Gibson Dunn Presents: GDPR at 5

Gibson Dunn's podcast features Ahmed Baladi, Robert Spano, and Vivek Mohan discussing the interplay between AI and personal data processing. They explore the EU AI Act, US regulatory landscape, challenges for multinational companies, and harmonizing compliance efforts between AI Act and GDPR. The podcast also delves into balancing innovation with privacy rights, regulatory challenges, and the impact of AI on employment roles.

The Co-Chairs of our Privacy, Cybersecurity and Data Innovation Practice Group, Ahmed Baladi (Paris) and Alexander Southwell (New York), and partner Cassandra Gaedt-Sheckter (Palo Alto), discuss how GDPR has impacted U.S. laws and companies. They examine the contrasts between U.S. privacy laws and GDPR in Europe, provide an overview of enforcement actions in the U.S., particularly California, and review the challenges companies face when dealing with global data privacy laws.

Privacy, Cybersecurity and Data Innovation co-chair Ahmed Baladi discusses GDPR enforcement actions in Europe with practice partners Vera Lukic (Paris) and Joel Harrison (London). They review enforcement actions over the past five years and anticipate future trends, look at Brexit’s impact on the GDPR and on its application in the UK, and examine issues arising from the enforcement of the e-privacy directive, with its lack of a one-stop-shop mechanism.

Privacy, Cybersecurity and Data Innovation co-chairs Ahmed Baladi and Jane Horvath describe how GDPR has been a game-changer in the data privacy area and discuss the innovations and improvements introduced by the regulation, how challenging it was to implement globally, and the interaction between the GDPR and other privacy legislations around the globe.