“Businesses must introduce new data privacy rules”

Magda Cocco, Privacy, Data Protection & Cibersecurity practice partner, and Sofia Ribeiro Branco, Litigation & Arbitration practice partner, are interviewed by Iberian Lawyer magazine on European data protection legislation.

In the article Magda Cocco states “Compliance is the one area we feel our clients want to be adaptive, aware and do everything they can do. We’re now seeing companies wanting advice in the very early stages of the design of new products and services ”.

Sofia Ribeiro Branco says that “With everything that has happened in the financial sector, compliance is still a sensitive issue in Portugal. While Portuguese criminal law doesn’t expressly mention the relevance of compliance, if a company shows evidence that it did everything it could to prevent the crime, the courts are beginning to accept it as an argument ”.