Piotr Foitzik, Senior Counsel Data Privacy at ABB

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Consents and Their Management Under India’s Digital Personal Data Protection Act

September 6, 2023

India has enacted its long-awaited privacy legislation, the Digital Personal Data Protection Act on August 12. While there are various aspects of this Act which distinguish it from other privacy laws in the world, one that is particularly interesting is its approach towards user consent.

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Data Protection Insights

Why We Need a Completely New Type of Laws and Regulations in the Era of AI

August 9, 2023

The laws and regulations of the future will increasingly be read, analyzed and implemented by AI or by lawyers augmented with AI, and also by technology and business people, especially for SMEs who cannot afford lawyers.

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Data Protection Insights

Privacy, Information Security, Risk Management, AI, Compliance: How to Operate Multiple Frame-works at the Same Time

May 1, 2023

Amid great number of existing frameworks in the area of risk management, compliance, privacy and security, new are still drafted and existing ones updated and refined. This is first and for all for big and global companies on which there is most pressure to stay compliant and ethical in whatever they do or intend to do.

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Data Protection Insights

Policies and Procedures as Privacy and Security Controls: Why It Is Time They Are Replaced by Something Live and Interactive

February 24, 2023

We are at the stage where the most fundamental and basic controls on which all privacy and security programs rest to some extent, are at a risk of becoming illusory, outdated, not read and used by a great majority of relevant stakeholders. How can we apply more sophisticated approach and tools?

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Data Privacy Insights

Privacy Notices and Consent Forms: Why, Even Though They Are Unwieldy, They Will Most Likely Stay With Us in the Years To Come

February 2, 2023

We should strive for a human-centric, value-driven, yet flexible and business friendly standards backed by laws and regulatory enforcement. Yet abandoning the old ways of relying on privacy notices and consent forms will remain contentious, controversial and, if it happens, still take a lot of time.

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Data Protection Insights

International Transfers of Personal Data and Privacy Contracting: How Switzerland Wins Over UK Both in Terms of Business-Friendliness and EU Convergence

November 2, 2022

Both countries, while accepting the EU standard contractual clauses as a compliance transfer mechanism still requires the clauses to be amended to reflect their own legal requirements. The big difference is that the Swiss requirements are very simple.

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Different Approaches to Data Privacy: Why EU-US Privacy Alignment in the Months To Come Is Inevitable

July 18, 2022

As the bonds and the economic cooperation go deeper and deeper, there are many avenues and initiatives for cooperation and discussion. EU-US privacy alignment in the immediate future is not only possible but de facto inevitable.

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Data Privacy Insights

How Privacy Fits Into the Ever More Quickly Evolving Risk and Compliance Arena

June 10, 2022

Changes in the risk and compliance arena are accelerating in the recent years. With these developments it is urgently needed to redefine the place of privacy and the privacy team in this evolving landscape just the same as establishing links with overlapping, adjacent and related areas of risk and compliance.

Why We Need a Completely New Type of Laws and Regulations in the Era of AI

Privacy, Information Security, Risk Management, AI, Compliance: How to Operate Multiple Frame-works at the Same Time

Policies and Procedures as Privacy and Security Controls: Why It Is Time They Are Replaced by Something Live and Interactive

Different Approaches to Data Privacy: Why EU-US Privacy Alignment in the Months To Come Is Inevitable

How Privacy Fits Into the Ever More Quickly Evolving Risk and Compliance Arena

Mitigating Election Disinformation

July’s Disney Data Breach Included Financial and Strategy Secrets, Cruise Passenger and Staff PII

Avis Car Rental Suffers a Data Breach Impacting Nearly 300,000 Customers