PRACTICE GROUPS
Data, Information & Cyber Law
The Pangea DICL team is an international group of experienced and specialised lawyers dedicated to privacy, cybersecurity and open data issues. We support your digital transformation and guide you in the protection, use and defence of your immaterial assets from a legal perspective.
About DICL
The creation of the Data, Information & Cyber Law (DICL) Practice Group is a Pangea Net initiative to bring together the best experts in digital law from around the world. Initially named the « GDPR » Practice Group, in reference to the famous EU regulation that came into force on 25 May 2018, Pangea Net’s group of experts decided to broaden its spectrum to cover the entire field of digital law, namely the rules protecting personal data and privacy (Privacy), those relating to responsibility for content and intermediaries (Information), as well as those punishing network infringements; but also the legal aspects of emerging technologies such as Artificial Intelligence, Quantum Computing, Blockchain, Internet Of Things (IoT) or Biometrics (Cyber).
Our multi-jurisdictional experts approach draws on the familiarity of our specialists with their respective local laws and customs, combined with a geek-worthy curiosity and appetite for the latest technological developments and phenomena that we keenly share with clients in the form of legal insights & digests.
We provide professional and ready-to-implement advice because we have our finger on the pulse of the sector: we are active in the global IT ecosystem and stay sharp by contributing to the development of the of the sector in our respective countries and regions, as members of think tanks, policy institute and influential research institutes as well as lecturers at universities.
When you work with Pangea DICL, you get full access to a team of lawyers working in the one-stop shop style:
- one key point of contact who will pilot the project for you through the multi-jurisdictional jungle
- one end-product consolidating the various aspects of your query
- one monthly invoice in one currency, combining
the services rendered by our experts
Areas of expertise
Pangea DICL offers cross border strategic legal advice in relation with:
- Data protection and privacy
- e-reputation & personality rights
- Information technology
- Protection of secrets (professional secrecy, communication secrecy and trade secrets)
- Cyber-litigation (cybersecurity, cybercrime)
- Content liability & platforms
DICL news
DICL Practice Group – Newsletter 6 – January 2024
The number of data breaches continued to rise dramatically in 2023, more and more companies are placing cybersecurity at the top of their priority list.
In 2023, the average cost of a data breach has reached a record high (once more). In addition to those costs and reputational damage, companies should also be wary of the penalties that can be imposed.
In this edition of the newsletter of our Pangea DICL team, we focus on the consequential world of data protection, shedding light on noteworthy sanctions and rulings by data protection authorities regarding insufficient technical and organisational measures to ensure information security.
DICL Practice Group – Newsletter 5 – May 2023
It would be impossible to ignore the rise of AI over the past few months – with ChatGPT taking most of the headlines but facing competition from Google’s Bard and from Amazon and Facebook’s own AI offers.
With AI taking the headlines of the day it’s easy to forget about some of the other news stories that were (and may yet be) the next big thing, whether that be the continued evolution of the GDPR, the rise of the Metaverse or the implementation of new laws around digital services.
It’s a challenging time to be a data lawyer – with lots of potential distractions. In this issue we’ve picked up various of these ongoing themes, taking the perspective of different jurisdictions
DICL Practice Group – Newsletter 4 – May 2022
The 25 May 2022 marks the fourth anniversary of the European General Data Protection Regulation (GDPR) coming into force. In this newsletter, the Pangea DICL team reflects on key trends across 10 of jurisdictions (Poland, Ireland, Switzerland, Italy, Bulgaria, Czech Republic, Austria, Belgium, Germany and Croatia) in particular looking ahead to issues that are coming into focus (cookies, cloud services, video surveillance and services of facial recognition, etc.).