Webinar on Addressing Key GDPR Issues During COVID-19
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The COVID-19 outbreak has created unprecedented operational and legal challenges for businesses across the globe. As businesses continue to navigate uncertainties during the pandemic, they are turning to guidance issued by EU data protection authorities on a number of important privacy concerns. Join us on June 23, 2020, for an in-depth webinar on Addressing Key GDPR Issues During COVID-19 as we discuss some of these privacy concerns.

In this webinar, our featured speakers, Hunton Brussels lawyers David Dumont and Anna Pateraki, and Lisa Sotto, Chair of the Global Privacy and Cybersecurity Practice, will address key GDPR issues during the COVID-19 pandemic, including:

  • the limitations on processing employee and visitor data for health monitoring purposes;
  • the development of common standards for contact tracing apps;
  • crisis management priorities from a data protection perspective, including cybersecurity preparedness and safe teleworking measures; and
  • recommendations for maintaining a robust privacy program during the crisis.

Update: View the recording of this program.

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