There is a growing trend among customer-facing businesses towards using artificial intelligence (“AI”) to analyze voice data on customer calls. Companies are using these tools for various purposes including identity…
The EU’s General Data Protection Regulation 2016 (the “GDPR”) changed the global privacy landscape, and has been called the “gold standard” for data protection regulation. Recently, a number of U.S.…
On September 15, 2022, California Governor Gavin Newsom signed into law the bipartisan AB 2273, known as the California Age-Appropriate Design Code Act (“California Design Code”). The California Design Code…
On 18 July 2022, the UK government published the Data Protection and Digital Information Bill (the “Bill”), which proposes reforms to the UK’s data protection and e-privacy landscape in-line with…
On November 14, 2021, the Cyberspace Administration of China (“CAC”) released the draft “Network Data Security Management Regulations” (the “Draft Regulations”) for public comment. The Draft Regulations have major implications…
The Data Strategy and Security team at Debevoise & Plimpton LLP has authored the 2022 edition of the Privacy Law Answer Book (Practising Law Institute, 2021), a user-friendly guide to…
European Data Protection Roundup – October 2021 Key takeaways this October include: Liability for excessive security footage: The need to ensure security systems are configured appropriately to minimise the scope…
European Data Protection Roundup – September 2021 Key takeaways this September include: Transparency: The importance of providing individuals sufficient information to enable them to understand how their personal data is…
Key takeaways from developments this August include: Indications of what the UK’s post-Brexit data transfer arrangements might look like – companies transferring data from the UK will want to follow…
European Data Protection Roundup – July Key takeaways from developments this July include: a blockbuster €746 million fine against Amazon – the largest ever GDPR penalty – showing the Regulation’s…