01 May, 2024 Data in the Driver’s Seat: What Boards Need to Know about Data Governance By Beth George Christine Lyon Pamela Marcogliese Artificial intelligence (AI) – and particularly generative AI – has accelerated the race toward ever more innovative data-driven products...
16 Jan, 2024 Preparing for the Risks Ahead: From Geopolitical Instability to Congressional Gridlock and Investigations By Beth George Andrew Dockham Sean Quinn The beginning of the year is a good time to examine and prepare for business and legal risks companies will be facing this year. The...
29 Nov, 2023 The California Privacy Protection Agency Releases a First Draft of Automated Decisionmaking Opt-Out and Access Regulations By Christine Lyon Christine Chong The California Privacy Protection Agency (CPPA) has been steadily making strides to progress rulemaking under the California Consumer...
10 May, 2023 Worklife 2.0: Employers of record – the sky is the limit? Part 5 – Data protection By Satya Staes Polet Irem Güzel Géraldine Jaffrès In our Worklife 2.0 series (see our previous blog posts here, here, here and here), we have discussed the increase in the number of...
03 May, 2023 Compensation claims after cyberattacks – EU Court of Justice Advocate General’s opinion By Michael Schwaab Christoph Werkmeister Adam Gillert On 27 April 2023, Advocate General Giovanni Pitruzella delivered his opinion in Case C-340/21 (not available in English) regarding a...
20 Apr, 2023 German government paper confirms current trends in employee data protection law By Tibor Szigetvari Hendrik Witt Julia Förster Sebastian Rombey +1 more... Show less The core German legal basis for processing employee personal data was recently annulled by the European Court of Justice (CJEU). The...
06 Feb, 2023 Updated Data Protection and Cybersecurity Guidelines for International Arbitration By Maria Paz Lestido Lee Rovinescu Christine Lyon The international arbitration community has been increasing its attention to data protection and cybersecurity issues. Given the...
17 Nov, 2022 OFAC Redesignates “Tornado Cash” as US Regulators Continue Targeting Virtual Currency By Timothy Howard Nabeel Yousef Brock Dahl Stephanie Brown Cripps Andrew Bulovsky Adam Silow +3 more... Show less On August 8, 2022, the US Treasury Department’s (Treasury) Office of Foreign Assets Control (OFAC) announced that it designated the...
11 Oct, 2022 Data privacy litigation: claiming non-material damages likely to become more difficult By Martin Mekat Christoph Werkmeister Robert Barton Christoph Clausen Dawid Ligocki +2 more... Show less Actions for non-material damages following (alleged) infringements of the General Data Protection Regulation (GDPR) have been on the rise...
18 May, 2022 Data Scraping Does It Again By Mili Astesiano Menachem Kaplan Timothy Howard Once again, hiQ wins the day in the continuous data scraping saga. In the most recent ruling, the U.S. Ninth Circuit Court of Appeals...
11 Apr, 2022 The ICO turns its focus to ransomware attacks – key takeaways By Rhodri Thomas Christine Simpson Henrietta Kent Recent action by the Information Commissioner’s Office (ICO) makes clear that protecting the public from ransomware attacks is a key...
07 Mar, 2022 UAE’s new data protection law provides more transparency and enhanced rights—meaning new issues for monitoring and investigations By Zara Merali Kim Rosenberg The UAE issued a landmark federal data protection law on 20 September 2021, moving the Emirates towards greater transparency and...