In this article published by the Financial Express, partner Anne Petterd explains why an important issue for the e-commerce sector in preparing for the new Indian law will be to recognize that data is not solely the concern of privacy regulators. Competition and consumer regulatory issues are also being raised in relation to processing personal and other data. Click here to read.
The Australian Government has announced a range of short term and long term measures to assist Australian media businesses in light of COVID-19 and its impact on the sector. In addition to new industry relief measures, the Government and key regulators such as the Australian Competition and Consumer Commission (ACCC) and Australian Communications and Media Authority (ACMA) have announced that various media reform initiatives already underway in 2020 will be accelerated, delayed or altered in some…
Anne Petterd and Mattias Hedwall join Raffaele Giarda in a timely discussion on COVID-19’s impact on the TMT sector and supply chain. The episode begins with insights on how the TMT sector’s supply chain has been affected and how companies in the tech industry have chosen to respond in the last few months, and ends with providing listeners a view of possible long-term solutions to disruptions in the supply chain. With “Coronavirus: Impact on the TMT Sector and Supply Chain,” TMT Talk…
The concept of data portability has been of increasing interest in APAC countries. This is partly influenced by data portability provisions in the GDPR. However, scoping and implementing data portability rights in practice is proving challenging. Here is a snapshot of differing and developing approaches.In Thailand, the right to data portability has been incorporated into the new Personal Data Protection Act, which will come into effect in May 2020. In India, the right to data…
After jointly investigating a data breach in July and August 2015 that occurred to a Canadian dating website operator’s system, the Australian Privacy Commissioner and the Privacy Commissioner of Canada released a joint report regarding their findings. The affected websites included the Ashley Madison dating website which had users in over 50 countries. Among other disclosures, the unauthorised access resulted in online posting of details from approximately 36 million Ashley Madison user accounts. The report…