In May 2023, the EU Pay Transparency Directive (Directive (EU) 2023/970) was adopted, with the purpose to implement a number of instruments to promote the transparency on the salaries, reducing [...]
On 30 May 2024, the European Union formally adopted one of the most ambitious overhauls of its anti-money laundering and counter-terrorist financing (AML/CFT) framework in decades. The so-called [...]
The Swiss Parliament passed the revised Federal Act on Data Protection (nFADP) in the fall of 2020. The Swiss Federal Council announced that the law will enter into force on September 1, 2023. As there will be no transition period, the requirements must [...]
What is Happening? In light of the increasing importance of whistleblowers and the decreasing levels of uniformity within EU legislation, the European Commission has created the: “Directive on the Protection of Persons who report Breaches of Union Law [...]
You may have heard of the California Consumer Protection Act (CCPA) which entered into effect at the beginning of this year. You can find more information here. In the state ballot in November 2020, Californians will be asked to decide the fate of another new privacy law, the Cali [...]
It would appear that the wind of data protection reform that has recently blown across the world has finally found its way to Nigeria with the passing of the Nigerian Data Protection Regulation (the Regulation) by the Nigerian Information Technology Development [...]
Nowadays crimes are more and more committed or at least facilitated by a smartphone or other computing device. That is why digital evidence in form of data is essential in almost all criminal investigations.[1] But that does not mean that the collectio [...]
On February 13, the Privacy Amendment (Notifiable Data Breaches) Bill 2016 passed both Houses of Parliament after two previous attempts to establish such notification obligation were unsuccessful. This means that Australians will need to be notified [...]
