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In this episode of TMT Talk, Harry Valetk is joined by Renata Amaral, Head of the Environment, Climate Change and Sustainability Practice Group at Trench Rossi Watanabe in Brazil, to discuss consumer protection in the video gaming industry with a special focus on advertising. Learn what makes video game consumers a special category of consumers, who acts as providers according to the law and court decisions, how the law considers children video game consumers and much more. https://open.spotify.com/episode/5UbATK7NbZaXvoB1i8ZImR

Our annual Tech Seminar aims to keep you up to date on all the latest legal trends and new developments that need to be kept front of mind in 2022. The Tech Case Law Update 2021 Session recordingPresentation Tech M&A market trends Session recordingPresentation Data Protection Update: The practical impact of recent and future UK and EU developments Session recordingPresentation Beyond Ransomware: The future of cyber-attacks and how to prepare now Session recordingPresentation Is there…

In this episode of TMT Talk, Harry Valetk, is joined by Tiago Zapater, a litigation partner at Trench Rossi Watanabe in Brazil, to discuss the monetization challenges in video games. Listen in to learn how video games sell and make money, loot boxes and their significance in the region, recent decisions and class actions in Brazil and much more. https://open.spotify.com/episode/1gQHSoWdjUlwNrvYgpXbCt

A webinar for providers of information technology services and products, and their customers In this webinar, our global experts addressed the challenges and options for companies in the TMT sector concerning the creation of instructions to processors and sub-processors for standardized telecommunications and software-enabled services, adequacy assessments for multiple jurisdictions, alignment of SCCs with commercial agreements and responses to government surveillance and data access requests. Our specialist panel discussed: When and how to use the…

Since November 2020, Germany has begun to introduce a myriad of media regulatory obligations that will affect a wide range of different media and technology service providers. Due to the number of new developments and regulatory rules included in several different laws, which apply to multiple services, it can be difficult not to lose track of all requirements. Therefore, we are starting a series that covers the most relevant requirements and to whom they apply,…

Earlier this year, we took a look at the implementation status of the European Electronic Communications Code (“EECC”) across the EU – see our previous Connect on Tech article. As noted in that article, the majority of EU countries missed the 21 December 2020 deadline for national implementation, with only a handful implementing relevant legislation (although some only partially). In response to those failures, the European Commission subsequently opened infringement procedures against the offending member…

The Monetary Authority of Singapore (MAS) recently revised its Technology Risk Management Guidelines 2021 after feedback from a 2019 public consultation and engaging with cyber security experts. In this episode, Stephanie Magnus, Ken Chia, and Ying Yi Liew take a closer look at compliance, regulator expectations, cyber threats, and other important considerations — taking into account that financial institutions encompass large multinational banks, insurance companies and small fintech startups. https://soundcloud.com/user-879185301-820444966/ep12-singapore-mas-revises-technology-risk-management-guidelines

The 21 December 2020 deadline for national implementation of the European Electronic Communications Code (EECC) has now passed. We checked in with our telecom regulatory teams on implementation status across the EU, and have drawn out some key takeaways: Deadline missed: Perhaps unsurprisingly given other priorities last year, the deadline for full implementation has been missed in most countries. Only Denmark, Finland, Greece, Hungary, the Netherlands and the UK have so far implemented the EECC…