Under a very recent study conducted by the Association of Compliance Officers in Ireland (ACOI), released on January 28th, 76% of Irish businesses believe the data protection landscape is more uncertainty now than it was 12 months ago, due to 3 main reasons: Brexit, the increase in remote working and the impact of the Schrems II ruling.

As to such last reason, in July, the Court of Justice of the European Union (CJEU) issued a landmark ruling in the Schrems II case, when invalidating the EU-US Privacy Shield arrangement and raising questions over the level of data protection offered for those relying on Standard Contract Clauses (SCCs) when transferring data from the European Economic Area (EEA) to a third country.

Companies from all over the world are now concerned whether the existing mechanisms in place allowing for cross border transfers outside the EEA (such as to entities pertaining to the same corporate group located in other countries) remain valid.

Due to additional factors, businesses in all countries are disoriented when it comes to the applicable mechanisms to transfer personal data overseas. In Brazil, for instance, we have a brand new Data Protection Law (the LGPD) -- now finally in force and effect -- that sets forth rigid instruments to allow for cross border data transfers, analogous to the ones provided by the GDPR, without a fully operational Data Protection Authority that should take actions to enable such instruments.

Certain cross border mechanisms can be considered onerous and unworkable and the companies should evaluate the adequate proceedings to be adopted. We should also not lose sight of the fact that maintaining a strong data protection culture within the corporate group is a key factor for compliance with the applicable data protection rules, including the ones covering cross border data transfers.

Learn more on this with the PrivacyRules experty from Brazil Luiza Sato from ASBZ Advogados!

Our global experts Gabriel Avigdor from datalex | digital lawyers (Switzerland), Padraig Walsh from Tanner De Witt (Hong Kong), Stephen Mathias from Kochhar & Co. (India), Markus Myhrberg from Lexia Attorneys (Finland) and Michael Nitardy from Frost Brown Todd (USA) explored, in a roundtable discussion, the new WhatsApp privacy policies and their impact from the perspective of five different corners of the world to understand what happened, what the alternatives do and which are the real changes!

Watch the PrivacyRules first webinar of 2021 on cybercrime during the pandemic!

These are times when cybercrime is rampant and even the EU is thinking of enabling law enforcement exercise of advanced penetration of data. Our webinar comes in a very timely moment and provide useful independent information to a larger audience within Europe and abroad.

This recorded webinar includes an open debate and Q&A at the very end.

Don't miss the opportunity to join and interact with our high level speakers:
- Ben Waites from Europol
- Jaime Ansieta Antivilo, from Policía de investigaciones de Chile
- Els De Busser, from the Leiden University - Faculty of Governance and Global Affairs
- Luca Brunoni, from ILCE - Institut de lutte contre la criminalité économique HEG Arc
- Andrew Gould, from the National Police Chiefs'​ Council & INTERPOL Advisor
- Kemal Veli Açar, Independent Researcher & Consultant for the Cybercrime Programme Office of the Council of Europe (C-PROC).
- Sebastian Stranieri CEO at VU SECURITY
- Ruben Roex (Moderator), Attorney-at-law / Partner at Timelex (Belgium)
- Juan Carlos Manríquez Rosales, Founding Partner at MBCIA Abogados (Chile),
- Ludovic Tirelli, Founding Partner at Penalex Avocats - Avocats & spécialistes en droit pénal (Switzerland)

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Listen this short talk with Rose Marie King-Dominguez from SyCipLaw focused on data privacy law issues triggered by the COVID-19 pandemic, and relevant to employers.

This session will give you a very quick basic briefing on the data privacy regime in the Philippines. This quick webcast is of particular interest for Enterprises with a local presence, or that receive services from Philippine BPOs or other companies.

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Our Portuguese expert Tiago Félix da Costa, from the law firm Morais Leitão, Galvão Teles, Soares da Silva & Associados, joined us in this privacy espresso to discuss how the application of the new E-privacy Regulation may affect the European framework on direct marketing.

In this espresso, we analyzed the differences between the previous directive 2002/58/EC and the upcoming e-privacy regulation by using the Portuguese law as tertium comparationis. Find out what's new and how you can prepare for this significant change.