Technology and digitalisation
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Ranking, Fisheries and Aquaculture, Financing, Capital Markets, Compliance and crisis management, Mergers and Acquisitions, Dispute Resolution, Restructuring and Insolvency, Shipping Offshore, Competition law, Contract and Construction, Employment Law, Renewable energy and infrastructure, Intellectual Property, Commercial Property, Tax Law, Technology and digitalisation
2023
Wikborg Rein top ranked in Chambers Europe 2023
We are very pleased to announce that we have also in 2023 been top ranked in Chambers Europe, an annual ranking guide for Europe's leading law firms.
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2022
3 – Digital Markets Act: Fairer digital markets
The European Union's regulation on contestable and fair markets in the digital sector, the Digital Markets Act ("DMA"), has entered into force in the EU. Today, there are a small number of very large online platforms globally that greatly influence the framework for innovation, consumer choice and competition in the digital markets. Certain large platforms therefore act as so-called gatekeepers. By establishing duties and prohibitions for such gatekeepers, the new rules seek to ensure fair competition in digital brands and to give users greater freedom of choice. The DMA also enables the European Commission to carry out market investigations and sanction non-compliance in ways heavily influenced by EU competition law enforcement.
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Sustainability, Shipping Offshore, Technology and digitalisation, Renewable energy and infrastructure, Ocean Industries, Employment Law, Litigation and Arbitration
2022
With One Ocean Expedition from Singapore to Jakarta: - An experience for life
The exotic trip on board Statsraad Lehmkuhl in the Southeast Asia will not be forgotten by Kamilla Hope Kleppenes and Ingrid Weltzien anytime soon. Read their travelogue and see the beautiful photos from their fantastic trip!
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2022
2 – Digital Services Act: A safer digital space
The European Union's new Digital Services Act aims to create a safer digital space for citizens and businesses. The regulation seeks to provide for greater democratic control and supervision of digital platforms, and to reduce the risk of manipulation, disinformation and illegal content.
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Data Protection, Employment Law, Technology and digitalisation
2022
New Guidelines and Recommendations on Data Protection at the Workplace
The Norwegian Data Protection Authority (Nw.: Datatilsynet) has recently published both updated guidelines on employees' whistleblowing and an interesting study on monitoring and control of employees' digital activities (both available only in Norwegian). Both these new initiatives relate to data protection at the workplace, and are relevant to all businesses.
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Technology and digitalisation, Intellectual Property, Data Protection
2022
1 - A Europe Fit for the Digital Age
The European Union has recently been active in terms of legislative developments relating to technology and digitalisation. News about Digital Services Act, Digital Markets Act, European Union's new Artificial Intelligence Act, Data Act and Data Governance Act are emerging frequently and there is a new development almost every week.
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Data Protection, Technology and digitalisation
2022
Credit Information Act: new rules for credit assessments and processing of personal data
This article provides an overview of key issues in the new Credit Information Act which businesses must be aware of to ensure compliance with the new regulations.
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Data Protection, Technology and digitalisation
2022
With a passion for data protection and privacy
As the new Director of the Data Protection Authority, Data Protection lawyer Line Coll would like the authority to provide a more practical advice and be perceived as more relevant to the business community. After 25 years as a lawyer, she will soon deal with a completely new part of her career.
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Data Protection, Technology and digitalisation
2022
Line Coll will be the new Director of the Data Protection Authority
Our Partner and dear colleague Line Coll will be the new Director-General of the Norwegian Data Protection Authority. We are very proud and will miss her a lot!
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Intellectual Property, Technology and digitalisation, International sanctions and export control
2022
Russian countermeasures on intellectual property rights
Russia has announced and implemented several countermeasures against so-called "unfriendly states". Some of these countermeasures involve intellectual property rights (IPR), meaning that entities of so-called "unfriendly states" now face countermeasures limiting the protection of their IPR in Russia. Entities of such states that do not anticipate continuing to do business in Russia can expect to see their intellectual property utilised in Russia without compensation.
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Ranking, Fisheries and Aquaculture, Financing, Capital Markets, Compliance and crisis management, Mergers and Acquisitions, Dispute Resolution, Restructuring and Insolvency, Shipping Offshore, Competition law, Contract and Construction, Employment Law, Renewable energy and infrastructure, Intellectual Property, Commercial Property, Tax Law, Technology and digitalisation
2022
Wikborg Rein top ranked in Chambers Europe 2022
We are very pleased to announce that we have also in 2022 taken another step up in Chambers Europe, an annual ranking guide for Europe's leading law firms.
