Cyber Security

Client Alert: Data Breaches and Transparency

April 28, 2021

Introduction A recent survey by Comparitech has highlighted the long-term effects of a data breach. In addition to the harm caused by a breach to a company’s reputation, staff retention and sales, data breaches can have a lasting effect on the share price of companies too. The survey looked at the share price of 34 Read more »

Episode 267: Cordery Head to Head @ Home – Eric Sinrod on new litigation in times of COVID

April 22, 2021

In this edition of Cordery Head to Head @ Home Cordery’s Jonathan Armstrong talks to Professor Eric Sinrod from his home in California. They reflect on a recent survey by Duane Morris on new forms of litigation which have appeared during the pandemic. The US is often seen as the home of inventive litigation and Read more »

Client Alert: EDPB approves UK Draft Data Protection Adequacy Decisions

April 14, 2021

What’s this all about? Today the European Data Protection Board (EDPB) released opinions on the European Commission’s draft Adequacy Decisions for the UK. The opinions confirm the EDPB’s view that the UK regime is adequate in data protection terms. You can read background to the decisions here https://www.corderycompliance.com/draft-eu-adequacy-decisions-issued-for-the-uk/. This note contains some data protection specific Read more »

Client Alert: Driving Compliance: Car Tech and Data Protection FAQs

April 12, 2021

We first published this article on 20 May 2020 and we are updating it to take account of the EDPB’s revised guidance and some other recent developments. Introduction Vehicle technology (often called car tech) is becoming increasingly sophisticated, with GPS trackers, inbuilt software, in-car cameras and other devices and apps gathering large amounts of data Read more »

Client Alert: Booking.Com fined in The Netherlands for late Data Breach Notification

March 31, 2021

Introduction Booking.com has today received a fine of €475,000 from the Dutch Data Protection Regulator, the Autoriteit Persoonsgegevens (AP), for their failure to report a data breach in time. The case follows a similar case against Twitter in Ireland in December which we wrote about here www.bit.ly/twitterfine2. This note uses some data protection specific terms Read more »

Compliance Podcast Network: Introducing the Cordery Head to Head @ Home series

March 10, 2021

Introducing Cordery’s new Head to Head @ Home podcast, just launched on the Compliance Podcast network. We’re exploring the most critical issues facing compliance professionals, and host Jonathan Armstrong is talking to the leading experts who are shaping the industry. Don’t miss an episode! You can listen to these podcasts here: http://compliancepodcastnetwork.net/category/head-to-head-home/

Episode 266: Cordery Head to Head @ Home – Eric Sinrod on cybersecurity law & current threats

March 9, 2021

In this edition of Cordery Head to Head @ Home Cordery’s Jonathan Armstrong talks to Professor Eric Sinrod from his home in California. They reflect on Jonathan’s recent guest lectures at two of Eric’s university classes and the history of cybersecurity law in the UK & US. Jonathan looks at the role of Prince Prince Read more »

EU Data Protection – glossary

March 3, 2021

We’ve put together this glossary to help explain some of the terms used in data protection and in GDPR. If there’s a term you think we should add let us know. AVG = Algemene Verordening Gegevensbescherming, the term used sometimes for GDPR in the Netherlands (although increasingly GDPR is used too there). Adequacy Decision = Read more »