After several years of debate, India has passed the Digital Personal Data Protection Act of 2023 (DPDPA), an overhaul of the country’s data protection regime that will require employers operating in India to take stock of...more
ust over a year ago, on 21 April 2022, the seven economies (Canada, Japan, the Republic of Korea, the Philippines, Singapore, Taiwan, and the USA) participating in the Asia-Pacific Economic Cooperation (APEC) Cross-Border...more
On November 10, the European Data Protection Board (EDPB), the European Union’s top data privacy regulator, issued long-awaited guidance setting out a framework for navigating transfers of data out of the European Economic...more
Keypoint: In the wake of Schrems II, the EDPB’s much-anticipated recommendations provide extensive guidance on supplementary measures parties can use to legally transfer data out of the EEA in the absence of an adequacy...more
It is no overstatement to say that 2019 saw a torrid pace of development of Asia-Pacific region data protection and cybersecurity laws. Such was the rate and complexity of change that it is not straightforward to distil...more
As global focus on data protection and cyber security law and regulation continues to increase, the Asia-Pacific region is increasingly an area of concern for global compliance programs. ...more
2016 was an eventful year in the Asia-Pacific region, as data protection and cyber security issues increasingly feature in the news headlines in the Asia-Pacific region as they do elsewhere, our annual publication, the 2017...more
General Data Protection Regulation (GDPR) Published, Commencing Two-Year Countdown to Application. One of the most important EU legislative initiatives in recent years, and a landmark in privacy regulation worldwide, the GDPR...more