12 June 2019
EU Regulatory Initiatives and Competition Policy in the Digital Era: What has been completed and what to expect in the next mandate
www.twobirds.com/en/news/articles/2019/global/eu-regulatory-initiatives-and-competition-policy-in-the-digital-era

This International Bar Association paper prepared under the leadership of Bird & Bird experts Hein Hobbelen, Francine Cunningham & Baptist Vleeshouwers, takes stock of EU Digital Single Market initiatives and ...

01 March 2019
Processing health data in France: What to look out for after GDPR?
www.twobirds.com/en/news/articles/2019/france/processing-health-data-in-france-what-to-look-out-for-after-gdpr

French law imposes stricter requirements than the General Data Protection Regulation (“GDPR”) regarding health data processing.

06 August 2020
Private use of corporate email accounts in Hungary
www.twobirds.com/en/news/articles/2020/hungary/private-use-of-corporate-email-accounts-in-hungary

In the last six months, the Hungarian Data Protection Authority (“NAIH”) has imposed a total of approx. EUR 5,000 in data protection fines for the private use of corporate email accounts, in three cases.

23 October 2020
China Data Protection Update: The First Draft of The Long-Awaited PRC Personal Information Protection Law released
www.twobirds.com/en/news/articles/2020/china/china-data-protection-update-the-first-draft-of-the-long-awaited-prc-personal-information-protection

The long-awaited draft of the Personal Information Protection Law of China (“Draft PI Protection Law”) was submitted for its first deliberation during the PRC National People’s Congress Standing Committee on 13 Oct ...

28 October 2020
China Data Protection Update and Deep Dive (1): Data sharing and cross-border data transfer rules under the Draft Personal Information Protection Law
www.twobirds.com/en/news/articles/2020/china/china-data-protection-update-and-deep-dive-1

The long-awaited draft of the Personal Information Protection Law of China (“Draft PI Protection Law”) was officially released for public consultation on 21 October 2020. In this article, which is the first of a series ...

25 March 2020
Guidance available on processing personal data from Finnish Ombudsman on COVID-19
www.twobirds.com/en/news/articles/2020/finland/guidance-available-on-processing-personal-data-from-finnish-ombudsman-on-covid-19

Both the European Data Protection Board (EDPB) and the Finnish Data Protection Ombudsman have stated that neither the GDPR nor the Finnish data protection laws stand in the way of the measures necessary in order to ...

25 May 2016
Bird & Bird's Media group today launch MediaWrites - a sharp mix of media industry news with a legal edge
www.twobirds.com/en/news/press-releases/2016/uk/bird-birds-media-group-today-launch-mediawrites

14 October 2019
Bird & Bird lawyers join EU innovation project SMART- BEAR
www.twobirds.com/en/news/press-releases/2019/global/bird-and-bird-lawyers-join-eu-innovation-project-smart--bear

International law firm Bird & Bird joins 26 organisations in a European Commission funded project that draws on big data to improve the health and wellbeing of European citizens. The four-year project aims to build a ...

18 December 2019
Large tech merger provides an early opportunity to test the fitness of the competition regime in 2020
www.twobirds.com/en/news/articles/2019/global/large-tech-merger-provides-an-early-opportunity-to-test-the-fitness-of-the-competition

Google's proposed acquisition of Fitbit provides an opportunity to test the fitness of the competition regime and reflect upon the ongoing global scrutiny of Big Tech.

24 June 2019
Big Data & Issues & Opportunities: Looking beyond
www.twobirds.com/en/news/articles/2019/global/big-data-and-issues-and-opportunities-looking-beyond

In this concluding article of our series on "Big Data & Issues & Opportunities", we want to start looking beyond the issues and opportunities that were identified in the 17 articles that make up the series.