Artificial intelligence ('AI') is now all around us, but are there areas where we should limit if, and how, AI is used? The development of AI across sectors that require particularly high moral and ethical standards (such as healthcare, education, and defence) has led to important questions around AI ethics as a whole: how can machine learning be, and stay, transparent, fair, moral, and unbiased?

In this Insight article, Charlotte Kingman, Associate at Ashfords LLP, gives an overview of ethical challenges arising from the use of AI and highlights key considerations businesses should take into account for a responsible use of this technology.

The Information Commissioner's Office ('ICO') has updated its guidance on international data transfers, including the publication of a new transfer risk assessment ('TRA') tool which it positions as 'an alternative approach'¹ to the assessment methodology established by the European Data Protection Board ('EDPB') in its Recommendations 01/2020 on measures that supplement transfer tools to ensure compliance with the EU level of protection of personal data² ('the Recommendations'), which set out its methodology of 'transfer impact assessments' or 'TIAs'. Mark Webber, Managing Partner at Fieldfisher (Silicon Valley) LLP, provides insight into how the ICO's new TRA tool compares to the EDPB's TIA.

During the Conservative Party Conference 2022, the Department for Digital, Culture, Media and Sport ('DCMS') announced its plans to replace the UK General Data Protection Regulation (Regulation (EU) (2016/679) ('UK GDPR') with a new bespoke data protection regime built from scratch¹. Michelle Donelan, the Secretary of State for DCMS, announced that the planned bespoke regime is aimed to further simplify the UK data protection regime due to the UK GDPR 'limiting the potential' of UK businesses. It was also stated that the Government believes it can maintain data adequacy in accordance with regimes similar to Israel, Japan, South Korea, Canada, and New Zealand.

JP Buckley, Partner at DWF, will provide insight into the DCMS' announcement and analyse how those countries listed above achieve data adequacy.

In 2015, the UK Government enacted new modern slavery legislation in the form of the Modern Slavery Act 2015 ('the MSA'). Katherine Tyler, Legal Counsel at Kingsley Napley LLP, discusses offences under the MSA, breaks down the significance and challenges of the slavery and human trafficking statement, and gives an overview over possible next steps.