{"id":2568,"date":"2025-11-13T15:03:22","date_gmt":"2025-11-13T14:03:22","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/blog.eprivacy.eu\/?p=2568"},"modified":"2025-11-27T11:29:45","modified_gmt":"2025-11-27T10:29:45","slug":"the-new-eu-data-act-what-saas-and-iot-businesses-need-to-do-now","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/blog.eprivacy.eu\/?p=2568","title":{"rendered":"The new EU Data Act: What SaaS and IoT Businesses need to do now"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p>The new EU&nbsp;Data&nbsp;Act has been of increasing concern for our clients that are active in the SaaS and connected products industries since it entered into force in mid-September. Notably, the EU Data Act is applicable in parallel to the GDPR, and also applies to non-personal data (so-called \u2018machine\u2019 or \u2018product\u2019 data).<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>This new EU regulation brings two major implications for the industry:<\/p>\n\n\n\n<ul><li>Ban on long-term contracts: Typical contract&nbsp;terms of 12 to 24 months will be prohibited, giving all customers a 60-day right to terminate \u2013 even for B2B contracts.<\/li><\/ul>\n\n\n\n<ul><li>Mandatory migration support: Businesses must&nbsp;actively support the migration to another provider.<\/li><\/ul>\n\n\n\n<p>Businesses that do not implement these requirements in their contracts may be subject to legal action from competitors and risk extremely heavy fines, comparable to the well-known sanctions under EU&nbsp;data protection law.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Our webinar will cover how SaaS and IoT businesses need to adapt their contracts as well as their business models. It will also explain the criteria used to determine whether the&nbsp;Data&nbsp;Act&nbsp;applies to your business at all, including exceptions for SMEs.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>In addition to discussing new compliance risks, the&nbsp;webinar will also explain the opportunities for SaaS businesses under the Data&nbsp;Act&nbsp;in relation to their own cloud infrastructure providers.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p><strong>When:<\/strong>&nbsp;Thursday 4 December 2025, 2.00-3.00pm<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p><strong>Registration: <\/strong><a href=\"https:\/\/events.teams.microsoft.com\/event\/558fe394-794e-4ccc-bc67-c8be836c4053@ef9db3d4-9134-416e-aace-116d440d493a\">teams<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n<p><strong>Speaker<\/strong>: Dr. Lukas Mezger, Rechtsanwalt und Partner, Unverzagt Rechtsanw\u00e4lte <\/p>\n\n\n\n<p><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The new EU&nbsp;Data&nbsp;Act has been of increasing concern for our clients that are active in the SaaS and connected products industries since<\/p>\n<p class=\"link-more\"><a class=\"myButt \" href=\"https:\/\/blog.eprivacy.eu\/?p=2568\">Read More<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":2607,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[26],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/blog.eprivacy.eu\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2568"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/blog.eprivacy.eu\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/blog.eprivacy.eu\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blog.eprivacy.eu\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blog.eprivacy.eu\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=2568"}],"version-history":[{"count":5,"href":"https:\/\/blog.eprivacy.eu\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2568\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":2575,"href":"https:\/\/blog.eprivacy.eu\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2568\/revisions\/2575"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blog.eprivacy.eu\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/media\/2607"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/blog.eprivacy.eu\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=2568"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blog.eprivacy.eu\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=2568"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blog.eprivacy.eu\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=2568"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}