Data transfer to third countries and cloud use by the City of Zurich
Switzerland's new data protection law will come into force on September 1st, 2023.

Switzerland's new data protection law will come into force on September 1st, 2023.
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").
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.
EU emissions trading serves as a central instrument of the European Union to reduce greenhouse gas emissions (such as CO2) in a sustainable and economically favourable way.
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.
People can hardly distinguish the deepfake from a real video. Deepfakes thus enable fraud or identity theft and violate privacy rights
What legal framework conditions do Swiss financial institutions have to consider from a national and European perspective when using cloud service providers and what requirements does this result in for contract design?
Switzerland wants to establish itself globally as a leading location in artificial intelligence ("AI"), but without creating a regulatory framework for this. In this regard, the Swiss government refers to the regulations in the revised Data Protection Act (nDSG). Meanwhile, the EU has done just that with its new regulation on AI - created a legal framework in which the requirements for transparency and accountability are clearly defined, not left to data protection, and violations are subject to heavy penalties.
The recording is now online!
The recording is now online!