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Intellectual Property, Technology and digitalisation
2022
Progress for the realisation of the Unified Patent Court
Recent developments bring the new Unified Patent Court (UPC) closer to reality. This means that companies doing business in the EU should start considering whether they want to engage with the new UPC system or not.
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Data Protection, Technology and digitalisation
2022
Transfer of Personal Data and the Use of Google Analytics: Austrian Data Protection Authority's Decision
Austrian Data Protection Authority decided that the use of Google Analytics violates the transfer rules under the GDPR.
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Asset Management, Financial Regulation, Mergers and Acquisitions, Company Law, Renewable energy and infrastructure, International sanctions and export control, Intellectual Property, Technology and digitalisation, Capital Markets
2021
New Partners in 2022
We are pleased to announce that Snorre Nordmo, Hedvig Bugge Reiersen, Lars Erik Lien, Charlie Pope and Lars Erik Steinkjer have been appointed partners in Wikborg Rein from 1 January 2022.
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Data Protection, Technology and digitalisation
2021
New Draft Decision's Potential Impact on GDPR's Strict Consent Rules
The Irish Data Protection Commissioner's new draft decision has received significant attention. The decision relates to the legal basis of processing under the GDPR and it is criticised by many for giving entities a by-pass from GDPR's strict rules. In this article, Wikborg Rein looks into the draft decision and evaluates what it might mean for the application of the GDPR in the future.
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Data Protection, Technology and digitalisation
2021
Facebook to Delete Personal Data of More Than One Billion Users
Last week, Facebook announced their decision to stop using the face recognition technology. Facebook's decision comes against the backdrop of intensifying concerns around data privacy and Facebook's practices, and it is expected to affect more than one billion users. Wikborg Rein reviews the details of Facebook's decision and its potential consequences in this brief article.
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Mergers and Acquisitions, Capital Markets, Employment Law, Technology and digitalisation
2021
Wikborg Rein has assisted on private placement in Elop
We have assisted Fearnley Securities and Pareto Securities in connection with a private placement of new shares in Elop AS.
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Technology and digitalisation, Intellectual Property
2021
New rules on holding back goods infringing intellectual property rights
Rights holders will get new simplified procedures to enforce their rights after changes to the Norwegian Customs Act recently entered into force. It will be easier to detain goods that infringe intellectual property rights.
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Data Protection, China, Technology and digitalisation
2021
New Chinese privacy law – PIPL
4 factors you need to be aware of when doing business in China.
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Sustainability, Ocean Industries, Technology and digitalisation, Renewable energy and infrastructure, Shipping Offshore
2020
Partner in the One Ocean Expedition
Wikborg Rein is proud to partner and fully support the United Nations Decade of Ocean Science for Sustainable Development in the project: The One Ocean Expedition.
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State aid and EU/EEA law, Intellectual Property, Competition law, Procurement, Data Protection, Technology and digitalisation
2020
New Partners
We have the pleasure of announcing that Gry Hvidsten, Hanna Beyer Olaussen and Hanne C. Zimmer are appointed new Partners in Wikborg Rein as of 1 January 2021.
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Data Protection, COVID-19, Technology and digitalisation
2020
COVID-19 and new IT solutions: Privacy in quarantine?
The corona virus is putting the health and social contemporary world in crisis. The spreading of the virus is very fast and the implementation of new IT solutions to manage both ascertained and potential corona contagions is under evaluation worldwide. The question is - how will the new technologies handle privacy of individuals?
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COVID-19, Technology and digitalisation, Data Protection
2020
COVID-19 and Data Protection
The Norwegian and three other European data protection supervisory authorities on employers' collection and disclosure of employee data.
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Technology and digitalisation, Intellectual Property
2019
Copyright protection of algorithms – impossible or just a question of definition?
Legal protection of algorithms has been subject of much debate over the years, and with the huge technological development, the topic is constantly gaining new relevance. Access to good and effective algorithms has become vital for companies that want to gain strong market positions, as giants like Google and Facebook use algorithms to generate customized content. The prevailing view among copyright lawyers has long been that algorithms are not protected by copyright because they are unprotected ideas behind computer programs. However, I think this is misleading and oversimplified.
