Data is not a four letter work: More more than two decades, the attorneys at ARTHUR have been assisting our clients with deals and matters relating to data, information and know how, such as for instance Confidential Information, (Big) Data Analytics, Personal Data Proction, Data Management, Privacy by Design and Cybersecurity.

Our firm has represented both sides of the Data, Information and Know-How flows and exchange and therefore understands the concerns and interests from either side.

ARTHUR has a 3D approach on data, as data itself is not a four letter word but a multi-story, semi-silo-ed pool of numerous data types that may interact with each other. Think about classified data, sensitive data, personal data, derived data, proprietary information, IPR, machine-readable data and encrypted data.

Human Factor: At ARTHUR we never forget the human factor, including individual, organisational or other sociological sides of the use and non-use of data, processes, documents and systems. This, as human ignorance or error will remain the biggest issue in privacy and security. Being forewarned is being forearmed.

From Inventors to Personal Data Protection to Data Analytics: For example, we help inventors, technology companies and laboratories to control, protect, exchange and manage their information flows (see Licensing Services section). Additionally, we assist more than 10 hospitals with controlling, protecting and managing their personal data. On the other side, we also advise social media clients with issues pertaining to (Big) Data Analytics, e-Privacy, Privacy by Design, Cookies, and Privacy Level Agreements (PLA).

Cloud Architects Alliance: Arthur’s Legal is part of the expert panel of the Cloud Architect Alliance conference, and continues to supporting and lecturing several governmental of departments about cloud computing.

Privacy Level Agreement (PLA): ARTHUR is a member of and contributor in the PLA Working Group of CSA, a team of data protection law processional familiar with cloud services (including several national Data Protection Authorities). The current deliverable that the WG has been working on is PLA v2 (to be make publicly available soon), which helps companies and organisations with a comprehensive framework on mandatory privacy laws and regulations in the 28 Member States of the EU, and provides them with a tool to evaluate achieving EU wide data protection. The level of privacy compliance is key; being 100% compliant in all cases is not.

Netherlands

ARTHUR has been supporting and advising governments for many years in complex tenders, particularly in the fields of automation, IT, high tech and cloud computing.

In addition, ARTHUR assists public authorities with its expertise and hands-on approach in areas such as digital sovereignty, digital agendas, transformation programs, cloud computing, data access, privacy, data management & governance, and service level objectives.

National government, ministries, provinces, municipalities, water boards and other public sector organizations are most welcome to draw on the high-quality yet practical expertise of our ARTHUR colleagues.

European Committee & International

ARTHUR is an established expert in areas including cloud computing, cybersecurity, data governance, digital sovereignty, and the broader Legal Life Cycle of IT and high-tech projects. This covers system integration, robotics, biometrics, Internet of Things (IoT), xaaS and other IT services, IT development, ERP projects, tenders, negotiations, and escalations.

ARTHUR assists the European Committee for example DG CONNECT and DG JUST and related bodies on digital sovereignty and other state-of-the-art topics that are key to the digital future of the EU, its member states and residents.

As official member of the EC Cloud Select Industry Group on B2B cloud computing & SLA’s (C-SIG SLA), ARTHUR was invited by DG CONNECT to join the select Drafting Group (alongside CSA, IBM, Microsoft & Telecom Italia), resulting in the EC Cloud SLA Standardisation Guidelines. These guidelines have since been discussed extensively with major cloud providers and published by Commissioners Kroes and Reding.

ARTHUR continues to actively support the European Committee, its related bodies, and governments at national and local level with their digital agendas and sovereignty strategies.