Welcome to another episode of GDPR Now, a podcast dedicated to data protection and all things, data

security and privacy. In our episode today, we are discussing class action lawsuits from data breaches,

what business leaders and your DPO needs to know in general and some specifics on the

British Airways case currently going through the courts. We also continue

today a series of podcasts addressing concerns resulting from the coronavirus pandemic and the shift

in working practices for hundreds of thousands of businesses across the UK and indeed the world.

In our studio today, we're delighted to have back, Kingsley Hayes, managing director of

Hayes-Connor Solicitors, based in Woodness, Cheshire. And in this or second episode, Kingsley

and I will be discussing data breach group action lawsuits in general, and as I've said, the BA

one in particular. So, first of all, Kingsley, would you like to introduce yourself, please, for listeners who perhaps haven't heard episode 17?

Thanks, Karen.

It's nice to be back again.

I'm Kingsley Hayes, managing director of Hayes Connoisse Listers.

We're one of only a handful of law firms in the country that specialize in dealing

solely with actions that rise out of data breaches and here today to hopefully be informative

and provide some information around the areas that are current. That's great. Yes, because there seems to be perhaps some confusion around class actions themselves,

how they operate in the UK, how they operate in the US and what is different about them,

and I understand that the proper term for these actions in the UK is group actions.

And so it would be great if you could just give us a bit of a summary for listeners who may be

unfamiliar with what the differences are and the proper terminology.

Certainly. Yeah, class action denotes an action taken on behalf of a large number of individuals.

It is an American term. It is a term that doesn't

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