Revised «Certified Senders Alliance» Directive for Permissible Email Marketing
The goal of the Certified Senders Alliance (CSA) is to increase the quality of commercial e-mails. For this purpose, CSA regularly revises its "Directive for Permissible Email Marketing" for the EU area. Perica Grasarevic has listed the Swiss particularities from a practice-oriented perspective in a legal comparison starting in Chapter 6.3. The revised DPA, the UCA and the TCA serve as the legal basis.
New FDPA: Implementation and Practice at Law Firms
Implementation of the requirements of the new Swiss Data Protection Act in seven working steps. Here you will find Thomas Steiner's article on the topic, which appeared in Anwaltsrevue 10/2022. It offers guidelines and food for thought – not only for law firms.
Between Autonomy and Harmonisation – FDPA-GDPR
The new Swiss Federal Data Protection Act (FDPA) offers opportunities for pragmatic and target-oriented solutions. For example, the legislator has established information obligations that can be handled flexibly. Compared to the GDPR, the FDPA also permits more streamlined solutions for data processing agreements. Companies should use this leeway. They should not adopt the opinions developed on the GDPR without reflection. This applies even more for Swiss authorities and courts. It is what the legislator wanted. Thomas Steiner wrote a study on the topic and gave a presentation at the 16th EIZ conference on data protection. The presentation is available here. The study (in German) is available as an open access publication at DIKE Publishing.
New Swiss Data Protection Act
Thomas Steiner and co-panellist Pascale Schwerzmann discussed with the Swiss Informatics Society (SI) how IT professionals can contribute to operationalising compliance with the requirements of the new Swiss Federal Data Protection Act at SI’s EveningTalk of 20 October 2022. Here’s the presentation from Thomas Steiner’s keynote.