NADPO's next free lunchtime webinar for members is Tues 28th April 12.30pm – 2pm

Prof. Paul Bernal – “The privacy implications of age verification.”

Dr Judith Townend - “Justice data ditches and droughts: some recent case studies.

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Member’s Free Webinar Tues 24th Mar 12.30pm

William Richmond-Coggan “Trivial Pursuits: Without a threshold of seriousness, what next for data breach litigation?”

Nicole Bennett "The Digital Dragnet: ICE, Mass Surveillance, and the Datafication of Immigration Enforcement."

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Do you have any interesting topics to share on our free monthly webinars for members? Get in touch!

NADPO Regional In-person Conference – Birmingham

February 25th 2026. 11:00 am - 4:00 pm

Carrs Lane Church, an easy walk from Birmingham New St Station

Tickets free to NADPO members, £50 non-members. Book now nadpo.co.uk/event/region...

** Merry Christmas & a Happy New Year! **

The NADPO Executive Committee would like to extend their best wishes for Christmas to all members. We hope you have a lovely festive break!

WE’LL BE BACK IN THE NEW YEAR. IN-PERSON CONFERENCE IN FEB & MONTHLY ONLINE WEBINARS IN MARCH.

Regional In-person Conference 25th Feb 2026 – Birmingham

Free to NADPO members, £50 non-members.

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A massive thank you to all speakers, delegates and NADPO exec members for today's fantastic conference! We'll see you after summer when we re-start our monthly online webinars. #NADPObham25

Declan McDowell-Naylor from @iconews wraps up #NADPObham25 updating delegates on all things AI that the ICO are working on. Their latest strategy, launched last week, is here: ico.org.uk/about-the-ic...

If you want to read more about William Webster's work on surveillance, check out the CRISP blogs and news on their website: www.crisp-surveillance.com/search/node/... #NADPObham25

Professor William Webster of the University of Stirling is sharing his expertise on surveillance & how the DUA Bill secures, rather than loses, some surveillance oversight & safeguards. He starts with a look back at the Protection of Freedoms Act 2012... there's a blast from the past. #NADPObham25

Tash Whitaker talking to #NADPObham25 about outsourced DPOs. What are the Pros and Cons? Some great tips for those of you offering DPO as a service or thinking about setting up.

Please take part in Kirstie Ball's research on looking at the ICO's guidance on employee monitoring. #NADPObham25

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You can find out more about how to carry out lawful employee monitoring by reading the ICO guidance: ico.org.uk/for-organisa... #NADPObham25

Kirstie Ball from St Andrews University telling the #NADPObham25 conference about her latest interesting research into employee monitoring... and looking at how DPOs can help make it fair in the workplace. Conference delegates are going to be getting involved today in research.

Saara Idelbi says that another recent case which discussed subject access requests in detail was the Ashley v HMRC [2025] EWHC 134 (KB) case.

You can read the high court judgement here: www.judiciary.uk/wp-content/u...

#NADPObham25

Check out cases: Österreichische Datenschutzbehörde (Demandes excessive) Case C-416/23, 9 January 2025 and [2024] EWHC 3575 (KB) 13 December 2014. #NADPObham25 2/2

Saara Idelbi addressing the conference about Subject Access Requests and looking at caselaw where manifestly excessive and unfounded has been analysed. Is it too much? Is it too broad? 1/2 #NADPObham25

Our panel Saara Idelbi, Jon Baines & Ibrahim Hasan are taking questions & giving their thoughts on the DUA Bill. Concerns about automated processing without our knowledge, increased marketing emails from charities & what the government will allow data to be used for. #NADPObham25

Ibrahim Hasan doesn't expect anything to happen for a year or so if it's passed soon. The decision on the UK's adequacy will be made by the EU once it's adopted. #NADPObham25

There are also concerns over automated processing and the potential for more personal data it to be used without the data subject being able to object. #NADPObham25

Ibrahim highlights the potential concerns around the extension of Purpose Limitation where annexe 2 of the Bill could be added to and a 'Trojan Horse' effect could see all sorts of reasons added to use data for things it wasn't originally collected for. #NADPObham25

ActNowTraining 's Ibrahim Hasan is pondering the Data (Use and Access) Bill as it ping pongs though the legislative process. He's highlighting some of the changes the bill may present to us, and also what has been taken out. #NADPObham25

NADPO's regional conference is opened by Chair, @jonbainesdata.bsky.social We're looking forward to a day of fascinating speakers. #NADPObham25

We’re looking forward to seeing many of you at our regional in-person conference today in Birmingham! We’ll be posting updates using hashtag #NADPObham25

NADPO Member's Webinar 27th May 12.30pm - 2pm

David Erdos, University of Cambridge - "Whither public enforcement of UK data protection?"

Jingrong Tong, University of Sheffield - "UK ‘at risk of evolving into propaganda regime’ with unenforced FOI rules and official secrecy"

Tickets now available for our regional conference in Birmingham on June 11th. Free to NADPO members.

NADPO is delighted to announce an In-Person Regional Conference on June 11th in Birmingham.

Book your tickets now. Free to members

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Our next free lunchtime webinar is Tuesday 22nd April 2.30pm – 2pm:

Alex Homer, BBC Shared Data Unit – “NPCC – The police FOI gatekeepers.”

Dave Morris, The Campaign Opposing Police Surveillance – “Turning the tables on the Spycops – the Met, McLibel and movements for change.”

Next free webinar is Tues 25th March 12.30pm

Judith Townend "Participatory law and policymaking: learning from ‘open justice’ and other data/technology contexts"

Dr Lachlan Urquhart​​ "Clever Computing through Accountable Design: Cybersecurity in Smart Homes"

Link will be sent on Monday.