The US Department of Justice (DoJ) recently published a useful document on the Evaluation of Corporate Compliance Programs. The document sets out the things that the DoJ would be looking for in a corporate compliance program under 11 helpful headings. In some respects the document is similar to the Guidance that the UK Ministry of Read more »
EU Publishes Amendments to Model Clauses & Adequacy Decisions
This week the EU published amendments that were adopted in the middle of the month to: The EU Model Clauses Decisions (which we reported on previously here); and, The Eleven country-specific EU Adequacy Decisions. The amendments are in two EU Decisions which can be found here. Following the collapse of the EU-US Safe Harbor scheme Read more »
Expected rules to replace EU E-Privacy Directive
The EU is changing the EU E-Privacy Directive also often called the “Cookies Directive”, in order to be line with the EU General Data Protection Regulation (“GDPR”) which was adopted in Spring this year – we previously wrote about the changes here. A consultation on the changes was launched this April which ran to July Read more »
Bribery Prosecutions and Big Data
We have blogged about the rise in Big Data issues in the past (for example for Computer Weekly here) and some comments by the Director of the UK’s Serious Fraud Office (SFO) on Friday perhaps confirm that the use of Big Data is on the mind of prosecutors as well. New technology In August 2016 Read more »
Messages from the ICO’s charity enforcement action: Big Data is subject to regulation
The announcement today by the UK Data Regulator, the Information Commissioner’s Office (ICO) that it has investigated a number of charities for their data handling practices shows that the use of Big Data continues to be on the agenda of regulators. What happened? According to the ICO’s investigation the Royal Society for the Prevention of Read more »
Investigatory Powers Act 2016 becomes law
What is the Investigatory Powers Act? The Investigatory Powers Act 2016 (sometimes known as the IP Bill before it became law) is new legislation aimed at helping the UK Government have access to data to fight terrorism and other crimes. It does however have wider ramifications – even the introduction to the IP Act calls Read more »
Commission proposes amendments to model clauses
The European Commission appears to have issued a draft implementing Decision to amend the 2001 controller-to-controller and 2010 controller-to-processor model clauses. The Commission has had to do this in light of the 2015 European Court ruling in the Schrems case. The draft Decision only amends the original Commission Decisions and simply require the Member State Read more »
Russian sanctions list of individuals extended
Since early 2014 the EU has imposed various sanctions with regard to Russia in connection with the situation in the Ukraine and the Crimea through a raft of different measures which have undergone expansion and renewal – we reported on the most recent extension (EU extends sanctions against Russian entities and individuals to March 2017) Read more »
Modern Slavery Update
This week the (legislative) Bill to amend the UK’s Modern Slavery Act 2015 reached the committee stage in the UK’s House of Lords. No changes were suggested to the Bill so it now goes directly to third reading, at a date still to be announced. The Bill includes the following amongst its aims: To require Read more »
What does the election of President Trump mean for compliance?
With some around the world still in a state of shock over the election of President Trump we have had little time to think about what the compliance implications may be. Whilst his acceptance speech was short on policy there could be some compliance ramifications. In the coming days seasoned Trump-watchers are likely to have Read more »
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