Coverletter for the February 2021 Newsletter

Dear Friends, These are not normal times. Implementing proper IT Governance is essential. All companies must tighten up their cyber-security protocols for their remote workforce. In the past, the conventional wisdom on cyber-security was to play defence and respond quickly to breaches. The new policy is to be proactive, conduct scenario planning exercises and ensure […]

Schrems II experience for Taking Actionable Steps to make a Data Transfer Roadmap

The European Data Protection Board (EDPB) identified five legal use cases and Two Schrems II Unlawful Use Cases, in the recently released Schrems II Guidance 01/2020. Organisations have been eagerly awaiting this guidance, particularly concerning what kinds of additional safeguards could be applied to data to allow cloud processing and global data transfers to continue […]

The invalidation of the criticised Privacy Shield was required.  

The Schrems II judgment was anticipated, with the belief that it was long overdue. Strengthening the standard of data protection, data transfers, the proactive role of oversight authorities and the affirmation of data subject and data protection rights are at the core of the GDPR. However, the judgment was practical in its approach as it […]

Reporting, notifying and disclosing a data breach or cybersecurity incident.

Insufficient fulfilment of data breach notification obligations and accelerated breach notification obligations for many trades (e.g. the banking organisations and bank service providers based on the new reporting requirements from the Office of the Comptroller of the Currency (OCC), the Board of Governors of the Federal Reserve System, and the Federal Deposit Insurance Corporation (FDIC) […]

The invalidation of the criticised Privacy Shield was required.

The Schrems II judgment was projected, and some believe even long overdue, as strengthening the standard of data protection, data transfers, the proactive role of oversight authorities and the affirmation of data subject and data protection rights are at the core of the GDPR. However, the judgment was practical in its approach as it upheld […]

Happy New 2021

The final stretch of 2020 or the beginning of the launch of the 2021 decade. And what a disruption 2020 was! All businesses felt the business and corporate impact of the coronavirus (COVID-19) throughout the globe. We all had to navigate in rough seas to address a broad range of the interrelated pandemic issues that […]

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