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Updata: Your quarterly privacy & cybersecurity update

Edition 24: April to June 2024

July 09, 2024

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Welcome to the latest edition of Updata – the international update from Eversheds Sutherland’s dedicated Privacy and Cybersecurity team.

Updata provides you with a compilation of privacy and cybersecurity regulatory and legal developments from our contributors around the globe over the past quarter, including:

  • the rise in cookie-based litigation and enforcement
  • processing personal data in connection with video systems, including CCTV and body cameras
  • the proliferation of comprehensive US state privacy laws continues
  • guidance and legislation tackling the governance challenges of using AI
  • countries continuing their efforts to prepare for the implementation of the NIS2 Directive
  • international collaboration on online safety, and stricter legislation in relation to children and their data
  • new court decisions and frameworks on the use of biometric data, such as in the context of facial recognition technologies
  • using data for scientific research

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