The 8th Annual Sedona Conference International Programme on Cross-Border Discovery and Data Protection Laws will take place in Berlin on 7 to 8 June 2016. Applications are now being accepted for attendance at this event which has even more relevance in 2016 than it has had in previous years.
Last year, the Sedona Conference Working Group 6 (WG6) met in Hong Kong, on the entirely correct basis that the widening of data protection laws in the several jurisdictions which make up the Asia-Pacific region was of increasing importance to those with commercial and legal interests in the region.
This year, the attention rightly comes back to the EU, with new legislation, the Schrems decision invalidating Safe Harbour, Safe Harbour’s proposed successor the EU-US Privacy Shield, the Microsoft Dublin case and other developments bringing this subject to the top of every agenda.