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Meera Rolaz is an associate at Baker McKenzie's Antitrust, EU & Trade Law and Compliance & Investigations Practice Groups in Zurich. She is also part of the Data & Technology team. After graduating from Oxford University with a Bachelor of Arts and a Master degree, she completed her LLB at the London University of Law and qualified as a UK solicitor in 2016. She worked over 7 years at Baker McKenzie in London and has spent time in the Amsterdam office before joining Baker McKenzie Zurich in 2022. Meera is bilingual in French and English.
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Switzerland: New obligation to report cyber incidents

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The Federal Information Security Act (ISA), which only entered into force on 1 January 2024, is already being amended with an obligation to report cyberattacks for operators of critical infrastructures. On 18 January 2024, the deadline expired for challenging the amendment by way of a public referendum. This means that the amended version will become law, with the new obligation to report cyberattacks expected to come into force in 2025, although an exact date has not yet been set.

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Switzerland: The revised Data Protection Act – need for action for employers?

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The revised Data Protection Act (nDPA) and the revised Data Protection Ordinance (nDPO) will enter into force on 1 September 2023. The revised Swiss data protection law is “a GDPR-like” legislation and provides for certain (new) obligations not contained in the current data protection law.
In an employment relationship, an employer inevitably processes employees’ personal data for various purposes. This client alert aims to inform employers about their data privacy obligations under the new data protection law and provides an opportunity to test data protection compliance.

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Switzerland: Following the global trend – To introduce foreign investment review – More than just mimicking?

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After pressure from Parliament, the Swiss Federal Council has against its own intentions opened the consultation process on new legislation to screen foreign investments in future also in Switzerland and has published a draft investment control law (“Draft ICL”). By implementing foreign investment control mechanisms, Switzerland would follow the global trend towards stricter regulation of foreign investments. According to the Draft ICL, the new law would apply to acquisitions of domestic companies by foreign investors. The main objective is the aversion of possible threats to public order and national security resulting from acquisitions of domestic companies by foreign investors. The final aim is to create investment controls in a new and stand-alone federal law.