11/5/2025 12:30:56 PM Always in Season: Luxury, Fashion, and the Law – The hidden privacy risks in luxury retail stores By Talia Boiangin Behar Tyler Thompson Why in-person data collection now demands the same scrutiny as online tracking Luxury and fashion retailers have always mastered the art...
10/31/2025 5:01:14 PM Turning financial transactions into strategic intelligence for social housing By Sarah Kay Adriana Klincova Introduction In the world of social housing, charging/funding exercises are often seen as transactional necessities - a means to secure...
10/28/2025 3:39:22 PM Freshfields' report: Data Law Trends 2026 By Giles Pratt Christoph Werkmeister Data law is a key area of focus for regulators, with new rules, stricter enforcement, and diverging approaches across jurisdictions. Our...
10/23/2025 6:28:38 AM The Power of Custom Auditing in Driving Organisational Progress By Rathin Grover Auditing has long been seen as a compliance necessity - a process designed to verify adherence to requirements. Yet, for organizations...
10/21/2025 1:32:18 PM Can Brussels change? One year after Draghi – the EU's Digital Simplification Package By Christopher Burns On 16 September 2025, almost a year after the European Commission published the landmark Draghi Report on lagging European...
10/21/2025 7:32:18 AM New Obligations for Service Providers Under Germany’s EBewMG Implementing the EU e‑Evidence Directive By Johannes Berchtold The German Federal Government has published its draft law (Elektronische-Beweismittel-Umsetzungs-und-Durchführungsgesetz – EBewMG) to...
10/18/2025 6:23:07 AM GALA's Global guide to privacy laws in advertising and marketing - new edition published By Lee Ramsay The Global Advertising Lawyers Alliance (GALA) has published the third edition of its highly regarded guide, Privacy Law: A Global Legal...
10/15/2025 11:53:48 AM EU AI Act unpacked #30: Commission launches consultation on serious AI incident reporting rules By Christoph Werkmeister Davide Borelli Vera Ibes Introduction On 26 September 2025, the European Commission opened a public consultation on its draft guidance and standard reporting...
10/10/2025 5:47:47 PM Federal government recalls workers to produce key inflation report By Cristobal de Atucha The Bureau of Labor Statistics will recall some staff during the government shutdown to ensure release of September’s consumer-price...
9/29/2025 9:32:50 AM The EU simplification drive continues at pace – Digital Omnibus is just around the corner By Natalie Pettinger Kearney Victor Garcia Lopez Anna Lehnert Early in its mandate, the second von der Leyen Commission has demonstrably prioritised regulatory simplification. Following the...
9/11/2025 9:39:46 AM EU-US Data Privacy Framework survives its first judicial challenge – but more are expected By Rachael Annear Jérôme Philippe Satya Staes Polet Christoph Werkmeister Davide Borelli Philipp Roos Laéna Bouafy Thomas Retière Adam Gillert +6 more... Show less The EU General Court delivered its much anticipated ruling on a challenge brought by a French politician against the EU-US Data Privacy...
9/8/2025 5:16:04 PM Magistrate Orders City to Produce Metadata in Civil Rights Class Action By Sharon Ann Doherty The 2020-2021 George Floyd and Daniel Prude protests were the catalyst to several civil rights class actions brought across the United...
9/8/2025 2:02:08 PM Court of Appeal considers threshold for damage in data protection claims By Cat Greenwood-Smith Rhodri Thomas Rachael Annear Christine Simpson Ishmael Liwanda +2 more... Show less The Court of Appeal recently handed down its judgment in Farley and Paymaster (Trading as Equiniti), finding there is no de minimis...
9/4/2025 2:07:52 PM When Private Becomes Professional: Italian DPA Sets Limits on Use of Employee Messages By Luca Capone Giuseppe Curtò Davide Borelli Matteo Tola +1 more... Show less In a decision dated 21 May 2025, the Italian Data Protection Authority (the Garante) addressed a critical and increasingly frequent...
9/1/2025 12:08:53 PM Data claims must be proved: lessons from the Court of Appeal on non-material damage By Cindy Knott Ever since Lloyd v Google [2021] stemmed the flow of mass data protection litigation, potential claimants have sought new ways to bring...
8/26/2025 8:50:33 AM The EU’s Transparency and Targeting of Political Advertising Regulation: Guidance to Support the Technical Implementation By Theresa Ehlen Jan Niklas Di Fabio Having entered into force on 9 April 2024, with most provisions set to apply from 10 October 2025, the Transparency and Targeting of...