30 May, 2023 China SCCs guidance is out - key questions (not) answered? By Alex Roberts Tiantian Ke Ruoyi Lu China’s cyber regulator – the Cyberspace Administration of China (CAC) – released the Filing Guidelines on the Personal Information...
30 May, 2023 China’s data export certification soon to be standardised! Is it a viable alternative? By Alex Roberts Ruoyi Lu The National Information Security Standardisation Technical Committee of China is currently looking over industry’s comments on the...
26 May, 2023 Spain sets out hefty fines under the EU Data Governance Act and amends its data protection laws By Ceyhun Pehlivan Elena Valín Spain has recently passed a law (Law 11/2023) that amends both the E-Commerce Act and the Data Protection Act to implement the provisions...
22 May, 2023 DMU Insight #5: The CMA’s Strategic Steer - a tech perspective By Tom Clare Last week the government published its draft Strategic Steer to the Competition and Markets Authority, setting out its priorities for the...
19 May, 2023 EU Data Act: A trade secret exception? By Ceyhun Pehlivan Elena Valín Trade secrets have been one of the most controversial topics of the EU’s Data Act. While trilogue negotiations among the EU’s...
19 May, 2023 China strengthens enforcement under the Anti-Espionage Law By Alex Roberts Ellen Qidi Zhang Ruoyi Lu 1. Recap of the revised Anti-Espionage Law The revised PRC Anti-Espionage Law (revised AEL) was adopted on 26 April and will take effect...
18 May, 2023 DMU Insight #4: Who will be subject to the new SMS regime? The DMU’s (expansive) designation powers By Nayantara Ravichandran Jonathan Ford DLast month, the UK Government introduced the long-awaited draft Digital Markets, Competition & Consumers (DMCC) Bill. This introduces a...
16 May, 2023 Keeping abreast of privacy law developments in Asia By Alex Roberts Yang Fan Cherrina Shiu In the past 12 months, several key jurisdictions, including Australia, the PRC, India, Indonesia, Japan, Thailand, and Vietnam have...
15 May, 2023 Inflation impacting supply chain: Fruit salad, inequity aversion and how to deal with a supplier’s termination notice By Danny Greenland Figures recently released by the Office for National Statistics show that UK consumer price inflation remains stubbornly in the...
12 May, 2023 The Spanish AEPD issues record 40% of all GDPR fines across the EEA in 2022 By Ceyhun Pehlivan Elena Valín The Spanish Data Protection Agency (AEPD) has recently published its FY22 report. The report shows that AEPD has imposed a skyrocketing...
12 May, 2023 EU AI Act: A step closer to the world’s first AI regulation By Ceyhun Pehlivan Elena Valín Yesterday, the Internal Market Committee and the Civil Liberties Committee of the European Parliament adopted the first ever rules...
11 May, 2023 DMU Insight #3: Digital economy - beware and prepare, consumer protection is growing teeth By Helen Crossley Consumer protection in the UK has historically been underweight compared to the competition regime – the CMA has not had direct...
11 May, 2023 TMT M&A Leadership Panel – Where are the deal opportunities in digital infrastructure in Asia? By Niranjan Arasaratnam Alaister Johnson Emerging from a challenging 2022, the question of who will lead investment in the digital infrastructure space in Asia was front and...
09 May, 2023 Gaming series #1: Games companies face digital regulation across the globe By Clare Murray Ceyhun Pehlivan Verity Egerton-Doyle John Eichlin Alex Roberts Ieuan Jolly Jennifer Calver +4 more... Show less The growing popularity of video gaming and the vast potential of the industry has caught the attention of regulators as well as...
04 May, 2023 DMU Insight #2: When is fair fair? The DMU’s final offer mechanism for determining tech price disputes By Verity Egerton-Doyle Judy Zhao A key element of the SMS regime contained in the Digital Markets, Competition & Consumers (DMCC) Bill, introduced to the UK Parliament...
04 May, 2023 EU cybersecurity agency explores the standardisation landscape for AI By Ceyhun Pehlivan Elena Valín The European Union Agency for Cybersecurity (ENISA) has recently issued a press release relation to its report which assesses the...