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The latest edition of the UK’s new data protection bill may have been long-awaited, but it remains only the start of a process which is still open to further amendments and future expansion of the law’s scope.

13 March 2023

An education software provider has agreed to pay the US securities regulator $3 million to end claims it made misleading disclosures following a 2020 ransomware attack that compromised the data of over 13,000 customers.

13 March 2023

Covington & Burling data privacy partner Simon Frankel is now a judge on the San Francisco Superior Court.

13 March 2023

Iowa’s Senate passes data legislation; Spokeo faces a new privacy claim; DLA Piper appoints a former CIA and Faegre Drinker attorney as its chief data scientist; and Texas discusses its proposed data privacy law.

13 March 2023

The UK Data and Marketing Association has welcomed clarifications provided by the new UK data bill, but expressed some concern over the extent of exemptions proposed.

10 March 2023

China’s government has proposed creating a National Data Bureau tasked with spurring its digital economy and streamlining data management – but the role of the country’s main regulator is not expected to significantly change.

10 March 2023

Linklaters counsel Alex Roberts and Zhao Sheng associates Roger Li and Tiantian Ke analyse China’s much-awaited finalised Personal Information Export Standard Contract.

10 March 2023

Shook Hardy & Bacon partners Melissa Siebert and Erin Bolan Hines joined Cozen O’Connor to defend and advise companies on BIPA and other pressing privacy concerns.

10 March 2023

Corporate in-house lawyers are anticipating an uptick in data privacy and cybersecurity class actions as emerging regulations and novel legal theories test US courtrooms, according to a survey.

09 March 2023

Former ICO head Elizabeth Denham has said the current arrangement of the one-stop-shop mechanism is causing tensions with member states that see themselves as unable to address the harms being caused by big tech.

09 March 2023