GLOBAL DIGITAL LAWS: A RECIPE FOR INNOVATIVE COMPLIANCE
Read time: 3 minutes
When your professional diet consists of an alphabet soup of global digital laws - GDPR, CPRA, PIPL, LGPD - and a generous helping of cookies, the last thing you want is too many regulators stirring the pot in your compliance kitchen. What you need is a single, trustworthy cookbook: one that blends operational change, supply chain management, and technological measures into a digestible compliance strategy that allows you to innovate while keeping your data and digital practices palatable.
When your professional diet consists of an alphabet soup of global digital laws - GDPR, CPRA, PIPL, LGPD - and a generous helping of cookies, the last thing you want is too many regulators stirring the pot in your compliance kitchen. What you need is a single, trustworthy cookbook: one that blends operational change, supply chain management, and technological measures into a digestible compliance strategy that allows you to innovate while keeping your data and digital practices palatable.
Two dishes currently feature prominently on the global regulatory menu: user tracking and cloud data mobility. Each requires careful preparation to avoid a compliance kitchen disaster.
Two dishes currently feature prominently on the global regulatory menu: user tracking and cloud data mobility. Each requires careful preparation to avoid a compliance kitchen disaster.
Two dishes currently feature prominently on the global regulatory menu: user tracking and cloud data mobility. Each requires careful preparation to avoid a compliance kitchen disaster.
Users as the main ingredient: Trust, consent, and cookies
Ronald Reagan’s saying “trust but verify” will soon become a staple in the privacy pantry, especially when managing cookies and user consent. Companies are increasingly surprised, often too late to avoid costly regulatory indigestion and litigation demands, to discover that their websites are evading consent managers and serving up third-party cookies and tracking pixels without proper disclosure or consent. These technologies are the lifeblood of digital commerce, but global regulators and litigants are increasingly focused on how transparently and accurately cookies and related technologies are disclosed, how and when consent is obtained, and whether user choices are honored.
The cost of getting it wrong is rising fast, with regulators now forcing companies to cough up the crumbs by disgorging data collected without proper consent. To avoid serving up noncompliant fare, you need to ensure that what’s cooking behind the scenes matches what’s promised on the menu. That means:
- auditing adtech stacks and consent managers
- exploring contractual opportunities to limit third-party use of cookies
- accommodating the evolving regulatory and litigation landscape across key jurisdictions
Ronald Reagan’s saying “trust but verify” will soon become a staple in the privacy pantry, especially when managing cookies and user consent. Companies are increasingly surprised, often too late to avoid costly regulatory indigestion and litigation demands, to discover that their websites are evading consent managers and serving up third-party cookies and tracking pixels without proper disclosure or consent. These technologies are the lifeblood of digital commerce, but global regulators and litigants are increasingly focused on how transparently and accurately cookies and related technologies are disclosed, how and when consent is obtained, and whether user choices are honored.
The cost of getting it wrong is rising fast, with regulators now forcing companies to cough up the crumbs by disgorging data collected without proper consent. To avoid serving up noncompliant fare, you need to ensure that what’s cooking behind the scenes matches what’s promised on the menu. That means:
- auditing adtech stacks and consent managers
- exploring contractual opportunities to limit third-party use of cookies
- accommodating the evolving regulatory and litigation landscape across key jurisdictions
From secret sauce to shared recipes: The EU Data Act
Enacted on September 12, 2025, the EU Data Act is the latest addition to the global compliance cookbook. Its goal? To eliminate vendor lock-in and promote data sharing as well as seamless transitions between cloud and SaaS providers. Key ingredients of the Act include:
- developing processes that support expedited data migration and ensure timely transitions, as the Act prohibits technical, contractual, and organizational obstacles to switching
- facilitating data portability and interoperability, i.e., by implementing open APIs and standardized data formats
- modifying contracts between customers and vendors to permit termination with no more than two months’ notice
- SaaS vendors revising internal policies and governance frameworks to accommodate efficient customer offboarding and secure multi-cloud transfers
These changes require careful reconsideration of early termination clauses, revenue recognition models, and technical capabilities.
From secret sauce to shared recipes: The EU Data Act
Enacted on September 12, 2025, the EU Data Act is the latest addition to the global compliance cookbook. Its goal? To eliminate vendor lock-in and promote data sharing as well as seamless transitions between cloud and SaaS providers. Key ingredients of the Act include:
- developing processes that support expedited data migration and ensure timely transitions, as the Act prohibits technical, contractual, and organizational obstacles to switching
- facilitating data portability and interoperability, i.e., by implementing open APIs and standardized data formats
- modifying contracts between customers and vendors to permit termination with no more than two months’ notice
- SaaS vendors revising internal policies and governance frameworks to accommodate efficient customer offboarding and secure multi-cloud transfers
These changes require careful reconsideration of early termination clauses, revenue recognition models, and technical capabilities.
Key takeaways
Navigating global digital laws is about mastering a complex tasting menu by designing and incorporating compliance into your dishes from the outset. Having the right legal chefs, armed with a well-curated digital regulatory cookbook, can transform compliance from a cost of doing business into a competitive advantage, allowing you to serve innovation with confidence and stay ahead of the pack.
Key takeaways
Navigating global digital laws is about mastering a complex tasting menu by designing and incorporating compliance into your dishes from the outset. Having the right legal chefs, armed with a well-curated digital regulatory cookbook, can transform compliance from a cost of doing business into a competitive advantage, allowing you to serve innovation with confidence and stay ahead of the pack.
Authors
Related articles
Previous page
Next page
© Eversheds Sutherland. All rights reserved. Eversheds Sutherland is a global provider of legal and other services operating through various separate and distinct legal entities. Eversheds Sutherland is the name and brand under which the members of Eversheds Sutherland Limited (Eversheds Sutherland (International) LLP and Eversheds Sutherland (US) LLP) and their respective controlled, managed and affiliated firms and the members of Eversheds Sutherland (Europe) Limited (each an "Eversheds Sutherland Entity" and together the "Eversheds Sutherland Entities") provide legal or other services to clients around the world. Eversheds Sutherland Entities are constituted and regulated in accordance with relevant local regulatory and legal requirements and operate in accordance with their locally registered names. The use of the name Eversheds Sutherland, is for description purposes only and does not imply that the Eversheds Sutherland Entities are in a partnership or are part of a global LLP. The responsibility for the provision of services to the client is defined in the terms of engagement between the instructed firm and the client.
Connect with us:
© Eversheds Sutherland. All rights reserved. Eversheds Sutherland is a global provider of legal and other services operating through various separate and distinct legal entities. Eversheds Sutherland is the name and brand under which the members of Eversheds Sutherland Limited (Eversheds Sutherland (International) LLP and Eversheds Sutherland (US) LLP) and their respective controlled, managed and affiliated firms and the members of Eversheds Sutherland (Europe) Limited (each an "Eversheds Sutherland Entity" and together the "Eversheds Sutherland Entities") provide legal or other services to clients around the world. Eversheds Sutherland Entities are constituted and regulated in accordance with relevant local regulatory and legal requirements and operate in accordance with their locally registered names. The use of the name Eversheds Sutherland, is for description purposes only and does not imply that the Eversheds Sutherland Entities are in a partnership or are part of a global LLP. The responsibility for the provision of services to the client is defined in the terms of engagement between the instructed firm and the client.
Connect with us: