Our data and privacy law services include:
- Advising on the Swiss Federal Act on Data Protection (FADP) and potential and upcoming amendments, cantonal data protection law, the EU GDPR, ePrivacy legislation, special laws (Human Trials Act, Banking Act, etc.)
- Compliance programs for the protection of data and confidential information
- Assistance with data subject rights issues and customer inquiries
- Data protection contracts (general processing contracts, data export contracts, corporate agreements)
- Internet data regulation (cookies, tracking, profiling)
- Data security, cybercrime, access by foreign authorities (US CLOUD Act)
- Design of data protection declarations, guidelines, consents, etc.
- Proceedings before the Federal Data Protection and Information Commissioner (FDPIC)
- Dealings with foreign data protection authorities
- Assertion of and rejection of applications according to the public governmental transparency (Public Governmental Transparency Act, cantonal law)
- Litigation and litigation-related advice
- Data and confidentiality-related criminal cases
- Risk assessments (proprietary method employed for cloud projects)
- Compliance assessment of business models and products
- Data protection impact assessments
- Investigation into data protection issues
- Due Diligence in transactions under data law
- Emergency assistance (such as with domestic and international data breach notifications)
- Workshops, presentations and training seminars
- Expert opinions, second opinions – particularly on controversial political projects
- Lobbying and advising on legislation