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Data Protection, Technology and digitalisation
2019
GDPR, information security and the importance of carrying out "proper due diligence"
ICO issues statements of intention to fine British Airways and Marriott.
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Data Protection, Technology and digitalisation
2019
Administrative fines for breach of the privacy by design principle and of the duty to ensure information security in the GDPR
Two of Norway’s largest municipalities were found to be in breach of the General Data Protection Regulation (GDPR) in two separate and unrelated cases each of which involved the use of technology in the municipalities’ schools.
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Data Protection, Technology and digitalisation
2019
Google and Apple asked to provide better information on the use of personal data
A recent initiative co-ordinated by the Norwegian and Dutch consumer associations has asked Google and Apple to respectively provide better information to their users.
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Data Protection, Technology and digitalisation
2019
The UK prepares for Data Protection after Brexit: Two New Regulations
When the UK leaves the EU, the General Data Protection Regulation (GDPR) will no longer be directly applicable in the UK. Two new sets of regulations have therefore been recently promulgated by the British Parliament to retain, as much as possible, the status quo and are meant to come into effect upon the UK's withdrawal from the EU. Both sets of regulations were issued pursuant to the UK's European Union (Withdrawal) Act 2018.
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Data Protection, Technology and digitalisation
2019
Two recent decisions of the Norwegian Privacy Appeals Board
The Norwegian Data Protection Authority (NDPA) has a broad set of powers, including the power to deliver warnings, reprimands or impose fines on data controllers and processors for non-compliance with the new Personal Data Act and the GDPR. As the new Personal Data Act and the GDPR only recently came into force, there are not yet many decisions based on the new legal regime. However, some of the recent NDPA decisions were appealed to the Privacy Appeals Board (PAB) and the appeal decisions have referred to the new legislation. Two such recent decisions respectively concern the data subject's right to object to processing and the right to erasure.
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Technology and digitalisation, Data Protection
2019
List of processing operations where a DPIA is always required
The Norwegian Data Protection Authority has recently published a list of processing operations that shall always require a data protection impact assessment (DPIA) pursuant to article 35(4) of the General Data Protection Regulation (GDPR).
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Technology and digitalisation, Data Protection
2019
Controversial draft bill on the Norwegian Intelligence Service
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Data Protection, Technology and digitalisation
2018
Complaints against Google by consumer organisations for breach of GDPR
On 27th November 2018, the Norwegian Consumer Council and consumer organizations from six other European countries – the Netherlands, Sweden, Greece, Poland, Slovenia and the Czech Republic – each filed a complaint against Google with their respective data protection authority.
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Technology and digitalisation, Data Protection
2018
Identification and mapping of processing activities (Part 1)
With less than a year until the General Data Protection Regulation (GDPR) enters into application, many companies are investigating the extent to which they are compliant as well as identifying what tasks need to be performed to enable them to become compliant by then.
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Data Protection, Technology and digitalisation
2018
Implementing the GDPR in Norway
The General Data Protection Regulation (GDPR) starts to apply within the European Union (EU) from 25th May 2018. Since the GDPR is an EU regulation, it will have direct applicability and direct effect in all EU member states as from that date. Norway, however, is not an EU member state but a member of the European Economic Area (EEA) and a different procedure therefore applies before the GDPR can become part of Norwegian law.
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Data Protection, Technology and digitalisation
2018
Identification and mapping of processing activities (Part 2)
In the first part of this article, we examined the controller's obligation to keep records of processing activities pursuant to Article 30 of the GDPR. In this second part, we focus on the data processor's obligations to keep such records.
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Data Protection, Technology and digitalisation
2018
The WP29 Opinion 2/2017 on data processing at work
Article 29 Working Party (WP 29), consisting of data protection authorities from all EU and EEA states and the European DP Supervisor, has recently issued an Opinion 2/2017 on data processing at work ("the Opinion").
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Data Protection, Technology and digitalisation
2018
Fintech and Privacy
On 7th February 2018, the Norwegian Data Protection Authority ("DPA") published a report which examines the challenges that the revised Payment Services Directive (PSD2) pose for privacy.