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Energy’s C2M2 2.0 Supports Industry’s Ability to Modernize Protections

This article was co-authored by summer associate Emily Strickland.A recent upsurge of high-profile cyber intrusions including those on the Colonial Pipeline, SolarWinds, and the Florida water supply…

Author(s): Adam Siegel, Brock Dahl

  • cybersecurity
  • data protection

Plans for a digital euro move to the next phase

What has been decided – and what has not?On 14 July 2021, the Governing Council of the European Central Bank (ECB) approved a project to prepare for the potential issuance of a digital euro. Although…

Author(s): Daniel Klingenbrunn, Eugene McQuaid, Natalie Pettinger Kearney, Markus Benzing

  • cryptocurrency
  • europe
  • financial institutions
  • blockchain
  • fintech

Germany’s new ePrivacy requirements: big challenges for the IoT space

With very little media attention, the German parliament has passed the Telecommunications and Telemedia Data Protection Act (Telekommunikation-Telemedien-Datenschutz-Gesetz – TTDSG), which will come…

Author(s): Michael Schwaab

  • data protection
  • data
  • automotive
  • gdpr
  • technology
  • telecommunications
  • internet of things
  • europe

UK Government consults on major shake-up of competition and consumer law regimes (part 2)

Proposed reforms to consumer law and enforcementThe Government has published its long awaited consultation on a wide range of proposals to reform the UK consumer law regime.The proposals put down a…

Author(s): Simon Duncombe, Catherine Greenwood-Smith, Alex McGregor, George Lumbers

UK Government consults on major shake-up of competition and consumer law regimes (part 1)

Proposed reforms to competition regime and powers for new Digital Markets UnitThe UK government has proposed an extensive set of reforms to the competition law regime, together with proposed new…

Author(s): Sharon Malhi, Sarah Jensen, Rikki Haria, Fredrik Hellstrom

Hong Kong – new offence of doxxing introduced

Background On 16 July 2021, the government gazetted a Personal Data (Privacy) (Amendment) Bill 2021 (the Bill) to introduce a specific new offence of doxxing and new take down powers for the Office…

Author(s): Jingyi Chiew, Richard Bird

  • data
  • asia-pacific
  • regulatory

New AI Regulation in the EU: data protection watchdogs push for stricter rules

In April 2021, the EU Commission published its draft legislative proposal on artificial intelligence (the AI Regulation Proposal), which aims to address the risks of AI without constraining AI’s…

Author(s): Philipp Roos, Rhea Dennis

  • ai
  • data protection
  • europe
  • gdpr

Virtual industrial action: what employers in Germany should expect

In Germany, the pandemic-induced move to homeworking is posing new challenges not only for employers and employees but also for trade unions. Government-imposed restrictions on public assembly have…

Author(s): Tibor Szigetvari, Kai-Martin Gohmert

  • social media
  • employment
  • europe
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