Cynthia O’Donoghue and Aselle Ibraimova from Reed Smith’s London Office discuss changes in the EU/UK to the standard contractual clauses for data transfers between EU/UK and non-EU/non-UK countries. The two explore the new interpretations of the rules on data transfers by the EU Data Protection authorities, the impact on day-to-day compliance, the introduction of data transfer tools by other countries around the world, and the adjustments that businesses need to make as a result of these changes.

Financial regulators are increasingly concerned with the enforcement of electronic communication requirements, making compliance a top priority for financial institutions. However, compliance has become greatly complicated by the many changing and emerging technologies as well as an amorphous definition of what an eComm actually is.

Anthony Diana and Therese Craparo join Robert Cruz from Smarsh to discuss what electronic communications are and how they impact financial institutions.

Companies are increasingly looking for technological solutions that are accessible to their employees and customers with disabilities, including within M365.  Angie Matney and Anthony Diana from Reed Smith, James Hart from Lighthouse, and Emily Dimond from PNC discuss accessibility laws and regulations, the general approach to accessibility in M365, and related privacy, security records and eDiscovery considerations.

Christine Morgan, whom The Daily Journal recognizes as “one of the country’s leading experts on what is, and what is not, an abstract idea” under the Alice defense, joins Hallie Wimberly to discuss how to successfully navigate the complex issues related to Section 101 of the U.S. Patent Code, including how to protect clients from expensive patent litigation on abstract patents by invalidating them early on in litigation.

In Q1 2022, the UK’s Information Commissioner’s Office (ICO) issued 26 enforcement actions. Reed Smith associates Angelika Bialowas and Aselle Ibraimova compare these with enforcement actions from last year and share their predictions of what to expect in the future.

Anthony Diana and Samantha Walsh join Lighthouse’s Matthew Newington to discuss the complex eDiscovery considerations of Teams, including challenges with data preservation and collection, determining whether to treat Teams channels as a custodial or non-custodial data source, identifying “relevant” channels, and preserving and collecting third party application data.

Anthony Diana and Kiriaki Tourikis join Lighthouse’s Matthew Newington and Justin Marsh to discuss the features and eDiscovery challenges with SharePoint Online, including potential downstream issues with versioning, limitations on preservation hold library collection, as well as tips on proactive preservation.

Catherine Castaldo and Christine Gartland discuss the recent National Institute of Standards and Technology (NIST) guidance on practices for software supply chain security and how it can be applied to private businesses and their respective software supply chains and cybersecurity practices.

Lighthouse’s John Holliday joins Reed Smith’s Anthony Diana and Samantha Walsh to discuss the unique features/functions of OneDrive for Business that distinguish it from a traditional home or personal drive, new artifacts stored in OneDrive for Business, and the new eDiscovery challenges that those differences create.

Andreas Splittgerber and Aselle Ibraimova discuss the recent decisions by EU data protection authorities and courts in the EU that are affecting the use of analytics cookies on websites. They explore why website operators are being told to stop the use of analytics cookies and what can be done to overcome the issues.