Data Breach

In case you missed it, below are recent posts from Consumer Privacy World covering the latest developments on data privacy, security and innovation. Please reach out to the authors if you are interested in additional information.

English Courts’ Stance on Low-Value Data Breach Claims Continues to Harden, But There May be Hiccups Along the Way

In case you missed it, below are recent posts from Consumer Privacy World covering the latest developments on data privacy, security and innovation. Please reach out to the authors if you are interested in additional information.

Still Time to Register – Webinar: Update Your Standard Contractual Clauses Before the Festive Season: Practical Tips to Generate

The deadline for updating standard contractual clauses (SCCs) falls on 27 December 2022, yet many organisations are still struggling to transition their legacy arrangements.

There are many reasons for this, including confusion around the paradigm shift that the new SCCs represent and the ever-evolving transfer landscape (from the developments towards a revised Privacy Shield to

Welcome to the 2022 Q3 edition of the Artificial Intelligence & Biometric Privacy Report, your go-to source for keeping you in the know on all recent major artificial intelligence (“AI”) and biometric privacy developments that have taken place over the course of the last three months. We invite you to share this resource with your colleagues and visit Squire Patton Boggs’ Data Privacy, Cybersecurity & Digital Assets and Privacy & Data Breach Litigation homepages for more information about our capabilities and team.

Also, we are extremely pleased to announce that our own Kristin Bryan was named as a 2022 Law360 Cybersecurity & Privacy MVP. As Law360 notes, “[t]he attorneys chosen as Law360’s 2022 MVPs have distinguished themselves from their peers by securing hard-earned successes in high-stakes litigation, complex global matters and record-breaking deals.” You can read more about Kristin’s Law360 award here: Law360 MVP Awards Go to 188 Attorneys From 78 Firms.

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On December 1st, CPW’s Tokyo partner, Scott Warren, will be speaking at the 8th Annual International Arbitration & Corporate Crime Summit, hosted by LegalPlus, in Tokyo, Japan. 

In his topic “Cyber Breach Response, Regulatory Investigations and Disputes,” Scott will discuss top items in preparing for and responding to data incidents, along with effective

More than 10 Squire Patton Boggs European Data Privacy, Cybersecurity and Digital lawyers attended last week’s Brussels Data Protection Congress.

At the congress, Counsel Diletta De Cicco participated in a panel with journalists Luca Bertuzzi from Euractiv and Vincent Manancourt from POLITICO. They explored the topic: Is the Press the (Best) GDPR Enforcer? The discussion

Since October 1, 2022, new obligations relating to the warranties of conformity and of hidden defects, as well as new warranties for digital content and services, have come into force and require the update of the consumer Terms and Conditions.

Context

The changes were made by the decree n°2022-946 of June 29, 2022, “relating to the statutory warranty of conformity for goods, digital content and digital services,” which came into effect on October 1, 2022.

This decree revises and completes the regulatory provisions of the French consumer code following the reform carried out by Ordinance No. 2021-1247 of September 29, 2021, which transposed European Directives (EU) 2019/770 “on certain aspects concerning contracts for the supply of digital content and digital services” and (EU) 2019/771 “on certain aspects concerning contracts for the sale of goods.”

The objective of these texts is to modernize the statutory warranty of conformity and consumer contracts to strengthen consumer protection and create a statutory warranty for the provision of digital content or digital services.

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The discussions on the metaverse are heating up, with partner Charles Helleputte speaking at two specialist conferences in the coming week.

At the Abilways conference in Brussels on 28 November, titled Digital finance and transformation of banks, he will discuss the use of new technologies in the financial sector and examines challenges,

In case you missed it, below are recent posts from Consumer Privacy World covering the latest developments on data privacy, security and innovation. Please reach out to the authors if you are interested in additional information.

WEBINAR Federal Privacy Legislation: Within Reach After a Decade of Debate. If So, What Next?

Federal Court Dismisses Biometric

CPW’s Kristin Bryan joins two of Squire Patton Boggs’ policy experts – Beth Goldstein and Jeffrey Turner – to discuss one of the most critical pieces of privacy legislation in years, the American Data Privacy and Protection Act (ADPPA), for Lexology’s Masterclass series. This game-changing privacy legislation not only has potential far-reaching impact, but