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Data & Cybersecurity

Cybersecurity: Romania transposes the NIS2 Directive. What’s next?

February 2025 – Directive (EU) 2022/2555 (NIS2) aims to further strengthen the cyber resilience of the EU by requiring entities in various sectors to dial up their cybersecurity efforts. NIS2 replaces the former NIS1 Directive (EU) 2016/1148, expands...

Kinstellar announces the promotion of Martin Baraniak to Managing Associate in Bratislava

January 2025 – Kinstellar is delighted to announce the promotion of Martin Baraniak from our Bratislava office to Managing Associate effective 1 January 2025.

Ransomware attack on Slovakia’s Real Estate Register causes nationwide outage of all services and databases containing information on immovable property rights

January 2025 – On 5 January 2025, the Real Estate Register in the Slovak Republic (the “Register”) was subject to a ransomware cyberattack.

TMT Legal Update

October 2024 – Our TMT Legal Update provides insights from our law experts and aims to keep you regularly up to date with sector news, trends and legislation in the Central and Eastern Europe and Central Asia regions. This issue covers key updates from...

Tímea Bana, a leading TMT lawyer in Hungary, joins Kinstellar as Partner

October 2024 – Kinstellar is pleased to announce that Tímea Bana, a high-profile Technology, Media, and Telecommunications (TMT), Data Protection (DP) and Intellectual Property (IP) lawyer, has joined the firm’s Budapest office as a Partner and...

Kinstellar has successfully advised Edwards Lifesciences in the area of data protection

June 2024 – Kinstellar has recently provided expert legal advice to Edwards Lifesciences, a global leader in medical innovations for heart disease, as well as critical care and surgical monitoring, through a secondment arrangement, focusing on data...

The AI Act is adopted, what to do now?

March 2024 – On March 13th the EU Parliament adopted the AI Act, marking a significant milestone in shaping the region's AI landscape. The Act will be published in the Official Journal of the European Union, and 20 days after publication, the AI Act...

Google ends geofence warrants

February 2024 – Location data has become an integral part of everyday digital life, providing easier navigation through various digital tools, such as maps. Despite the importance of making navigation easier, the need to preserve data privacy, such...

Recent regulatory developments regarding the use of body cameras in Hungary

February 2024 – The use of body cameras by law enforcement (both police forces and local government) and private security services started almost two decades ago and has been becoming more and more ubiquitous globally.

Five years of GDPR: An overview of GDPR implementation in Romania

May 2023 – As May 2023 marks the fifth anniversary of the implementation of GDPR[1], we have prepared an overview of the five years of regulatory struggle in Romania since the regulation came into effect. By examining the value of the sanctions and...