The Dubai International Financial Centre (DIFC) enacted the DIFC Data Protection Law No. 5 of 2020 (the DP Law) July 1, 2020. The DP Law has been designed primarily to bring DIFC’s data protection legal regime in line with international best practices in data privacy laws, in particular the General Data Protection Regulation (GDPR), which has ignited privacy and data law reform worldwide. DIFC entities have until October 1, 2020 to put in place structures,…

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The UK’s Supervisory Authority releases its Accountability Framework

By Cynthia O’Donoghue & Sarah O'Brien

September 15, 2020

The UK’s Information Commissioner’s Office (“ICO”) published earlier this month its Accountability Framework, available here. The Accountability Framework is designed to assist companies demonstrate compliance with their accountability obligation under the General Data Protection Regulation (“GDPR”) and assess whether their current measures meet the ICO’s expectations. The Accountability Framework consists of ten categories where the ICO expects companies to be able to demonstrate compliance: Leadership and oversight; Training and awareness; Transparency; Contracts and data…

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Recent developments concerning Brazil’s General Data Protection Law

By Bart Huffman, Sarah Bruno, Matthew Gluschankoff & Haylie Treas

September 11, 2020

In August 2018, Brazil passed its General Data Protection Law (LGPD), which could become effective as soon as September 16, 2020. Now is the time for organizations that collect personal data of individuals in Brazil or process personal data in Brazil to assess their processing activities and consider how to comply with the new law, while also ensuring they maintain compliance with other applicable privacy frameworks such as the CCPA and GDPR. Recently, the Brazilian…

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Customs surveillance of IP rights update from a French perspective

By Christophe Arfan

September 9, 2020

An Economic Operator Registration and Identification (EORI) number, which is used to identify each economic operator in relation to its dealings with EU Customs authorities, will become mandatory for the filing, modification and extension of applications for action, which allow Customs authorities to enforce the customs surveillance of intellectual property rights within the EU on September 15, 2020. As a consequence, in order to ensure the smooth processing of their requests with Customs authorities, IP…

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A French approach to disclosing a pending IP dispute

By Thierry Lautier

September 2, 2020

Unlike other countries, such as the US, France has a conservative approach of when and how IP right holders are entitled to disclose a pending infringement dispute to their clients and investors, under the legal concept of “disparagement”. France takes this step in order to limit the negative impact on the competitor resulting from disclosure at a too-early stage of the pending dispute. The French Supreme Court long ago established the principle that an IP…

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UK Supreme Court hands down another FRAND decision

By Marianne Schaffner & Jonathan Radcliffe

August 27, 2020

FRAND issues are at the heart of the most significant patent cases in Europe (in the UK, Germany and France – please see our previous alert here). After the Nokia vs Daimler decision last week by the Mannheim Court, and decision handed down in Sisvel v. Haier earlier in May by the German Supreme Court, the UK Supreme Court has issued its much awaited decision in Unwired Planet v. Huawei on Wednesday, September 26.…

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Implications for your business due to U.S. Executive Order on WeChat

By Denise Jong, Leigh T. Hansson, Dora Wang & Inez Wong

August 18, 2020

Michael R. Pompeo, the U.S. Secretary of State, announced the “Clean Network Program” which aims to ban the so-called “untrusted” carriers, applications, mobile application stores, cloud service providers, operators of undersea cables connecting the United States and the global internet on August 5, 2020. Companies that are involved in these businesses, or entities that transact with or rely on vendors that might be impacted are advised to keep abreast of further developments and additional announcements…

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Face-off part 2: UK Court of Appeal finds deficiencies in use of automated facial recognition technology

By Cynthia O’Donoghue & Sarah O'Brien

August 17, 2020

On 11 August 2020, the Court of Appeal published its decision challenging the High Court’s approval of South Wales Police’s (‘SWP’) use of CCTV facial recognition. We wrote about the High Court’s judgment in September last year, which can be viewed here. As a quick recap of the case, SWP used CCTV automated facial recognition (‘AFR’) software to enable faces on a ‘watchlist’ to be checked against faces taken from the CCTV feed in…

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Legal framework for influencers in Germany, the United Kingdom and the United States

By John P. Feldman, Toam Rubinstein, Dr. Alexander Hardinghaus, Ramona Kimmich & Nick Breen

July 29, 2020

The COVID-19 pandemic has hit the brand ambassador and influencer industry in different ways. Social media engagement is up. Screen times have increased. Advertising campaigns of brand ambassadors for organizations and influencers might have been adjusted. Self-quarantining audiences have different demands. With the strong trust from their followers, influencers on social media channels such as Facebook, Instagram or Twitter still have a power that pays off. Our recent client alert gives an updated overview of…

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Monetary Authority of Singapore publishes a “Consultation Paper on a Proposed New Omnibus Act for the Financial Sector”

By Hagen Rooke, Charmian Aw, Tamara Box, Claude Brown, Lee Ann Dillon, David Adelman, Janet Cheung & Johnny Lim

July 28, 2020

The Monetary Authority of Singapore (MAS) published a “Consultation Paper on a Proposed New Omnibus Act for the Financial Sector” (the CP) on July 21, 2020. The CP sets out proposals relating to the expansion of supervisory powers by the MAS in a range of important areas, including (among others) additional powers to take enforcement action against individuals, to apply new licensing requirements to certain types of virtual asset service provider (VASP), and to impose…

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New DIFC Data Protection Law on the way…Are you ready?

The UK’s Supervisory Authority releases its Accountability Framework

Recent developments concerning Brazil’s General Data Protection Law

Customs surveillance of IP rights update from a French perspective

A French approach to disclosing a pending IP dispute

UK Supreme Court hands down another FRAND decision

Implications for your business due to U.S. Executive Order on WeChat

Face-off part 2: UK Court of Appeal finds deficiencies in use of automated facial recognition technology

Legal framework for influencers in Germany, the United Kingdom and the United States

Monetary Authority of Singapore publishes a “Consultation Paper on a Proposed New Omnibus Act for the Financial Sector”

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