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ERA - Whistleblowers’ Protection in Europe

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A hybrid seminar to bring legal practitioners up-to-date on the latest regulatory developments, legislative initiatives, and case law on whistleblowing. Alja Poler De Zwart and Dan Alam spoke on "Why centrally run hotlines protect whistleblowers better than locally run hotlines".

A hybrid seminar to bring legal practitioners up-to-date on the latest regulatory developments, legislative initiatives, and case law on whistleblowing. Alja Poler De Zwart and Dan Alam spoke on "Why centrally run hotlines protect whistleblowers better than locally run hotlines".<hr>

ERA - Whistleblowers’ Protection in Europe

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Clients seek Alja for her no-nonsense approach to resolving complex local legal issues efficiently while providing strong representation for their most important privacy, whistleblowing, and investigatory matters. Alja is the go-to counsel for EU whistleblowing laws and leads strategy for the firms’ advisory efforts for compliance with whistleblowing rules and procedures globally. She founded and is one of the main contributors to MoFo's <a href="https://www.mofo.com/gdpr-european-privacy/whistleblowing">Whistleblowing Resource Center</a>, which is relied upon by many organizations to support their compliance efforts, and is also leveraged by Thomson Reuters Practical Law to provide <a href="https://uk.practicallaw.thomsonreuters.com/w-034-1767?transitionType=Default&contextData=(sc.Default)&firstPage=true">updates</a> to its subscribers. She regularly assists clients with internal investigations and their dealings with regulators and provides practical solutions that enable organizations’ overall compliance while achieving cost-efficient and business-friendly results.Alja advises European-, Asian-, Latin American-, U.S.- and Canadian-based B2B and B2C organizations from a broad range of industry sectors including technology, telecommunications, insurance, advertising, retail, consumer products, entertainment, pharmaceuticals, and financial services. She works regularly with the firm’s trusted local counsel worldwide, enabling her clients to receive high-quality advice in any jurisdiction.Alja also advises clients on important privacy matters with regard to employee monitoring, e-discovery, international data transfers and data sharing, M&A projects, vendor due diligence and contracting, profiling, BYOD/BYOC, AI, social media use, marketing and advertising, use of cookies and similar technologies, use of workplace surveillance tools (e.g., CCTV, dashcams), use of medical data of employees, job applicant background check processes, and other workplace and consumer related privacy and data protection matters.Prior to joining Morrison Foerster, Alja worked on the Information, Communication & Technology team at a renowned Dutch law firm in Amsterdam, and at the <a href="https://ec.europa.eu/solvit/contact/" target="_blank">EU SOLVIT center</a> in The Hague where she advised businesses on difficulties caused by failure to implement or correctly interpret EU law by public authorities.Alja is a Dutch qualified lawyer and a member of the Amsterdam and Brussels Bars. She speaks fluent English and Dutch, is a native speaker of Slovenian, and has a working knowledge of Croatian, Serbian, and German languages.

Alja Poler De Zwart

Partner

Dan Alam is a member of Morrison Foerster’s Global Privacy + Data Security and Employment + Labor Groups, based in London.A dynamic lawyer and pragmatic problem solver, Dan supports clients on their contentious, advisory and transaction-related data protection and employment issues on a UK, pan-European and global level. He is described by Legal 500 UK as advising on the “intersection of employment and data protection law”.He regularly works on multijurisdictional projects, and advises clients in a variety of sectors, such as those operating in the technology, media, insurance, pharmaceutical, hospitality, retail, shipping and logistics industries.Dan has a wide breadth of experience advising on a range of complex matters, such as supporting clients with deploying artificial intelligence (AI) systems, responding to data security incidents and creating comprehensive whistleblowing compliance programs. Dan also regularly assists clients with internal investigations and their dealings with data protection regulators.Dan is a founding member and a main contributor to MoFo’s <a href="/gdpr-european-privacy/whistleblowing" target="_self">Whistleblowing Resource Center</a>, which is relied upon by many organizations to support their compliance efforts, and is also leveraged by Thomson Reuters Practical Law to provide <a href="https://uk.practicallaw.thomsonreuters.com/w-034-1767?transitionType=Default&contextData=(sc.Default)&firstPage=true" target="_blank">updates</a> to its subscribers. Dan has been closely monitoring the implementation of the European Union (EU) Whistleblowing Directive since its inception. He has presented on and advised clients on the implementation of the Whistleblowing Directive across the EU, and regularly provides practical advice to clients on the new requirements and how to incorporate them into their global whistleblowing and investigations processes. Examples of Dan’s other experience include:<ul><li>Advising technology companies and a global logistics and delivery company on the launch of new products, including those involving AI.</li><li>Providing support to clients on how to comply with cross-border data transfer and data localization restrictions.</li><li>Helping to respond to regulatory requests from the UK Information Commissioner's Office (ICO) and other data protection regulators, including in relation to direct marketing, the collection and use of children’s data and the ICO’s Children’s Code and data security incidents.</li><li>Advising on age assurance mechanisms and obligations under the UK Online Safety Act.</li><li>Defending clients against claims for compensation in respect of alleged breaches of privacy and data protection law.</li><li>Negotiating data processing agreements on behalf of clients acting as controllers and/or processors.</li><li>Providing specialist data protection and employment support on various public and private transactions, with particular experience advising on the acquisition of technology and AI companies.</li><li>Guiding employers on their employee monitoring practices and the collection of diversity and inclusion data.</li><li>Representing the administrators of a technology company in respect of an asset sale of its business, advising on collective redundancy and Transfer of Undertakings (TUPE) issues.</li><li>Participating in industry working groups to respond to government consultations on employee data protection issues.</li></ul>Before joining Morrison Foerster, Dan spent two months working at the Irish Data Protection Commission.Dan actively contributes to the firm’s pro bono initiatives by working for a variety of charities and NGOs. In addition to assisting organisations on data protection and employment matters, he also advises on social security and statelessness issues. Dan was part of the collaboration between Asylum Aid and various law firms that was recognized with the “Excellence in Pro Bono” Award by the Law Society of England and Wales in 2021 for work addressing the issue of statelessness in the United Kingdom. Dan is also co-chair of the Morrison Foerster London ethnic minority network – MoFo Together.Dan is qualified as a solicitor in England and Wales.

Dan Alam

Associate

ERA - Whistleblowers’ Protection in Europe

10 Mar 2022 12:00 PM - 1:00 PM PST