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Modern Slavery Update

November 11, 2016

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?

November 10, 2016

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 »

France adopts new Sapin II anti-corruption law

November 9, 2016

Yesterday Tuesday 8 November the French National Assembly (the lower house of Parliament) adopted a much anticipated bill on the fight against corruption – the Sapin II law. These new rules will allow for something similar to the UK’s “deferred prosecution agreements” to be reached for corporates under the supervision of judicial authorities. Businesses with Read more »

Episode 184: How social media can influence elections

November 7, 2016

In this week’s podcast Eric and Jonathan talk about the role social media has had in the US election. Jonathan talks about the Trump Twitter Archive and whether the campaign has been more immediate and more negative with the growing prominence of twitter. They also discuss the ‘echo chamber’ effect of social media and wonder Read more »

Interview with Max Schrems

October 28, 2016

What is this about? Last Friday 21 October at the New York State Bar International Section seasonal meeting held in Paris, Jonathan Armstrong from Cordery interviewed the high-profile privacy advocate and litigant Max Schrems. It will be recalled that Max brought the case that ended up before the European Court of Justice that brought down Read more »

Episode 183: Uncertain future of regulation in the wake of the EU Safe Harbor

October 26, 2016

This week’s podcast discusses the future regulation of data protection and data transfer. Should different technology offerings be regulated as they come together? Jonathan and Eric also discuss the wake of the fall of EU Safe Harbor. TechLaw10 is a 10-minute audio podcast update from U.S. lawyer Eric Sinrod (Duane Morris) and UK lawyer Jonathan Armstrong (Cordery) where Read more »

Subject Access Requests and Disclosure in the context of litigation – recent case update

October 21, 2016

What is this about? The UK’s Data Protection Act 1998 (DPA) allows for individuals to make so-called “Subject Access Request” (SAR) where they can seek to obtain copies of the personal data held about them by organisations and certain other related information about how that data is stored and processed. It is notable that in Read more »

UK Anti-Slavery Commissioner’s Report published

October 18, 2016

What’s this all about? The UK’s Anti-Slavery Commissioner, Kevin Hyland, has for the first time published an official report on his activities, which can be found at: https://drive.google.com/file/d/0Bxt7kyIlWlEPYTUzRmZxclNYcE0/view. The report focuses on progress made in the fight against modern slavery with specific examples of significant achievements and outlines future actions. If generally-speaking the issue of Read more »

EU Network Information Security Directive FAQs

October 12, 2016

What is this all about? Under the EU Network Information Security Directive (“the NIS Directive”) operators of essential services and digital services providers will be required to maintain minimum network information security obligations and notify security incidents to a national regulator. For organisations that already have obligations to notify regulators or affected individuals under data Read more »