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Alice Portnoy

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About Alice Portnoy

Alice Portnoy is a Senior Associate in Alston & Bird’s Brussels office and a member of the Privacy, Cyber & Data Strategy Team. Alice focuses her practice on technology and data privacy matters with experience counseling national and international companies across the media and entertainment, pharma, scientific research, education, nonprofit, and food and retail sectors.

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The EU Digital Omnibus: A European Data Law Shake-Up May Be Coming

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On November 19, the European Commission (EC) released its EU Digital Omnibus proposal – a 153-page document accompanied by an explanatory memorandum and a Staff Working Document. This proposal introduces amendments, deletions, and replacements to several cornerstone EU digital laws, including: The GDPR. The Data Act. The AI Act. The ePrivacy Directive. Other instruments such […]

Chilean Regulator Launches Public Consultation on New Cybersecurity Law

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On 16 September 2025, the Chilean Cybersecurity Agency (Agencia Nacional de Ciberseguridad, ‘ANCI’) launched a public consultation on its provisional list of companies that may be classified as ‘operators of vital importance’ (Operadores de Importancia Vital, ‘OVI’) under the recently enacted Chilean Cybersecurity Law (Ley Marco de Ciberseguridad No. 21.663, ‘LMC’). This list (available online […]

EU-wide Breach Notification Template On The Horizon

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                  Following their recent meeting in Finland, the EU Data Protection Authorities acting through the European Data Protection Board (EDPB) announced their intention to release new tools and an EU-wide data breach notification template to help companies comply with the requirements of the EU General Data Protection […]

Belgian Data Protection Authority Issues Updated Guidance on Direct Marketing Rules

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On March 10, 2025, the Belgian Data Protection Authority (BDPA) updated its 2020 guidance on the processing of personal data for direct marketing purposes (see the updated guidance here in French and in Dutch). The BDPA reviewed its original guidance to help companies from all sectors navigate applicable EU privacy and data protection law requirements […]

Chile Passes New Data Protection Law

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On 14 November, and after many years of negotiations, Chile adopted a new Data Protection Act (la Ley que regula la protección y el tratamiento de los datos personales y crea la Agencia de protección de datos personales). This new Data Protection Act (DPA) aims to provide Chile with an updated regulatory framework for the […]