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Protecting trade secrets in any business is critical, but the stakes are higher in life sciences. Given the high focus on innovation in the industry, corporate espionage can result in devastating financial and reputational...more
On Friday, December 27, 2024, the Justice Department issued a final rule to address “urgent national security risks posed by access to U.S. sensitive personal and government-related data from countries of concern and covered...more
Introduction - Data protection is being driven by rapid technological advances and the increasing digitalization of society. Data protection legislation in Portugal is aligned with European Union law, in particular with...more
Chinese authorities issued new regulations and guidance governing cross-border transfers of data and personal information, which will significantly reduce procedural and compliance burdens for many multinationals....more
Learning Objectives - Data privacy compliance requires the use of privacy impact assessments and data transfer assessments - What about the value of other assessments like privacy by design, online safety, AI risk,...more
The President of India gave assent for the Digital Personal Data Protection Bill 2023 on 11 August 2023, a matter of days after it had been passed by both the Lower and Upper House. The Digital Personal Data Protection Act...more
Updated June 2023 - The BCLP Data Privacy & Security team is tracking EU law developments relevant to data and cyber security. This tracker summarizes the effect and status of the following: the Digital Services Act, the...more
For most large companies, a frictionless flow of information and the ability to transfer customer data, employee files, financial records and other information around the world quickly and cost-effectively is a critical...more
In our previous posts, we discussed what data export activities are subject to scrutiny assessment (CAC Assessment) conducted by the Cyberspace Administration of China (CAC) (see Part 1) and examined what companies must do...more
In a recent alert, we painted the big picture of the security assessment conducted by the Cyberspace Administration of China (CAC) to data exporting activities from China (CAC Assessment), highlighting what data export...more
With the rapid development of the global digital economy, multinational companies (MNCs) have been forced to find legally compliant ways to transfer data across borders. In the past, many MNCs relied on data transfer...more
Key Points - President Biden has signed the long-awaited executive order implementing U.S. commitments to the new successor agreement to the Privacy Shield, the EU-U.S. Data Privacy Framework—a historic step in respect of...more
Do you use Google Analytics? Do you tell consumers that you do not sell personal information? If you answered yes to both of those questions, then this alert is for you! The California attorney general recently took the...more
On July 7, 2022, the Cyberspace Administration of China (“CAC”) released the Security Assessment Measures of Cross-border Data Transfer ( the “Measures”) which will be effective from September 1, 2022. Previously on October...more
...This session, led by industry-acknowledged experts in areas ranging from data protection and privacy to data transfer and legal discovery, provided a professional forum for the explanation of the best approaches,...more
On June 3, 2022, a bipartisan group of U.S. Representatives released a discussion draft of a comprehensive federal data privacy bill entitled the American Data Privacy and Protection Act (ADPPA). Though bipartisan compromise...more
After a stalemate over federal consumer privacy legislation in the past few years, a draft bill was released on June 3 that signals a major step towards bipartisan support for federal consumer privacy legislation. The...more
After two-plus years of mostly attending CLEs, webinars, and other knowledge-building events via Zoom, Teams or some other virtual platform, it was great to get together with like-minded privacy professionals in Washington,...more
Ransomware and other cybersecurity attacks have made national headlines during the past 12 months, and public pension systems are as susceptible to these attacks as any other organization. In this episode of Public Pensions &...more
The law will take effect on November 1, 2021 giving companies under two months to ensure their privacy policies and systems comply. On August 20, the Standing Committee of the 13th National People’s Congress of China...more
NFTs – or non-fungible tokens – are increasingly popular among artists, sports figures, and the video game industry. But NFTs (some selling for upwards of eight figures) are not just for gamers, Mark Cuban, and the ultra...more
On June 10, 2021, the National People’s Congress of the People’s Republic of China (PRC) approved the passage of the Data Security Law (DSL), which will take effect on Sept. 1, 2021. Overview - Unlike the PRC’s Cybersecurity...more
On 10 June 2021, the Standing Committee of the National People’s Congress of China (NPCSC) approved the enactment of Data Security Law (the DSL) of the People’s Republic of China (PRC), which will take effect on 1 September...more
On 13 April 2021, the British Virgin Islands (“BVI” or “Virgin Islands”) became the latest jurisdiction to enact a comprehensive information privacy law when the territory published the Data Protection Act, 2021 (the “DPA...more
This quarterly update highlights some of the international data protection issues that have caught our attention, and the attention of our clients, in the past three months....more