The Reed Smith Information Technology, Privacy & Data Security Group will be hosting an upcoming webinar "The Biggest Shake Up of European Data Protection Law in 20 Years: What Your Organisation Needs to Do to Comply with the General Data Protection Regulation" on June 7, 2016 at 11:00 a.m. ET, 16:00 p.m. BST and 17:00 p.m. CEST. Reed Smith presenters including London-based Kate Brimsted , Cynthia O'Donoghue and Philip Thomas; Munich-based Dr. Thomas Fischl; and Paris-based Daniel Kadar  will be discussing some of the key provisions of the General Data Protection Regulation (GDPR) which will come to fruition on May 25, 2018. The webinar will explore the following topics:

  • Jurisdictional scope of the General Data Protection Regulation ("GDPR")
  • Rights of individuals and consent
  • Processors under the GDPR
  • Accountability
  • Data transfers
  • Profiling and research
  • Regulators, investigations and sanctions

To register for the free webinar, please click here.

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