Introduction On Monday the Italian data protection regulator (Garante per la Protezione dei dati Personali or Garante) fined online food delivery company Deliveroo €2,500,000 for GDPR violations. The case follows another case involving food delivery when Garante fined the operator of an online food delivery platform, Foodinho, €2,600,000 in relation to its use of discriminatory Read more »
Client Alert: Amazon fined €746 million by Luxemburg Data Protection Regulator for GDPR infringements
Introduction The Luxembourg National Commission for Data Protection (CNPD) has issued notice of its intention to fine tech and online retail giant Amazon €746 million relating to Amazon’s data processing practices, the highest fine to date for GDPR violations. Amazon has said that it disputes the findings and intends to appeal. What do we know so Read more »
EU Issues Modern Slavery Due Diligence Guidance
What’s this all about? As of yet the EU does not have equivalent legislation to the UK’s Modern Slavery Act or similar national legislation that exists in some EU countries. But, moves are being made in the EU to adopt Environmental, Social and Corporate Governance (ESG)/supply chain legislative due diligence requirements on businesses (which we’ve Read more »
New UK Draft Legislation To Amend UK Modern Slavery Compliance Rules
What’s this all about? Under the UK Modern Slavery Act 2015 (the 2015 Act), compliance disclosure & transparency requirements mean that an organization with an annual turnover of £36 million (approximately $50 million at today’s rate) or more that sells goods or services in the UK is required to annually publish a slavery statement demonstrating Read more »
Everything Compliance – Episode 83 – the Vaccinated Edition
Jonathan Armstrong joins leading compliance experts in the US again in the latest Everything Compliance podcast. This episode of Everything Compliance hosted as always by Tom Fox features commentary from Jay Rosen, Jonathan Armstrong, Matt Kelly and special guest Karen Woody. You can listen to the podcast here: http://compliancepodcastnetwork.net/the-vaccinated-edition/ Today’s topics Jonathan Armstrong talks about Read more »
SCCE 20th Annual Compliance & Ethics Institute Las Vegas, USA – 19-22 September 2021
Jonathan Armstrong will be speaking in Las Vegas at the Society of Corporate Compliance and Ethics 20th Annual Compliance & Ethics Institute on 19 September to 22 September 2021. Jonathan will speak with Mary Shirley of Fresinius Medical Care in the return of their popular session looking at the big compliance news around the world Read more »
Client Alert: Ransomware – To Pay or Not to Pay?
We first published this alert in June 2021 and have updated it to take into account recent developments. Introduction A significant amount of our work at Cordery in the last year or so has been helping clients deal with ransomware attacks. It’s never a pleasant experience. We’ve set out some of our thoughts on the Read more »
European Data Protection Board Issues Guidance about International Data Transfers
Introduction The European Data Protection Board (EDPB) recently finalised and published its guidance on international data transfers entitled “Recommendations 01/2020 on measures that supplement transfer tools to ensure compliance with the EU level of protection of personal data” (“Recommendations”). This article looks at this development in brief. What’s this all about? Under General Data Protection Read more »
Episode 268: Cordery Head to Head @ Home – Eric Sinrod on new waves of regulation for social media & cookies
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 developments with proposed new laws to regulate social media. He talks about how former President Trump may have tougher social media legislation as one of his lasting Read more »
Client Alert: EU Data Protection Adequacy Decisions Approved
Introduction On 28 June 2021, as we predicted in our earlier alerts, the European Commission adopted two adequacy decisions for the UK, one under the General Data Protection Regulation (GDPR) and the other for the Law Enforcement Directive (LED). The decisions are similar to earlier drafts and include a so-called “Sunset Clause” which means that Read more »
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