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After three years of uncertainty over the Serious Fraud Office’s (“ SFO”) powers to obtain documents  located overseas, the UK Supreme Court has clarified the extraterritorial effect of the legislation facilitating that power domestically. The Supreme Court held that KBR, Inc., the U.S. engineering, procurement and construction company, was not required to provide the SFO with documents that were located overseas during a criminal investigation into its UK subsidiary, KBR Ltd. The overtu...

Wednesday, February 24, 2021 The on-going state competition to enact comprehensive privacy legislation, triggered by the enactment of the 2018 California Consumer Privacy Act, is heating up in 2021. We recently wrote a post on the recent Virginia developments, but the Commonwealth of Virginia is not alone. New York was closely watched in privacy circles last year, as approximately 30 privacy bills had been introduced and were discussed during the 2019-2020 session. None of the bills...

Wednesday, February 24, 2021 After three years of uncertainty over the Serious Fraud Office’s (“ SFO”) powers to obtain documents  located overseas, the UK Supreme Court has clarified the extraterritorial effect of the legislation facilitating that power domestically. The Supreme Court held that KBR, Inc., the U.S. engineering, procurement and construction company, was not required to provide the SFO with documents that were located overseas during a criminal investigation into...

Pilot regime for market infrastructures based on distributed ledger technology (DLT) Digital operational resilience / cloud computing (DORA) Our International Finance and Financial Regulation Group have reviewed the package and have summarised their key findings below. 1. Digital Finance Strategy (DFS) The European Commission has set out a strategic objective addressing the need to drive and harness digital transformation within the EU financial sector by promoting new opportunities and tacklin...

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To embed, copy and paste the code into your website or blog: Happy Data Privacy Day! Today we report on New York Governor Andrew Cuomos recent State of the State address, in which he announced the states 2021 policy agenda. Included in the Governors agenda are enhanced consumer protections over data privacy—mirroring both the California Consumer Privacy Act (CCPA) and the EUs General Data Protection Regulation (GDPR)—and proposing technology resources and assistance to community and regiona...

To embed, copy and paste the code into your website or blog: A dedicated biometric privacy law has been introduced by legislators in the New York State Assembly. The bill, titled the Biometric Privacy Act, would apply to private entities that collect, capture, purchase, receive through trade, or otherwise obtain biometric identifiers or biometric information of persons or customers. Biometric identifiers are defined in the bill as "a retina or iris scan, fingerprint, voiceprint, or scan of hand...

Since the pandemic started last year, European citizens have had to radically realign their lives to the new reality. For the most part, this has meant rapidly migrating our personal and professional lives online. With this comes a broad range of policy measures aimed at reinforcing Europe’s connectivity and heightening cybersecurity standards across 2021. The pandemic also resulted in vastly accelerated profits for many of the tech giants, highlighting their dominance across online markets a...

Department of Agriculture 1. The Secretary of the Department of Agriculture should direct the Chief Data Officer to perform an assessment of current staff data literacy and data skills, conduct a gap analysis between the current staffs skills and the skills the agency requires, and establish a baseline performance plan to close the identified data skills and literacy gaps. (Recommendation 1) Open OpenActions to satisfy the intent of the recommendation have not been...