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EU publishes draft adequacy decisions for transfers of personal data to the UK The EU Commission has published two draft adequacy decisions for transfers of personal data to the UK, one under the GDPR and the other for the Law Enforcement Directive. This will be welcome news to many UK and EU businesses grappling with the...
Regulating Digital – Can privacy laws enhance digital innovation? In our third and final podcast Natalie Donovan interviews Rob Sumroy and Duncan Blaikie about whether our current privacy rules are fit-for-purpose in an increasingly digital age, whether the ICO is doing enough to encourage innovation in the digital...
Investigations and Enforcement Outlook 2021: GDPR Enforcement and Litigation Trends In the first podcast of our Investigations and Enforcement Outlook 2021 series, Jonathan Cotton, Richard Jeens and Rebecca Cousin discuss the outlook for data privacy-related enforcement and litigation in 2021. In particular they focus on the increased...
The Lens Newsletter - February 2021 A selection of our latest blogs on all things digital from our experts and thought leaders here at Saughter and May.
Podcast: Regulating Digital – How can we regulate data in an increasingly digital world? In this podcast Richard Sargeant (COO of Faculty, a leading applied AI company, and a board member of the UK’s Centre for Data Ethics and Innovation) and Rob Sumroy (Head of Technology Group and co-head of Global Privacy) discuss the use, ownership and...
Regulating Digital – Competition and privacy – the best of frenemies? In the first podcast of our Regulating Digital series, Ariel Ezrachi (Professor of Competition Law at the University of Oxford) and Jordan Ellison (Competition Partner at Saughter and May) discuss the relationship between privacy and competition...
The Lens Newsletter - January 2021 A selection of our latest blogs on all things digital from our experts and thought leaders here at Saughter and May.
A reprieve for EU-UK data flows but other data privacy implications of Brexit remain Many businesses will have breathed a sigh of relief following the announcement of interim arrangements for data flows in the EU-UK Trade and Cooperation Agreement of 24 December. The continued free flow of personal data from the EU to the UK for a...
Reflections on the EU-UK Co-operation Agreement The EU-UK Trade and Co-operation Agreement (the TCA), which came into provisional effect at 11pm on 31 December, is welcome in terms both of what has been achieved, and in providing a more cordial basis for future EU-UK relations and co-operation.
Changing winds: VIE deals subject to Chinese merger control after all For more than a decade, companies structured as variable interest entities (VIEs) were commonly treated as “unacceptable” for Chinese merger control purposes due to their dubious legal status. This notion was recently “rectified”...