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TECHNOLOGY TRANSACTIONS, OUTSOURCING, AND COMMERCIAL CONTRACTS NEWS FOR LAWYERS AND SOURCING PROFESSIONALS

Morgan Lewis partners Ksenia Andreeva, Anastasia Dergacheva, Vasilisa Strizh, and Brian Zimbler and associate Anastasia Kiseleva contributed the chapter on Russia for the recently released Data Protection & Privacy 2020, the eighth edition of the Lexology Getting the Deal Through publication.

Lexology Getting The Deal Through provides international expert analysis in key areas of law, practice, and regulation for corporate counsel, cross-border legal practitioners, and company directors and officers. The publication addresses many of the most important data protection and data privacy laws in force or in preparation throughout the globe, with a discussion of the same key data protection and privacy questions with analysis from leading practitioners in each of the featured jurisdictions.

Topics addressed by the Morgan Lewis team with respect to Russia, and by other practitioners with respect to the other jurisdictions, include, among others:

  • Legislative framework
  • Data protection authority
  • Breaches penalties
  • Exempt sectors and institutions
  • Communications, marketing, and surveillance laws
  • Personally identifiable information (PII) formats subject to regulations
  • Covered uses of PII
  • Legitimate processing of PII
  • Data handling responsibilities of owners of PII
  • Security and breach notification obligations
  • Internal control requirements
  • Transfer and disclosure of PII
  • Rights of individuals
  • Recent updates and trends

You can check out our colleagues’ chapter on Russian data protection and privacy, then review the full publication.