Company: LBTYK
Filing Date: 2025-02-18
Form Type: 10-K
Source: 0001570585-25-000021
Chunk: 44

Company: Liberty Global Ltd.
Filing Date: 2025-02-18
Form: 10-K
Item: Item 1
Chunk 44
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) Act imposes three key requirements on consumer connectable products: strong password protection, information on how to report security issues to the manufacturer and information on the minimum-security update period.

Through the E.U.’s Radio Spectrum Policy Program, certain spectrum has been approved for mobile broadband use. The terms under which this spectrum becomes available varies among the European countries, and certain uses of this spectrum may interfere with services carried on our cable networks. 

Privacy Regulation 

In January 2017, the European Commission published a proposal for a revised e-Privacy regulation. Negotiations among E.U. Member States are still in process, and we cannot predict the ultimate outcome of these negotiations.  

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In May 2018, the General Data Protection Regulation (GDPR) became effective in the E.U. The GDPR sets strict standards regarding the handling, use and retention of personal data. Organizations that fail to comply face stiff penalties. 

Following the U.K.’s withdrawal from the E.U., the U.K., enacted its own version of the E.U. GDPR through the European Union (Withdrawal) Act, the Data Protection, Privacy and Electronic Communications (Amendments etc) (EU Exit) Regulations 2019 (the U.K. GDPR). The U.K. GDPR, together with the Data Protection Act of 2018, governs the processing of personal data belonging to individuals located in the U.K., including both citizens and residents, and applies to persons or entities in the U.K. or persons or entities located outside the U.K. who offer products and services to U.K. citizens and residents.

The GDPR applies to the European Economic Area (EEA), which includes the E.U. and a number of other countries, but does not include the U.K. When personal data is transferred outside the EEA, special safeguards stemming from the GDPR, such as the adoption of adequacy decisions and the use of standard contractual clauses (SCCs), are enforced to ensure that data is transferred in a protected manner. Adequacy decisions indicate which third countries have sufficiently similar data protection laws in place to those provided under the GDPR. Transfers to an “adequate” third country is compared to a transmission of data within the E.U. 

On June 28, 2021, the European Commission adopted an adequacy decision for the U.K., as the U.K.’s data protection system is based on the same GDPR rules that were applicable when the U.K. was an E.U. Member State. However, the adequacy