Regulation

David Keating and Karen Sanzaro to Speak at the 2017 Privacy + Security Forum

September 26, 2017 By Privacy, Cyber & Data Strategy Team

David Keating, partner and co-leader of the firm’s Privacy & Data Security practice, and Karen Sanzaro, counsel in the Technology & Privacy Group, will be speakers at the 2017 Privacy + Security Forum in Washington, DC, taking place on October 4-6, 2017. David Keating will be speaking during the session on “Emerging Consumer Tracking and Analytics […]

UK will soon introduce a new Data Protection Bill

August 15, 2017 By Privacy, Cyber & Data Strategy Team

The UK Department for Culture, Media & Sport is planning to present a new Data Protection Bill to the Parliament in early September. This new Bill will replace the current UK Data Protection Act 1998 and will effectively incorporate the EU General Data Protection Regulation (“GDPR”) in the UK legal system. The new Data Protection […]

Data Processing at Work: New Challenges towards Compliance

August 10, 2017 By Privacy, Cyber & Data Strategy Team

The Article 29 Working Party (“WP29”) recently issued an opinion that discusses the processing of employee personal information (Opinion 02/2017). WP29 focuses on the use of new technologies by employers and assesses requirements in light of the upcoming General Data Protection Regulation (“GDPR”). Consent and legal bases to process personal information The WP29 has historically […]

Facebook Fined for WhatsApp Data Linking Fallout

May 24, 2017 By Privacy, Cyber & Data Strategy Team

On 18 May 2017, the European Commission (“Commission”) fined Facebook €110 million ($122 million) for misrepresentations made in its application for competition clearance of the company’s acquisition of WhatsApp. In its merger application, Facebook claimed that it would be unable to automatically match Facebook users’ accounts and WhatsApp users’ accounts for marketing and other purposes. […]