Vinod Bange, Magalie Dansac Le Clerc, Josephine Becker, Martyna Czapska, Elisabeth Dehareng, Nathalja Doing, Annie Elfassi, Jakub Falkowski, Dr Lukas Feiler, Marcin Fialka, Francesca Gaudino, Alexandra Glad, Kathy Harford, Caroline Heinickel, Dusan Hlavaty, Milena Hoffmanová, William Höglund, Beat Koenig, Valerie Kopera, Marlyse Lissan, David Molina, Dr Michaela Nebel, Radoslaw Nozykowski, Peder Oxhammar, Patricia Pérez, Ines K. Radmilovic, Simone (Bach) Rieken LL.M., Prof. Dr. Michael Schmidl, Matthias Scholz, Caroline Serbanescu, Kyllian Talbourdet, Florian Tannen, Pablo Uslé, Dr. Csaba Vári, Author at Connect On Tech

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NIS2 Implementation Delay: What It Means for Organisations in the EU

The deadline for NIS2 implementation passed on 17 October, but only 6 EU Member States met that deadline, and 14 of the remaining 22 are not expected to have implementing legislation in force before the end of the year. The complexity and breadth of the new regime has clearly presented challenges for Member States, as well as organisations preparing to comply. Our map below shows the status of implementing legislation in each Member State and…

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Is Europe ready for NIS2?

The deadline for Member State implementation of NIS2 is less than a month away, but the majority of Member States we surveyed are likely to miss this deadline. This raises practical compliance challenges for multinationals in Europe, but there are concrete steps organisations can and should take now to prepare. NIS2 repeals and replaces the NIS Directive and harmonizes the EU’s existing cybersecurity framework. It imposes more onerous cybersecurity obligations on entities in a wider…

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The new EU regulation on harmonised rules on fair access to and use of data (“Data Act”)

March 21, 2024 by Simone (Bach) Rieken LL.M., John McGovern and Marilyn Acquah 5 Mins Read

Where can I find the text of the Data Act? The published text can be found here. What is the Data Act about? What else is governed by the Data Act? Who and what is in scope? 1. Actors, products and services 2. Categories of data Timeline

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Celebrating Data Privacy Day 2024

January 29, 2024 by Anne-Marie Allgrove, Anne Petterd, Adrian Lawrence, Toby Patten, Caitlin Whale, Liz Grimwood-Taylor, Zhenyu Ruan, Michael Wang, Marcia Lee, Dominic Edmondson, Jennifer Lau, Daniel Pardede, Adhika Wiyoso, Wiku Anindito, Bimo Harimahesa, Kensaku Takase, Daisuke Tatsuno, Andre Gan, Trishelea Sandosam, Bienvenido A. Marquez III, Divina Ilas-Panganiban, Ken Chia, Victoria Wong, H. Henry Chang, Louis Hsieh, Pattaraphan Paiboon, Kritiyanee Buranatrevedhya, Manh Hung Tran, Huyen Minh Nguyen, Huu Tuan Nguyen, Maher Ghalloussi, Dr Lukas Feiler, Beat Koenig, Alexander Hofmann, Elisabeth Dehareng, Caroline Serbanescu, Milena Hoffmanová, Lenka Bešťáková, Dusan Hlavaty, Magalie Dansac Le Clerc, Prof. Dr. Michael Schmidl, Matthias Scholz, Michaela Nebel, Florian Tannen, Simone (Bach) Rieken LL.M., Ines K. Radmilovic, Dr. Csaba Vári, Francesca Gaudino, Annie Elfassi, Kyllian Talbourdet, Remke Scheepstra, Nathalja Doing, Radoslaw Nozykowski, Marcin Fialka, Martyna Czapska, Jakub Falkowski, Janet McKenzie, Fatima Ismail, Patricia Pérez, Pablo Uslé, Peder Oxhammar, Margarita Kozlov, William Höglund, Alessandro Celli, Johanna Moesch (Mösch), Oleksiy Stolyarenko, Dmytro Skydan, Khrystyna Oleniuk, Vinod Bange, Benjamin Slinn, Robbie Downing, Ian Walden, Tamara Mackay-Temesy, Guillermo Cervio, Roberto Grane, Martin Roth, Valentina Biondi Grane, Catalina Benatena, Flavia Rebello, Ludmila Lago, Theo Ling, Conrad Flaczyk, Nadia Rauf, Diego Ferrada, Carolina Pardo, Carlos Arboleda, Carlos Vela-Trevino, Daniel Villanueva-Plasencia, Paulina Bojalil, Teresa Tovar, Brian Hengesbaugh, Cynthia Cole, Lothar Determann, Justine Phillips, Rachel Ehlers, Helena Engfeldt, Jonathan Tam, Cristina Messerschmidt, Maria Eugenia Salazar-Furiati and Hector Martinez 2 Mins Read

28 January 2024 is Data Protection Day (or Data Privacy Day outside of Europe), which marks the anniversary of the Council of Europe’s Convention 108. Data Privacy Day encourages the global community to think about the importance of respecting privacy, safeguarding data, and enabling trust. In an increasingly connected and digitized world, where data protection, privacy and cybersecurity regulation are rapidly evolving, the work of the global data community is more vital, and more challenging,…

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Consideration for EU Service Providers Supporting EU and Non-EU Customers

The new standard contractual clauses for data transfers to third countries (“Ex-EU SCCs”) and standard contractual clauses for controllers and processors in the EU/EEA (“Intra-EU SCCs”) issued by the European Commission provide for, both, chances and challenges for EU service providers supporting EU and non-EU customers, some of which are outlined below. 1. When do the Ex-EU SCCs apply? EU service providers supporting non-EU customers might want to enter into the new Ex-EU SCCs with…

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Intra-EU/EEA Standard Contractual Clauses: What you need to know

The European Commission (“EC”) recently issued a set of standard contractual clauses for controllers and processors in the EU/EEA (“Intra-EU SCCs”). The Intra-EU SCCs accompany a wider set of clauses issued for extra-EU/EEA personal data transfers (“Extra-EU SCCs”), covering transfers between different types of data processing actors (processors, controllers, sub-processors etc.). Both of them were published in the Official Journal of the European Union on June 7, 2021. The clauses for intra-EU data processing arrangements…

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The New European Commission Standard Contractual Clauses: What you need to know

The European Commission (“EC”) recently issued its revised standard contractual clauses for data transfers to third countries (“Ex-EU SCCs”) and a companion set of standard clauses for controllers and processors in the EU/EEA (“Intra-EU SCCs”). Both are now published in the Official Journal. The following is an introduction to the core elements of the Ex-EU SCCs and a brief overview of the Intra-EU SCCs. Legal Context The Ex-EU SCCs are a mechanism that companies can…