Data privacy & cyber security

March 2024  |  SPECIAL REPORT: DATA PRIVACY & CYBER SECURITY

Financier Worldwide Magazine

March 2024 Issue


Q&A: Digital Services Act: compliance and enforcement

The landmark DSA can be seen as a step toward harmonising efforts to tackle illegal activity and misinformation online by providing assurance and rights to users as the internet evolves. FW discusses compliance and enforcement under the Digital Services Act with Ana Jankov and Daniel Nunn at FTI Consulting, and Benjamin Docquir at Osborne Clarke.

Automated decisions under the GDPR and the AI Act: who can control their fate?

Hogan Lovells Banks, lenders and service providers in the financial ecosystem, when making decisions or helping others to make decisions which impact individual customers and employees, will need to consider their exposure under the GDPR and the AI Act.

Compliance with UK data protection law while embracing emerging technologies

CMS Cameron McKenna Nabarro Olswang LLP The rapidly evolving digital space and the dynamic nature of AI technologies presents intricate hurdles in achieving compliance.

US states implement data practice assessment obligations

Squire Patton Boggs The assessment and audit requirements of the new generation of state data protection laws will force US companies to move beyond mere window dressing to develop fulsome data protection programmes.

A comparative analysis of employee data protection: US vs. EU

Bryn Law Group A comparative analysis of the regulatory approach taken in the US and the European Union offers an insight into what an effective employee data protection regime should include to pass muster in each jurisdiction.

The SEC’s cyber security incident 8-K reporting rule – an incident response game-changer

Cooley LLP The SEC reporting cyber incident rule, combined with the vastly increased threat and regulatory and litigation environment, has created a perfect storm of corporate risk, and has changed the breach notification game.

Data privacy and GDPR litigation trends in Germany and beyond

Quinn Emanuel Urquhart & Sullivan, LLP As always when fast paced technological developments meet new regulatory frameworks, this has resulted in a remarkable increase in litigation.

Q&A: Data privacy and cyber security: management liability

Accountability is one of the central tenets to many data protection and security laws. More and more, we are seeing leaders being asked to answer for privacy and security lapses. FW discusses data privacy and cyber security management liability issues with Thomas H. Bentz, Jr at Holland & Knight LLP and Mercedes Samavi at Morrison Foerster.


CONTRIBUTORS

Bryn Law Group

CMS Cameron McKenna Nabarro Olswang LLP

Cooley LLP

FTI Consulting

Hogan Lovells

Holland & Knight LLP

Morrison Foerster

Osborne Clarke

Quinn Emanuel Urquhart & Sullivan, LLP

Squire Patton Boggs


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