tool NHS Trust reveals patient data exposed in ransomware attack ICO secures £118,000 from former RAC

United Kingdom The UK government signed a three-year contract with to develop and trial AI facial estimation technology at borders, aiming to prevent adult migrants

United Kingdom ICO puts forward recommendation to extend cookie consent exemptions to contextual advert cookies only 11 NHS staff members sacked for inappropriately accesses medical

United Kingdom HMRC to deploy AI to detect fraud and tax return mistakes South Staffordshire Water fined nearly £1m following major cyber-attack and data breach

United Kingdom How does live facial recognition work and how many UK police forces use it? United States NYC public schools get lousy grade on