DLA Piper’s Data Protection and Privacy practice delivers topical legal and regulatory updates and analysis from across the globe.
Recently, India’s Central Bank, Reserve Bank of India (RBI) came out with a directive on April 6, 2018 related to “storage of payment system data”. This order makes it mandatory for all system providers (as well as their service providers/intermediaries/ third party vendors and other entities) to ensure that all data relating to payment systems […]
By James Clark and Johanne Ward Today, Thursday 10 May 2018, The Network and Information Systems Regulations 2018 (“Regulations”) enter into force in the UK, implementing the Network and Information Security Directive, and introducing important new security compliance standards for companies and public bodies operating in areas of critical national infrastructure, as well as providers […]
By Tamara Hunter and David Spratley Canada’s long-awaited federal private-sector data breach reporting regulations have now been published by the Canadian government and will take effect November 1, 2018. This gives organizations approximately seven months to get ready for compliance. Back in June 2015, Canada’s Personal Information Protection and Electronic Documents Act (PIPEDA) was amended […]
We are now one month away from the historic enforcement of the EU General Data Protection Regulation (GDPR) and it is clear that there is still much to do by many Australian organisations to ensure compliance by the 25 May 2018 deadline. While many Australian organisations have historically adopted a more transparent and conciliatory approach […]
After several years of uncertainty over the US government’s power to reach data stored overseas, Congress has enacted the Clarifying Lawful Overseas Use of Data Act (the CLOUD Act). Signed into law by the President, the CLOUD Act amends the Stored Communications Act to confirm that the US government may obtain data stored abroad. The […]
The current draft of Italian privacy law repeals the Privacy Code, integrating the GDPR reveals with some interesting news, but also some concerns.
Italian companies can now rely on guidelines on how to comply with the European privacy regulation (GDPR) which unvail some interesting positions.
By Gert-Jan Fraeyman and Peter Craddock On 22 February 2018, the European Court of Human Rights (ECHR) decided a case concerning the alleged violation of Article 8 of the European Convention on Human Rights (the Convention) in the context of controlling an employee’s personal files stored on the hard drive of his work computer. The judgment […]
