Is ICO asking you to pay data protection registration fee?
Anna Petrushko and Oksana Zadniprovska prepared this material for those businesses that are data controllers in the UK.
March 26, 2024 1 min
Legal Guide for Startups: Incubation and Acceleration from a Boring Legal Angle
March 13, 2017 1 min
Civil claims in Ukraine for personal data protection
Captain Obvious is with you. We are pleased to bring to your attention an article on how Ukrainian courts do not understand personal data protection legislation.
February 29, 2024 2 min
“External compliance,” or your website = your face
(All characters are fictional, and any similarities are coincidental). - Good afternoon, we would like one GDPR compliance, please. - What do you need it for? - So that our EU customers like our website and don't ask our legal department any stupid questions :) Please make us all the banners and privacy policy. - Of course. But that's not GDPR compliance. It's just a tiny part of it. Let me explain.
January 21, 2026 1 min
What is the world of internal policies and assessments under the GDPR like?
How you treat personal data in your company is not just about what is public and visible to the human eye. It is also about how you manage internal processes for working with personal data, its movement, and security. For this purpose, there are internal policies and assessments, as well as special tools that help companies maintain control over data flow and other processes, ensuring that data is processed correctly. In this article, I will help you understand the main types of policies and assessments: what is mandatory, what is optional, where to start, and how to approach this process correctly.
October 10, 2025 1 min
Two Galyas, one market: what is happening between the Baluvana Galya and Galya Baluvana chains
Two Galyas. One market. No compromises? Restaurants versus semi-finished food – or the owner of Baluvana Galya is suing the owners of Galya Baluvana. What do these brands have in common besides their name? Our lawyer Alona Grebenchuk reviewed the well-known dispute between Ihor Sukhomlyn's restaurant chain and the popular semi-finished food franchise in her column for AIN.
July 18, 2025 1 min
Does training AI on other people’s works violate intellectual property rights?
When AI is trained on copyrighted works belonging to others, is this a violation or not? What if it is not even considered use of the work in the legal sense? Perhaps we simply have not yet had time to comprehend this new era? Mykhailo Yudin shared his thoughts on this in a column for Ekonomichna Pravda.
May 29, 2025 1 min
Scraping for training generative AI models. How participants on different sides of the process should interact
Generative models require large amounts of data for training. Depending on the needs, website scraping is often used to collect data.
April 30, 2025 1 min
What is data protection legislation, and when does it apply to your company?
Imagine yourself in the middle of a maze. Endless green walls, green grass under your feet, and you are all green as you search for a way out – that's how a company feels when it starts to navigate data protection legislation. To understand what your responsibilities are, you need to understand where those responsibilities are written.
April 28, 2025 1 min
RoPA: Why does everything start with a data flow map under GDPR?
Imagine that you are conducting an inventory (or perhaps an inventory and audit) of assets in a company: you can view the number of customers and active projects, count the physical access of employees to premises, or identify access to cloud storage or internal CRM systems, or you can inventory the number of laptops or software you have provided to your employees. In other words, there are different ways to bring order to operational issues. From a data management perspective, you will need to identify all processes, structure your data, and periodically add new cases to your database. This can be the start of your personal data audit history, which will likely be reflected in the form of a RoPA.
April 2, 2025 1 min
Why do Ukrainian companies need GDPR risk assessment?
The short answer: GDPR risk assessment is necessary to enter the European market wisely and with minimized risks under GDPR. But let’s start with the basics.
March 24, 2025 1 min
AI and personal data: advice from the European regulator EDPB
The hype surrounding AI continues unabated. Every developer/owner/investor (underline as appropriate) wants to integrate AI into their product or launch a new one that is “enhanced” by artificial intelligence.
March 19, 2025 1 min
How to use legitimate interest under the GDPR: recent clarifications from the regulator
Legitimate interest is one of the grounds for the lawful processing of personal data under the EU General Data Protection Regulation (GDPR). Companies have started to apply legitimate interest to almost all situations where they are interested in the outcome of such processing.
December 27, 2024 2 min
Protecting cultural heritage in a new way or how the Ministry of Culture can contribute to the destruction of valuable architecture
The destruction of the Zelenskyi Estate, the destruction of the facade of the Flowers of Ukraine, the illegal reorganization of the Dovzhenko Center — we hear more and more about terrible trends in the protection of Ukraine’s cultural heritage.
October 9, 2024 2 min
Online stores will have to be rewritten. What will the EU Accessibility Directive bring?
Every industry has a set of requirements or recommendations for making something accessible. For the Internet, this is the WGAG.
September 9, 2024 2 min
ICLG Guide on Data Protection in Ukraine 2024 is published
Our partner Oksana Zadniprovska has contributed to the Data Protection Laws and Regulations Report (2024) in part of Ukraine.
September 3, 2024 1 min
Language law for business owners
Recall the requirements imposed on companies by the law “On Ensuring the Functioning of the Ukrainian Language as the State Language”
August 16, 2024 1 min
Legal regulation of AI in Ukraine
Yesterday, the Ministry of Digital Transformation published a White Paper on AI regulation in Ukraine. And it just so happened that our Oksana Zadniprovska was talking about AI with Alessandro di Matia from Privacy Rules. There's even a video of it. It's in English, but that's not a problem, right?
June 27, 2024 1 min
Employee reservation – a brief overview of everything that interests business
Let's talk a little bit about how to reserve employees liable for military service in Ukraine. Spoiler alert: it's not easy. But you already knew that without us.
June 25, 2024 1 min
Open personal data: how to work with it
Person 5 stretched with satisfaction: their data is safe. In the register of court decisions, they are only Person 5. But they didn’t know that the day after tomorrow, skillful marketers would get to another open registry and flood their inbox with paper spam. After all, it’s open data, so it’s okay. Why is it not? Read this article for AIN about open data and how to use it without violating the privacy of Ukrainians.
May 17, 2024 2 min
Can a serviceman be engaged in business activity?
Mykhailo Yudin, a partner at Axon Partners and a current serviceman of the Armed Forces of Ukraine, analyzed whether a serviceman can be engaged in business activity, whether as a private entrepreneur or as a member of the management of an LLC. Based on Forbes' materials.
March 13, 2024 1 min
How Taylor Swift protects her intellectual property
Taylor Swift was the first artist to receive seven Grammy nominations for Song of the Year, had eight sold-out shows at the UK`s biggest arena, Wembley Stadium, and became the most popular artist in the history of Spotify and Apple Music. In addition to her musical talent, Taylor has an outstanding business mindset. One of the pillars of her unprecedented success is a well-thought-out strategy for protecting intellectual property. Mariia Yesypovych and Mykhailo Yudin from Axon Partners law firm explored how the world’s biggest pop star protects various components of her creativity, brand, and media identity. Publication for Slukh.
March 13, 2024 2 min
Professional mentoring program in Kyiv-Mohyla Academy: Axon in action
When we applied for the professional mentoring program of the Faculty of Law of the National University of Kyiv-Mohyla Academy, we thought: oh, a great chance to get cool interns from a cool university, to teach the younger generation and learn from them. And what’s nice is that the university encourages independent communication between mentors and mentees, with minimal interference. Everything is adult. That's how we found the perfect match and created a kind of educational Tinder.
March 8, 2024 1 min