Please click here to read the latest data privacy alert from the Squire Patton Boggs Data Protection & Cybersecurity team. This week’s alert covers news from:

UK

  • Parliament Hears First Reading of Unsolicited Marketing Communications (Company Directors) Bill 2016-17
  • Worldwide Data Breaches Increase in 2016

EU

  • Advocate General of the Court of Justice of the European Union Finds That “RTBF Not Absolute”
  • Guernsey Plans to Keep in Line With the GDPR
  • Advocate General: Draft Agreement Between Canada and the EU on PNR Data Partly Illicit

Germany

  • The “Deutsche Juristentag” Votes on Digital Reforms of Civil and Labour Law

US

  • New York State Proposes Cybersecurity Regulation for Financial Institutions
  • Developments Regarding International Communications Privacy Act

Annette Demmel (Germany)

Francesca Fellowes (Leeds)