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Responding to the GDPR Enforcement Regime

How should your company respond to the GDPR enforcement regime?

As part of GDR Insights 2020, FRA Founding Partner Frances McLeod and Partner Simon Taylor, give their views on the rapidly changing data environment, and how companies should respond to the GDPR enforcement regime. Read the full chapter now and see how you can navigate this complex and everchanging landscape.

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What are the key issues and next steps you need to know about GDPR?

In this article, we will cover a broad range of GDPR issues and offer next-steps on how your business should respond to this complex environment.

  • Overview of the data landscape
  • Fines and penalties under the GDPR
  • Recent examples of regulatory and public scrutiny
  • Investigatory response to the altered landscape
  • Impact of the GDPR on a forensic examination or litigation
  • Managing conflicts of law in a post-GDPR global investigation
  • Misuse of data
  • The importance of a meaningful compliance program and remediation plan
  • Developing and executing a remediation plan

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How can we help you navigate the complex GDPR landscape?

With growing public and political will supporting aggressive regulatory and criminal enforcement, it is important to recognize the value in conducting forensic investigations both to provide affirmative evidence that any breach or misuse is anomalous and nonsystemic and to set foundations stones for remediation plans and compliance programs.  Get in touch to see how we can help you navigate this complex landscape.

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FRA Insight: A Change In Attitudes To Digital Data

Reactions inspired by the Snowden leaks continue to heat up, the most recent being Roussef’s plans set up Brazil’s own secure email servers and to introduce legislation that would require all online information concerning Brazilians to be stored physically in Brazil. What is clear is that there is a significant gulf between the US attitude towards data flows and data protection and that of the rest of the world. There have long been conflicts of law but with the importance of the Internet, the promise (and threat) of Big Data and the proliferation of data volumes, life is just going to get more complicated, particularly if you are a corporate operating internationally.

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Where does bribery legislation bite?

Originally published in Oil & Gas Financial Journal, September 2013.

The article, cowritten by Toby Duthie and Derek Patterson at FRA, and David Lorello at Covington & Burling LLP, explores the impact of Anti-Bribery and Corruption (ABC) legislation on the extractive sector. It highlights key ABC risk areas at an operational level and in terms of business development. In addition, the article gives advice on best ABC practice and provides details of the financial, legal and reputational costs of failing to tackle bribery and corruption within a company.

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Where And How Hard Does Bribery Legislation Bite The Extractive Sector?

Originally published in Latin Corporate-

Anti-bribery and corruption (ABC) legislation is similar across many jurisdictions. The prohibitions are deliberately broad and typically follow standards set forth in the OECD Anti-Bribery Convention, which in turn was largely modelled on the U.S. Foreign Corrupt Practices Act (FCPA).

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Keeping to the Rules?

Published in July 2013 and authored by Forensic Risk Alliance Partner, David Lawler, “Keeping to the Rules,” is an article that details what accounting records should be kept to satisfy international bribery regulations. It was first published in Accountancy.

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