Congress has approved a bill that would require companies of major importance to U.S. national interests to report if they were hacked or paid a ransom after a ransomware attack.
With the increasing popularity and growing application possibilities of NFTs, the question of legal regulation is also increasingly arising.
Following FINMA's initial categorisation of tokens and their assessment under financial market law in its guidance on initial coin offerings (ICOs), the EU also categorised them in a proposal for a regulation on markets in crypto-assets ("MiCA").
Daten als Währung - wie die EU Warenkaufrichtlinie und die EU Richtlinie über Digitale Inhalte und Dienstleistungen Datenschutz und Datennutzung vereinbaren sollen und welche Möglichkeiten sich daraus für die Schweiz ergeben.
On March 24, 2022, the ECJ ruled that a copy of a copyrighted work made for private purposes and stored in a cloud is subject to the "private copying" exception of the Copyright Directive 2001/29/EC.
The revised Swiss inheritance law will come into force on January 1, 2023.
When rights are infringed on the Internet, rights holders often face the problem of not being able to locate the person responsible. Instead, an obvious alternative is to take action against the operator of the platform on which the illegal content was posted in order to effectively stop the infringement.
A brief overview of the possibilities of recourse for entrepreneurs against their distribution partners
The European Data Protection Board (EDSA) issues annual guidelines on the implementation and handling of the GDPR. These guidelines are binding for all member states and serve to ensure the uniform application of data protection regulations throughout the European Union.
In diesem Jahr erfolgten mit dem „Gesetz für faire Verbraucherverträge“, der Umsetzung der „Digitale-Inhalte-Richtlinie“ und der „Warenkaufrichtlinie“ einige grundlegende Gesetzesänderungen im Verbraucherprivatrecht (BGB).
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Germany. On 5 April 2022, the Federal Ministry of Justice forwarded a draft for a Whistleblower Protection Act to the other ministries for voting. This marks the beginning of the implementation procedure of the so-called EU Whistleblower Directive, which has been overdue since 17 December 2021.
