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A recent change in the Danish legislation on annual reporting for large companies has come into force. The change requires covered companies to supplement their annual report with a statement on their policies on data ethics. The change will have...

We are seeing the introduction of new or updated "GDPR-inspired" data protection regulations across the Middle East and Africa. Although the European Union’s General Data Protection Regulation (GDPR) is driving an element of much needed global harmonisation, the GDPR also...

The saying 'Every man for himself' indicates not only a fundamental principle of competition along with an ambitious striving towards a goal. Much more, the saying enhances the idea of singularity and maybe even exclusion. 'Every man for himself' thus...

  Introduction  Following the CJEU Schrems II court ruling, WLC focuses on a series of aspects relating to the ruling and its implications. In this article, we examine the legal basis requirement and why the European Commission’s Standard Contractual Clauses, otherwise known as the Model Clause or SCCs, are still alive - and what you need to be aware of when applying them.  Obviously, before...

The Dubai International Financial Centre (“DIFC”), a financial services free zone in the Emirate of Dubai in the UAE, recently released Data Protection Law DIFC No.5 of 2020. The law came into effect on 1 July 2020. Companies have a...

Introduction This post continues a series of WLC commentaries following the recent Schrems II judgement by the CJEU. The judgement invalidated the Privacy Shield and confirmed the validity of Standard Contractual Clauses (“SCCs”) as a cross-border data transfer mechanism. It however imposed...