31 May, 2023 Amendments to Saudi Arabia’s new Data Protection Law ease restrictions on internal investigations and employee monitoring By Kim Rosenberg Zara Merali Engie Mohsen Noor Al Baya +1 more... Show less New amendments under Saudi Arabia’s Personal Data Protection Law The Kingdom of Saudi Arabia is introducing new amendments to its as yet...
11 Apr, 2023 Blowing the Whistle: The DFSA’s Whistleblower Protection Reform – The First of Its Kind in the UAE By Zara Merali Ann Matthias Abhilasha Vij Whistleblowers play a crucial role in detecting and escalating issues of regulatory and financial misconduct. Yet individual...
20 Apr, 2022 Identifying challenges, laws, and best practices in the United Arab Emirates to tackle cyberattacks and maintaining preparedness By Kim Rosenberg Zara Merali This blog article was prepared in collaboration with Lori Baker, Vice President of Legal and Director of Data Protection in the DIFC,...
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...
28 Jan, 2022 Global Enforcement Outlook: Critical data management issues in investigations By Philipp Roos Zara Merali Geoff Nicholas Kimberly Zelnick Norbert Nolte +2 more... Show less As internal, regulatory and criminal investigations become increasingly global, cross-border data protection and privacy issues are more...
15 Jul, 2021 UAE anti-money laundering/counter-terrorist financing compliance and enforcement: recent and future developments By Zara Merali Kim Rosenberg Scheherazade Shiraz Given the UAE’s central role in the global trade of oil, gold and diamonds, it faces significant anti-money laundering (AML) and...
06 Jan, 2021 Beware of money laundering risks in the UAE: DIFC By Kim Rosenberg Zara Merali Scheherazade Shiraz The UAE has strengthened anti-money laundering (AML) laws in recent years: the federal laws were overhauled as recently as 2018 and 2019,...
16 Jul, 2020 Employee surveillance in the DIFC and ADGM – striking the right balance By Kim Rosenberg Zara Merali Kiyashni Kollapen Employee surveillance is a contentious topic given the inherent tension between the employer’s interest in protecting its operations and...