Is the GDPR enforceable against US companies? My article is published in the German Paper periodical PinG Privacy in Germany Datenschutz und Compliance, see the enclosed excerpt form the magazine.PinG_2021-04_Foyen_Teaser
Siits is a three year research and development project aimed at developing knowledge, methods, services and tools to secure that the transport systems of the future can be safe, efficient and green. In order to do that we must understand and manage vulnerabilities and risks, both when we build and when we operate the systems. [...]
Det er interessant og lærerikt å bidra med juridisk spisskompetanse inn i prosjekt Siits, for en nærmere vurdering av regulatoriske rammebetingelser og behov for endringer, risiko og ansvar, rettigheter til data samlet inn av sensorer mv. (IoT), og en rekke andre juridiske problemstillinger som slike systemer reiser.Prosjektet er tre-årig og følger denne prosjektbeskrivelsen:Transport og mobilitet [...]
Legal500's 2021 ranking of lawyers and lawfirms has been published. Once again I have the pleasure of being identified as a "leading individual" in the TMT sector (Technology, Media and Telecoms). https://www.legal500.com/c/norway/tmt/Having left Advokatfirmaet Føyen Torkildsen as from 1st January 2021, i continue assisting clients in the TMT sector and with GDPR compliance as before, [...]
Av advokat Arve Føyen Høringsutkast – innføring av digitalytelsesdirektivet Justis- og beredskapsdepartementet har sendt utkast til ny lov om forbrukeres kjøp av digitale ytelser (Digitalytelsesloven) på høring. Høringsbrev av 3. desember 2020 har høringsfrist den 3. mars. Den foreslåtte digitalytelsesloven tar sikte på å gjennomføre digitalytelsesdirektivet (Europaparlamentets og rådets direktiv (EU) 2019/770, heretter omtalt [...]
In various documents published by the European Data Protection Board (EDPB) following the Schrems II judgement, they state that it should be borne in mind that even if the data is located and operated in Datacenters located in the EEA area, even providing access to data in those datacenters from a third country, for [...]
In its guidance following the Schrems II judgement, the EDPB has outlined a six step approach to ensure appropriate safeguards for the transfer of personal information to third countries (i.e. countries outside the EEA and without an adequacy decision). The third such step is particularly relevant to the issue of a so-called “risk-based approach” to [...]
The many businesses that have made contingency plans for their Data transfers to and from the United Kingdom may now start the new year taking a deep and relieved breath! The Norwegian Government on the last working day of last year (30.12.2020) issued a temporary secondary law which is very short and which simply states [...]
January 1 2021, after 37 years as lawyer and partner in Advokatfirmaet Føyen Torkildsen AS and its predecessors, I am starting a new venture as sole practitioner in Advokat Arve Føyen. It is of course with mixed feelings I leave behind a lawfirm where I have spent so much time on building one of [...]