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The Data Act also sets out a series of information obligations to ensure that companies provide customers with the information necessary to switch, including:
The Cybersecurity & Privacy Compass: A Global Guide to Constant Change
The Cybersecurity & Privacy Compass is your global guide to constant cybersecurity and privacy change. In our essential guides, we provide everything you need to know about key regulations impacting global businesses.
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In this Essential Guide, part of Orrick’s Cybersecurity & Privacy Compass Series, we offer insights into the Cyberspace Administration of China's (CAC) new rules and requirements for cross-border data transfers.
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In this guide, we answer pressing questions about the European Data Act, including what the Data Act covers, who is impacted, the law's objectives, rights and obligations created by the act, legislative status and recommended next steps for companies.
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Both the EU and UK GDPR grant data subjects rights in relation to their personal data. Article 15 gives data subjects the right to access their personal data and increasingly, data subjects are exercising this right by sending data subject access requests (“DSARs”) to companies.
In this guide, our team sets out 5 things to consider when responding to a DSAR to help ensure your company complies with its statutory obligations under EU and UK data protection laws.
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The European Data Act is the proposed regulation in Europe (EU) for harmonised rules on fair access to and use of data Data Act). It is one of the key measures intended to make more data available for use by the private and public sector. The Data Act complements the Data Governance Regulation proposed in November 2020, which is the first deliverable under A European strategy for data. While the Data Governance Regulation creates the processes and structures to facilitate the sharing of data, the Data Act clarifies who can generate value from data and under which conditions.
In our essential guide, we answer pressing questions about the European Data Act, including what the Data Act is about, who is impacted and what the objectives are, the new right and obligations created by the act, the legislative status, and recommended next steps for companies.
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In this Essential Guide, we will provide insight into the potential fines that companies may face for violating the General Data Protection Regulation ("GDPR"), specifically when infringements are deemed negligent or wilful, as outlined in the ruling by the European Court of Justice for the European Union ("CJEU").