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The Colorado Attorney General’s Office recently approved amendments to the Colorado Privacy Act Rules (Rules) to clarify upcoming changes to the Colorado Privacy Act (CPA), which create new obligation...
Author(s): Christine Lyon, Christine Chong, Jackson Myers
Is there a threshold for the number of requests under the GDPR after which they can be denied? The Austrian data protection authority certainly thought so when it rejected an individual’s complaint, q...
Author(s): Estella Dannhausen, Thomas Retière, Jérôme Philippe
The General Court, the European Union’s first instance Court, recently handed down a decision on privacy (T-354/22) that stands out. The decision involves alleged shortcomings regarding compliance wit...
Author(s): Christoph Werkmeister, Benjamin Blum
Balancing innovation with GDPR compliance In December 2024, the European Data Protection Board (EDPB) and the UK Information Commissioner’s Office (UK ICO) separately published significant guidance on...
Author(s): Christoph Werkmeister, Giles Pratt, Tristan Lockwood, Benjamin Blum
The UK Intellectual Property Office (IPO) has launched a consultation on proposed changes to copyright law in the UK. The consultation addresses the challenge of applying existing copyright laws to th...
Author(s): Giles Pratt, Zofia Aszendorf, Joseph Mason, Jade Bryant
On 3 January 2025, the Indian Ministry of Electronics and Information Technology (MeitY) released draft Digital Personal Data Protection Rules, 2025 (DPDP Rules) for public consultation. These draft ...
Author(s): Richard Bird, Harshavardhan Ganesan
As far as MiCAR is concerned, December 2024 was a busy month for both market participants and competent authorities. On 17 December 2024, the ESMA published the last remaining guidelines and other pol...
Author(s): Alexander Glos, Daniel Klingenbrunn
This post is an update of our previous post published on June 21, 2024. The harmonisation of European financial services law for cryptocurrencies is approaching with great strides. As per the provisio...
Author(s): Janina Heinz, Daphne van der Houwen, Daniel Klingenbrunn, Eva Schneider, Steffie De Backer