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Data protection has become a major issue for legislators, regulators and consumers worldwide that organisations can no longer afford to ignore.

Our Data Privacy Scorebox helps you to assess your organisation’s level of data protection maturity. It requires completing a survey covering areas such as storage of data, use of data, and customers’ rights. Once completed, a report is produced, summarising your organisation’s alignment with 12 key areas of global data protection. The report also includes a practical action point check list and peer benchmarking data.

Transfer has been developed to streamline the process of carrying out TIAs, providing a clear step-by-step methodology so data exporters and importers can assess problematic laws and practices in “third countries”, the level of safeguards in place and the severity and likelihood of harm as a result of public authority access. 

Our IT Development Project Healthcheck toolkit has been developed to assist our clients in managing their projects efficiently, to identify and assess risks and to avoid disputes.

Notify is a web-based data breach assessment tool that provides consistent, objective, and efficient GDPR-compliant breach response handling through a quantitative algorithmic model, automated reporting, and flexible hosting options.

The EU has officially published its Artificial Intelligence Act (EU AI Act). As one of the first laws on AI by a major regulator anywhere, the regulation is expected to have far-reaching consequences, also for Europe’s global technological competitiveness. The European legislators have broadly approached AI by organising three categories of risks. These range from unacceptable and high-risk applications that will be heavily regulated, to applications that are only subject to limited rules.

To help you navigate this complex piece of regulation, DLA Piper updated its dedicated app with the final text as adopted by the EU Parliament and the European Council. Are you a legal advisor or a decision-maker wondering about the details and scope of the EU AI Act? Are you a Public Affairs or IT professional, or a journalist needing to stay up to date with the latest developments in AI?

The EU General Data Protection Regulation, which came into force in May 2018, introduced some of the most stringent data protection laws in the world. It is vital for anyone working with customer data to be familiar with its contents.

To help you navigate the GDPR, DLA Piper has created the DLA Piper GDPR mobile app. Available on Apple and Android devices, it allows you to access the full text of the General Data Protection Regulation on the move. The fully searchable text comes in 16 languages, links articles and recitals to show how they are related, and adds references back to provisions of the earlier Directive 95/46/EC.

The European Electronic Communications Code (EECC) entered into force on December 20th 2018 and was to have been transposed into the national law of each EU member state within two years. It was a complete overhaul and updating of the entire regulatory structure for spectrum and telecoms in the European Union and made significant changes to the regulations on telecoms markets – including by changing the definition of "electronic communication service" and adding rules designed to encourage further network investment, such as by liberalising regulation on "co-investment" schemes and on "wholesale only" networks.

It's a very lengthy document and so to help you navigate it DLA Piper has created the European Electronic Communications Code app. Available on Apple and Android devices, it allows you to access the full text of the regulation on the move and to find – easily – the relevant recitals for each article. In addition, articles from the new EECC are linked to corresponding articles from its (five) predecessor directives so that the you can instantly see what has changed from the old regime.