The Global Legal Post publishes international comparative law guide to data protection

Co-edited by Bristow partners Mark Watts and Hannah Crowther, guide covers 35 jurisdictions

The Global Legal Post today launches the first Law Over Borders online comparative guide to data protection.

Co-edited by Bristows’ head of technology, Mark Watts, and data protection partner Hannah Crowther, the Data Protection guide features contributions by leading firms from 35 jurisdictions across the world.

It provides an insightful, country-by-country summary of key privacy obligations, helping readers to understand how data protection laws differ and interact in an increasingly connected world, thereby staying ahead of global requirements.

“The recognition of data as a valuable but also vulnerable ‘asset’ – assuming it’s appropriate to regard something arising out of a human right as an asset – has led to a wave of new legislation,” Watts and Crowther write in their introduction.

Read more at

https://www.globallegalpost.com/news/the-global-legal-post-launches-international-comparative-law-guide-to-data-protection-1042473738