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...
10/15/2025 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Davide Borelli Vera Ibes Introduction On 26 September 2025, the European Commission opened a public consultation on its draft guidance and standard reporting...
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...
4/22/2025 9:32:04 AM Get ready for a new era in cyber security: what the UK's forthcoming cyber law means for you By Giles Pratt Rhodri Thomas Christine Simpson Adam Gillert +1 more... Show less The UK Government recently published a policy statement outlining the scope of its proposed Cyber Security and Resilience Bill. This is...
2/25/2025 12:29:35 PM Ransomware? Beware! Government launch consultation on new regime By Rhodri Thomas Giles Pratt Rachael Annear Christine Simpson Tochukwu Egenti Sunil Singh +3 more... Show less The Government has now launched its consultation (the Consultation), which proposes an ‘entirely new approach’ to ransomware, aimed at...
2/5/2025 7:53:27 PM German Election #2: Digital Policies in the 2025 Election Campaign – How Germany’s Political Parties Want Germany to Catch Up on Digitalisation By Alex Schmidtke On 23 February 2025, almost 60 million German voters will elect a new federal parliament in snap elections after the collapse of the...
1/28/2025 8:13:39 PM 10 Key MedTech Themes for 2025 By Vinita Kailasanath Shannon O'Hara Note: this article originally ran in MedCity News The MedTech industry is accelerating at an unprecedented pace. As AI reshapes the...
11/20/2024 7:47:19 PM Cyber Resilience Act – How to implement the new cybersecurity rules for digital products By Theresa Ehlen Lutz Riede Christoph Werkmeister Julia Utzerath Christina Moellnitz Jimena Gonzalez +3 more... Show less The Cyber Resilience Act (CRA) has become reality: it has been published in the Official Journal of the EU on 20 November 2024 and will...
10/24/2024 11:49:16 AM Leading the Change: 2025 Data Law Trends report By Christine Lyon Giles Pratt Christoph Werkmeister We’re excited to share our latest report, Leading the Change: 2025 Data Law Trends. Data now impacts all aspects of businesses, from...
8/9/2024 12:22:56 PM How to implement NIS2 By Christoph Werkmeister Hanna Hoffmann Julia Utzerath The national implementation of the new EU Directive on measures for a high common level of cybersecurity for specific sectors across the...
7/23/2024 8:06:59 PM Ransom Payments and Other Cybercrime Challenges: How the Threat Landscape is Evolving By Moritz Pellmann Christoph Werkmeister Timothy Howard Cristina Hajek Gross Felix Mayer Lina Berezgova +3 more... Show less As the threat landscape evolves, organizations worldwide face increasing challenges related to ransomware attacks (see our previous blog...