Data Protection, Privacy & Cybersecurity

Expertise

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Chambers & Partners

Data Protection, Privacy & Cybersecurity

We fully understand the privacy and cybersecurity concerns affecting our clients' businesses and believe in forging close-knit relationships: we know sharing our experience and skills to develop the internal skills of our clients empowers efficient compliance strategies that bring strong dividends to the clients' businesses.

We currently advise an increasing number of private and public entities in Portugal and other jurisdictions, particularly in Portuguese-speaking countries, in all matters concerning Privacy, Data Protection & Cybersecurity issues.

We aim to deliver legal advice with significant added value across the various sectors - banking and finance, insurance, health, telecommunications and media, information technology, e-commerce, infrastructure among others.

Know-how

  • individual compliance programs
  • legal advice on business development and launching of new technologies, products, services and/or platforms
  • assessment of technical and technological solutions, from a data protection and cybersecurity point of view, including cloud computing and geolocation
  • negotiation of procurement procedures and definition of public policies regarding privacy, cybersecurity and critical infrastructure
  • implementation of whistleblowing, hotline and due diligence procedures under the scope of the Foreign Corrupt Practices Act, the Dodd-Frank Wall Street Reform and Consumer Protection Act and the Foreign Account Tax Compliance Act
  • assessment of CRM projects, marketing campaigns and client fidelity programs
  • legal advice on international data transfer projects
  • setting up of rules and proceedings concerning data management in HR, recruitment and healthcare services in the workplace
  • definition of internal policies concerning processing of personal data and data retention
  • drafting contracts and specific clauses relating to data processing, definition of responsibilities and compliance, among others
  • legal advice on drafting of legislation regarding data protection and transposition of European Directives
  • prevention plans and procedures handbooks in case of incident/cyberattack
  • legal advice in response to an incident/cyberattack (breach response), including cybercrime
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