Olivia Boccali

The new Swiss Data Protection Act has been in force since 1 September 2023, without a transition period. We will show you the most important takeaways once again.

The Digital Services Act passed last year is already relevant for so called "very large online platforms and search engines" since 25 August 2023. These services already need to comply with all new obligations under the act.

The new stock corporation law will come into force in Switzerland on January 1, 2023. More flexible organizational and capital regulations apply to corporations, such as the introduction of the capital band or the virtual General Meeting.

On March 24, 2022, the ECJ ruled that a copy of a copyrighted work made for private purposes and stored in a cloud is subject to the "private copying" exception of the Copyright Directive 2001/29/EC.

The Federal Office of Justice announced on 3 March 2022 that the revised Data Protection Act will not enter into force until September 1st 2023. The Federal Council's formal decision will be made later this year.

After the Federal Supreme Court did not intervene in the action brought by the Confederation or the State Secretariat for Economic Affairs (SECO) in the Viagogo I ruling of December 1st 2020, it now partially upheld the action brought by Circus Knie in the Viagogo II ruling of October 27th 2021 and qualified various practices of the controversial ticket broker Viagogo as unfair.

After the Austrian data protection authority dsb concluded at the end of last year that the use of Google Analytics is illegal, the French data protection authority CNIL has now come to the same conclusion.

What legal framework conditions do Swiss financial institutions have to consider from a national and European perspective when using cloud service providers and what requirements does this result in for contract design?

The Federal Data Protection and Information Commissioner (FDPIC) has published in its new guidance how to proceed with data transfer of personal data abroad.