By: Nathan Bush | Qiang Li | Ray Xu
On June 10, 2021, the Standing Committee of the National People’s Congress (NPC) adopted the Anti-Foreign Sanctions Law of the PRC, which dramatically expands the potential regulatory penalties and civil liabilities for foreign persons acting contrary to Chinese national interests.
Continue Reading Examining potential implications of China’s new Anti-Foreign Sanctions Law
Since the 1990s, one of the great success stories in India has been the growth of the IT and outsourcing services sector. Building first from the shortage of specialized IT resources required to address the Y2K bug in the run-up to the new millennium (for those old enough to remember!),
Continue Reading COVID-19 and the India services sector
The impact of the coronavirus disease 2019 (COVID-19) pandemic on the technology sector will have a wide-reaching effect on the world economy and how technology companies do business for years to come. And while no particular sector will be immune to the current crisis, a few critical issues unique to
Continue Reading Key legal issues that bear remembering during a pandemic
By Thomas M. deButts and Thomas Reynolds
Under an interim final rule issued by the Directorate of Defense Trade Controls (DDTC) that is set to take effect on March 25, 2020, parties will be able to send, take or store unclassified technical data controlled for export under the International Traffic
Continue Reading Foreign ITAR cloud storage now permitted
Is your startup considering hiring software developers in a foreign country to work on the latest version of your app? Is your company considering acquiring an entity with employees who have developed intellectual property (“IP”) in non-U.S. jurisdictions? From hiring independent contractors or employees (each may be referred to in
Continue Reading Cross-Border Considerations for Protecting IP Developed by Employees and Independent Contractors
Calling on Member States and EU institutions to open discussions with US authorities in order to find political, legal and technical solutions to transfer data to the US, the G29 states that Model Clauses and BCRs can be used while G29 is analyzing transfer mechanisms; enforcement may begin in February 2016.
On October 16, 2015, the EU data protection authorities assembled in the Article 29 Working Party (“G29″) issued their first statement following the European Court of Justice’s October 6, 2015 decision invalidating the EU-US Safe Harbor.
Continue Reading BREAKING NEWS – SAFE HARBOR: G29 Issues its First Statement on Schrems
Written by Stefan Panic
Further to its initial public statement regarding the ECJ Safe Harbor judgement, the Austrian DPA has released an update, clarifying its position that, for the time being, the Austrian DPA will accept EU Model Clauses or Binding Corporate Rules as basis for transfers of personal data
Written by: Carol Umhoefer; Farid Bouguettaya; and Maruschka Graham
In 1994, France implemented a law, known as the “Toubon Law” after France’s then-minister of Culture, Jacques Toubon, to preserve the French language, protect French consumers and promote French culture. At the time, the world wide web
Continue Reading “Toubon Law” 20 Years On: The Cyber Economy and France’s Law on the Mandatory Use of the French Language
By Patrick Van Eecke and Antoon Dierick
Almost five months after federal parliamentary elections took place, the negotiators from the four political parties around the negotiating table (Flemish parties NVA, CD&V and Open VLD and Walloon party MR) reached a coalition agreement which contains quite a few interesting policy initiatives
Continue Reading BELGIUM: Belgian government’s new focus on privacy and technology laws
By Patrick Van Eecke and Elisabeth Verbrugge
Working Party 29 issued a working document on model clauses for personal data transfers from EU data processors to non-EU sub-processors. This is an important step towards creating a more comprehensive framework for contract-based personal data transfers outside the EEA.
