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William RM
Long
Counsel
London
+44.20.7360.2061
+44.20.7626.7937 Fax
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WILLIAM LONG is counsel in the London office of Sidley Austin LLP. He advises international clients on a wide variety of social media, data protection, privacy, information security, e-commerce and other regulatory matters. Mr. Long has experience with EU and international social media, data protection and privacy projects particularly in the life sciences and financial services sectors, advising on social media regulation, cross-border data transfer, data security and other data protection issues. He is a regular speaker on social media, data protection and e-commerce matters.
Mr. Long is a co-founder of the Social Media Governance Forum, a networking group of companies involved in social media, and was previously in-house counsel to one of the world’s largest international financial services groups as their e-Commerce counsel dealing with e-commerce and data protection matters. He has been a member of a number of working groups in London and Europe looking at the EU regulation of e-Commerce and data protection and spent a year at the UK’s Financial Law Panel (established by the Bank of England), as assistant to the Chief Executive working on regulatory issues with online financial services. He also writes extensively for a number of journals including Journal of Medical Research Law & Policy, Data Protection Law & Policy, Journal of Electronic Business Law, Journal of eCommerce Law and Policy and E-Finance & Payments Law & Policy. English Solicitor.
MEMBERSHIPS, PRESENTATIONS & ARTICLES
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Co-founder of the Social Media Governance Forum
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Previous Member of the Centre for European Policy Studies Working Group on eCommerce Regulation
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Article “New International Guidelines on the Transfer of Personal Health Data” – Medical Research Law & Policy
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Article “Data Security breaches: the changing legal landscape” – E-Finance Law & Policy - October 2008
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Article “Data Security and payments: dynamic Phorm of development” – E-Finance Law & Policy - April 2009
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Article on “Pharmacovigilance and Data Protection” – Data Protection Law & Policy – December 2010
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Article on EU Implementation of New Website Cookie Law – Data Protection Law & Policy – August 2011
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Presenter at European Data Protection Summit, London, May 2010
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Chair on healthcare session at 23rd Annual International Privacy Laws & Business Conference at St John’s College, Cambridge, July 2010
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Presenter at Data Protection Compliance Conference, London, October 2010
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Presenter at Data Protection and Financial Services Workshop, London, November 2010
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Presenter at IAPP Europe Data Protection Congress, Paris, November 2010 on data security issues
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Presenter on data protection and social media at the 5th DataGuidance European Data Protection Intensive in London in May 2011
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Presenter on data protection and social media at the 24th Annual International Privacy Laws & Business Conference at St John’s College, Cambridge University in July 2011
