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Data Protection, Privacy and Security

In the digital era, where data and information are among an organization’s most valuable and potentially vulnerable assets, our lawyers can help you protect your data and avoid breaches. 

We help private and public sector clients to keep up with the fast-changing landscape of data protection laws, helping them understand and better manage the risk of serious data breaches

With data protection lawyers on-the-ground in Africa and working in jurisdictions around the world, we understand national issues and local concerns around privacy while maintaining contacts with regulators globally. This means we can provide sophisticated data management, data security and privacy law advice wherever you do business, with an integrated cross-border approach as required. 

Local presence, global reach: we work in 20 African countries, providing an unrivalled local presence and insights backed by one of the world’s biggest business law firms. Our global Africa team comprises more than 200 lawyers in Johannesburg, Casablanca, London, New York, Paris, Dubai, Perth, Hong Kong and Beijing. 

DLA Piper has been at the forefront of developing privacy, data security and data breach laws. This includes helping more than 100 multinationals to design and implement data privacy, protection and security programs, including audit and risk assessments, developing national/global policies, effective international data transfer strategies, negotiating cloud and other complex international data transfer agreements, and defending regulator and plaintiff’s class action bar enforcement actions. 

Key capabilities include: 

  • audits and data mapping
  • compliance programs and policies
  • data subject access and opposition rights
  • data security, data loss prevention and data breaches
  • online and mobile tracking and consumer protection regulation
  • e-discovery and investigations management
  • GDPR and its application outside the EU
  • global data transfer management in such areas as transfer agreements or BCRs
  • incident response planning and execution
  • advocacy and government liaison
  • supervisory authority relations: notifications, authorizations, DPO appointments
  • whistleblower hotlines, employee monitoring, suspect persons screening 

Please contact us to discuss how we can help you to achieve your objectives.