The new Swiss Data Protection Act has been in force since 1 September 2023, without a transition period. We will show you the most important takeaways once again

The Digital Services Act passed last year is already relevant for so called "very large online platforms and search engines" since 25 August 2023. These services already need to comply with all new obligations under the act.

According to the parliamentary initiative of the Green Group of 15 June 2023, the nDSG should be amended in Art. 21bis nDSG.

On 16 June 2023, both the National Council and the Council of States passed the Notaries Digitisation Act with a majority.

Online booking platforms will be kept on a tight leash with the new Art. 8a UWG. As of December 1st 2022 parity clauses concerning the price, availability or conditions will be prohibited in contracts between online booking platforms and accomodation providers .

The new stock corporation law will come into force in Switzerland on January 1, 2023. More flexible organizational and capital regulations apply to corporations, such as the introduction of the capital band or the virtual general meeting.

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.

Am 16. Februar 2022 wurde die Vernehmlassung zur geplanten Teilrevision des Bundesgesetzes betreffend die Überwachung des Post- und Fernmeldeverkehrs (BÜPF, SR 780.1), durch den Bundesrat veranlasst. Bis zum 23. Mai 2022 können sich Interessierte zur vorgesehenen Teilrevision äussern.

NFTs have been on everyone's lips for some time now. More and more industries are trying to use NFTs as an additional source of income. Below, we look at the possible application of NFTs in the world of sport.

The Federal Office of Justice announced on 3 March 2022 that the revised Data Protection Act will not enter into force until September 1st 2023. The Federal Council's formal decision will be made later this year.

After the Federal Supreme Court did not intervene in the action brought by the Confederation or the State Secretariat for Economic Affairs (SECO) in the Viagogo I ruling of December 1st 2020, it now partially upheld the action brought by Circus Knie in the Viagogo II ruling of October 27th 2021 and qualified various practices of the controversial ticket broker Viagogo as unfair.

After the Austrian data protection authority dsb concluded at the end of last year that the use of Google Analytics is illegal, the French data protection authority CNIL has now come to the same conclusion.