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Authors: Carolyn Bigg, Amanda Ge, Venus Cheung, Gwyneth To
China’s amended Anti-Espionage Law will take effect from 1 July 2023. However, its effects have already been felt by some international businesses. So what should international businesses do to respond to these new risks?
The new law broadens the scope of espionage activities,…
Continue Reading CHINA: new Anti-Espionage Law and its impact on your China data and operations – how your organisation should respond
Authors: Verena Grentzenberg, Andreas Rüdiger, Ludwig Lauer
In his Opinion of 27.04.2023 (C 340/21), the Advocate General of the European Court of Justice (“ECJ”) commented on the interpretation of the civil non-material right to damages pursuant to Article 82 (1) GDPR as well as on the requirements and the duty of…
Continue Reading Europe: Opinion of the Advocate General on presumed fault of the controller in case of unlawful third-party access to personal data
Authors: Eleni Alexiou, Katharina Pauls
On 30 March 2023, the European Court of Justice (ECJ) ruled on the requirements for national legal bases regarding employee data protection in the context of a referral procedure. Based on its ruling, the German provision that gave rise to the referral procedure (Sec. 23 (1) sentence 1 of…
Continue Reading Germany: ECJ ruling on employee data protection
Authors: James Clark, Coran Darling, Andrew Dyson, Gareth Stokes, Imran Syed & Rachel de Souza
In November 2021, the UK Government (“Government”) issued the National Artificial Intelligence (AI) Strategy, with the ambition of making the UK a global AI superpower over the next decade. The strategy promised a…
Continue Reading A Pro-Innovation Approach: UK Government publishes white paper on the future of governance and regulation of artificial intelligence
Authors: Andreas Rüdiger, Philipp Adelberg
On 14 February 2023, the European Data Protection Board (“EDPB”) published the updated and final version of its Guidelines 05/2021 on the Interplay between the application of Article 3 and the provisions on international transfers as per Chapter V of the GDPR (EDPB Guidelines 05/2021).
Continue Reading EU: Final version of the EDPB-Guidelines 05/2021 on the Interplay between the application of Art. 3 and the provisions on international transfers as per Chapter V of the GDPR
Author: Sarah Birkett
Cyber Security Strategy discussion paper launched
This week saw the launch of a discussion paper for the Australian Government’s 2023-2030 Australian Cyber Security Strategy. The discussion paper refers to the lofty aim of making Australia the most cyber secure nation by 2030.
The discussion paper, which acknowledges that the Australian Government was…
Continue Reading Australia: Cyber security round-up – new Cyber Security Strategy, data breach stats and more
Authors: Andreas Rüdiger, Philipp Adelberg
The debate on transatlantic data transfers, a possible adequacy decision for the US and the EU-US Data Privacy Framework (“DPF“) is gaining new momentum. On 14 February 2023, the European Parliament’s Committee on Civil Liberties, Justice and Home Affairs published its draft motion for a resolution regarding…
Continue Reading EU – US adequacy decision: Update
Authors: Sarah Birkett, Nicholas Boyle
The Australian Attorney-General has published the (long-awaited) results of the Privacy Act review.
The report recommends a number of changes to the Australian privacy framework, including various changes to Australia’s core privacy legislation, the Privacy Act 1988 (Cth).
The report does not represent official Government policy and there is…
Continue Reading Australia Privacy Act review – a blueprint for change?
Author: James Clark
On 19 December 2022 the UK government’s first data adequacy decision of the post-Brexit era came into effect. Under the Data Protection (Adequacy) (Republic of Korea) Regulations 2022, the UK formally determined that the Republic of Korea provides an adequate level of data protection for the purposes of the UK GDPR. Consequently,…
Continue Reading UK: Data adequacy post-Brexit – the UK’s first ‘data bridge’
