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It is more than a year now since the introduction of Europe’s new data privacy regime, the GDPR. There was a flurry of activity leading up to and following the launch date in May 2018, GDPR fell out of the headlines. Recent high profile penalty announcements running into the hundreds of millions have again highlighted the dangers of failure to comply. We consider some of the issues that are keeping business leaders and privacy regulators awake at night.

It is more than a year now since the introduction of Europe’s new data privacy regime, the GDPR. After a flurry of activity leading up to and following the launch date in May 2018, GDPR fell out of the headlines. Recent high profile penalty announcements running into the hundreds of millions have again highlighted the dangers of failure to comply. We consider some of the issues that are keeping business leaders and privacy regulators awake at night.

With little time remaining before the UK is due to leave the European Union, considerable uncertainty still remains about the shape of Brexit and the future for business. EU trade marks, Community designs (registered and unregistered), and EU designations of International trade marks and registered designs (referred to below as “EU Rights”) apply automatically across the whole EU.

Illegal streaming of live sporting events over the internet is not a new problem. But, given the rate of growth in this activity, sports broadcasters are fighting back.