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A recent ruling of the Court of Justice of the European Union (CJEU) placed an increased burden on companies dealing with data subject access requests (DSARs) under the General Data Protection Regulat...
Author(s): Hendrik Witt, Michael Schwaab
The taxation of cryptoassets is far from straightforward. Even if we assume that most tax authorities ultimately want to replicate the tax treatment of equivalent traditional assets, there are a numbe...
Author(s): Brin Rajathurai, Cyrus Pocha
The National Information Security Standardisation Technical Committee (TC260) released a draft guidance document in Q4, 2022 giving direction to government departments and sectoral regulators on class...
Author(s): Richard Bird
Following a consultation, the National Information Security Standardisation Technical Committee of China (colloquially known as ‘TC260') has issued version 2.0 of the Cybersecurity Standard Practice G...
On 13 December 2022, the EU Commission launched the process to adopt a new ‘adequacy decision’ for personal data transfers to recipients based in the US. This marks the next step in the creation of th...
Author(s): Alexander Bothe, Philipp Roos, Nicola Fish, Adam Gillert
Note: This article originally ran in MedCity News We expect 2023 to be a pivotal year for the industry, as the accelerated acceptance of virtual care and demographic trends, such as an aging populatio...
Author(s): Vinita Kailasanath, Sora Park
2022 has been a turbulent year for the digital assets sphere. While the industry is under harsher scrutiny than ever before following a number of high-profile cases and collapses of big players across...
Author(s): Simon Orton, Thomas Clark, Emma Probyn, George Ho
In a speech earlier this year, Nikhil Rathi, the CEO of the Financial Conduct Authority (FCA) predicted that “from masters of the universe to demi-gods of data, financial and Big Tech firms will wield...
Author(s): Michael Raffan, Lauren Moorin, Fran Kahr