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    Özer Zivali

    Counsel, Lawyer

    Özer is a member of the Privacy Team and is specialized in privacy, data protection, data technologies and (cyber) security. He has extensive experience in effectively assisting multinationals in complex, high risk, and cross-border data related matters. This includes high impact data breaches, the development and implementation of innovative data technologies, enforcement by authorities and complex data sharing structures, and strategic advice on translating the requirements of the General Data Protection Regulation (GDPR) to the business needs of clients.

    Özer has also extensive experience in advising companies on other data protection related matters, such as negotiating data processing or other data protection related agreements, loyalty programs, profiling, compliance projects for customer and employee data, apps, web shops, and international transfers of personal data, including Binding Corporate Rules. Özer also has experience in IT contracting and outsourcing.

    Committed. Solution-oriented. Strategic.

    Özer is a member of the Dutch Association for Privacy Law (VPR) and the Netherlands Association for Information Technology and Law (NVvIR). Özer studied for a Bachelor’s degree in European Law School at Maastricht University. He went on to obtain a Master's degree in European Law School and a Master's degree in Dutch Law, specializing in commercial and corporate law, also from Maastricht University. 

    • Member of the Dutch Vereniging Privacyrecht Advocaten (VPR-A) (Association Privacy Law Lawyers)

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    Steps organisations need to take for international data transfers following the Schrems II ruling

    10 August 2020
    The historic decision of the Court of Justice of the European Union (Court) in Schrems II of 16 July 2020 has profound consequences on international data transfers.
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  • News

    New Standard Clauses for international data transfers: what you need to do

    16 June 2021
    Last update: 16 June 2021 Following the GDPR becoming applicable in May 2018 and the Court of Justice of the EU's ruling in Schrems II in July 2020, the long awaited new Standard Contractual Clauses (New SCCs) have finally been published. These New SCCs will come into effect on 27 June 2021. The prior SCCs were designed before the GDPR saw the light and, although they were upheld in the Schrems II case, the prior SCCs lacked in reliability and practicability. The New SCCs allow for more types of transfers of personal data using a modular approach, instead of the more rigid and limited scope of the prior SCCs.
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    Privacy in corona time

    25 March 2020
    Update 25 March This is an update of our article on the privacy aspects of the approach to the corona virus in connection with the publication of an update of the guidance issued by the Dutch Data Protection Authority (Autoriteit Persoonsgegevens), the European Data Protection Board (EDPB), and the more stringent measures in the fight against the corona virus announced by the Dutch government on 23 March 2020.
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    Privacy & Brexit: What privacy actions are needed?

    21 January 2020
    With its departure from the EU, the United Kingdom (England, Scotland, Wales and Northern Ireland) has become a 'third country' from a European privacy perspective. On 24 December 2020, the Brexit deal was concluded which has implications for the transfer and processing of personal data in the UK. Organisations that wish to (continue to) transfer or process personal data in the UK will need to conclude various privacy actions before 1 May 2021 (or 1 July 2021).
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    £99 million GDPR fine shows importance of proper data protection due diligence in M&A

    10 July 2019
    On 9 July 2019, the Information Commissioner's Office (the UK data protection authority; ICO) published its intention to fine Marriott International, Inc. (Marriott) around £99 million (approximately 0.5% of its global annual turnover in 2018) for infringements of the General Data Protection Regulation (GDPR) related to a data breach notified to the ICO in November 2018. This would be one of the highest fines under the GDPR to date, second only to the £183.39 million fine for British Airways. 
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