Just days before the European Union Artificial Intelligence Act (AI Act”) went into force on August 1, 2024, the EU AI Office announced a call for expression of interest to assist with drafting the AI Code of Practice...more
The European Union Artificial Intelligence Act (2024/1689) was published in the Official Journal of the European Union on July 7, 2024 and will come into effect on August 1, 2024, the 20th day following its publication in the...more
Last month the European Commission (“EC”) announced organizational details regarding the recently formed EU AI Office. Initially launched in January 2024 through the EC’s AI innovation package, the EU AI Office (“AI Office”)...more
Data is yet again at the top of the agenda in the UK Parliament. Seeking to balance the need for the protection of privacy of data and enabling data-driven growth, the UK Department for Science, Innovation and Technology...more
Having been approved by a vote of the Council of Ministers, the EU’s Digital Services Act (DSA) was published in the Official Journal of the European Union on October 13, 2022 and is expected to come into force in November. ...more
Following the removal of all domestic COVID restrictions and regulations, on 1 April 2022 the government issued new workplace public health guidance as part of its “Living with COVID” strategy. The guidance sets out new...more
What are the legal issues for employers to consider?
During the pandemic, many employers have been dealing with requests from employees to work abroad. With the move to remote working, employees have asked to work from...more
6/30/2021
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Many of our clients are increasingly faced with internal investigations, some with complex compliance or whistleblowing features. Our April client alert looks at some of the key considerations before embarking upon any...more
A huge thank you to all those who participated in our survey earlier this month on how your workplace has responded to the unique challenges presented by the pandemic for working parents and carers. As promised, we report...more
2020 was a year of exceptional change for employers and their staff. As the pandemic unfolded, businesses navigated their way through adjusting to a remote workforce to furloughing to creating COVID-secure workplaces and...more
1/29/2021
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The Dubai International Financial Centre (the DIFC), a financial free zone in the United Arab Emirates (the UAE), is the leading financial hub for the Middle East, Africa and South Asia. It has implemented the new enhanced...more
9/17/2020
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The UK financial services regulators speak loudly and often about their forward-looking approach to supervision, which – rather than looking back – seeks to focus on future risks to firms and consumers. Yet, you only have to...more
GDPR, the key piece of European privacy law, sets out strict controls on the transfer of personal data from the EU to non-EU jurisdictions and makes it unlawful to transfer personal data from the EU to a non-EU based...more
The Dubai International Financial Centre (the DIFC), a financial free zone in the United Arab Emirates (the UAE), has become the leading financial hub for the Middle East, Africa and South Asia. The DIFC is located in Dubai...more
The unprecedented global spread of coronavirus, or COVID-19, has taken a major toll on governments and businesses in both trying to protect people and contain the outbreak. The human impact has also seen, tragically,...more
The unprecedented spread of the COVID-19, or coronavirus, outbreak around the world has resulted in many organisations in the UK facing continued challenges, raising several key business and legal considerations. One of the...more
The Financial Conduct Authority (FCA) aims to guide regulated firms on its expectations of their cyber resiliency. In 2018, the FCA warned regulated firms of the risks of outdated IT systems and the lack of effective cyber...more
In a paper published last month,[i] the UK’s Financial Conduct Authority (“FCA”) set out various cybersecurity insights gleaned from the work of cyber coordination groups (“CCGs”) the regulator established in 2017. The...more
4/4/2019
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On July 20, 2018, Elizabeth Denham, the Information Commissioner (“ICO”) for the United Kingdom (“UK”), released an Annual Report for 2017/18 (the “Report”). In the Report, the ICO commented that new laws and high profile...more
The European Data Protection Board (“EDPB”), established under the General Data Protection Regulation (“GDPR”), said in a statement that the use of so-called “cookie walls” should be prohibited under the proposed EU e-Privacy...more
The EU General Data Protection Regulation (“GDPR”) came into force on May 25, 2018. With so much recent focus on preparing for and meeting this deadline, there is no doubt that companies will have breathed a sigh of relief to...more
Beginning in September 2018 and continuing through January 2019, the Federal Trade Commission (“FTC”) will hold a series of up to 20 public hearings intended to inform its future policy approach to antitrust and consumer...more
The United Kingdom’s Information Commissioner’s Office (“ICO”) has published its international strategy for 2017-2021, which sets out the UK’s strategy for its relationship with the European Union on data privacy matters...more
A report by professional services firm PwC, using figures from the UK’s Information Commissioner’s Office (“ICO”), confirmed that the number of fines handed out for breaking UK data protection laws almost doubled last year,...more
The new Gender Pay Gap Reporting Regulations require employers in the U.K. to report on the pay gap between men and women in their organisation with the aim of reducing the gender pay gap in the U.K. workforce. The...more