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Your quarterly privacy & cybersecurity update

Welcome to the third edition of Updata – the international quarterly update from Eversheds Sutherland’s dedicated Privacy and Cybersecurity team. Updata provides you with a compilation of privacy and cybersecurity regulatory and legal updates from our contributors around the globe over the past quarter. This quarter’s report features commentary on a number of interesting developments,...

Microsoft – Eversheds Sutherland Whitepapers: Cyber threats and data sovereignty in the oil & gas industry

Eversheds Sutherland, in collaboration with Microsoft, is delighted to announce the launch of our latest thought leadership papers: Cyber threats in the oil and gas sector: The cyber threat is changing and increasingly in the crosshairs is the energy sector. If you’re an oil and gas company, you can’t afford the loss of confidential information or disruption to operations. Download the...

Biometrics beware – Compliance and the Biometric Information Privacy Act

In light of the rising tide of costly class action lawsuits brought under the Illinois Biometric Information Privacy Act (BIPA), companies that use biometrics—even, in some cases, companies outside of Illinois that do not themselves collect biometric information—should be become familiar with this statute’s strict requirements. • Even photographs, when used for security purposes like...