Jukka Lång

Partner Jukka Lång is known for his solution-oriented approach and extensive experience in data protection matters and his capability to understand client’s business needs relating to the use of data in today’s evolving business landscape. Jukka Lång is the leading Finnish lawyer in the field of data protection and privacy and a trusted strategic speaking partner and advisor for many innovative Finnish listed companies in all their business matters relating to data protection and cyber security. He advises clients in large-scale international data protection and data security compliance projects and provides strategic advice, for example, in projects relating to adaption of artificial intelligence, data transfers and connected devices. He has also represented clients in ground-breaking data protection disputes in different Finnish courts, including the Supreme Administrative Court, and on the EU level in the Court of Justice of the European Union in Luxembourg. Since 2012 he has been teaching a course of data protection law and contracts at the Faculty of Law, University of Helsinki, and he has served as chairman of the Finnish Bar Association’s Technology, Communication and Data Protection expert group 2018–2024. Jukka Lång started his career in data protection law as an inspector of the Finnish Data Protection Authority in 2003. · Dittmar & Indrenius

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Partner at Dittmar & Indrenius, Jukka Lång is a leading Finnish lawyer specialising in data protection and privacy who advises innovative Finnish listed companies on large-scale international data protection and data security compliance, AI adaptation, data transfers and connected devices. He has represented clients in precedent-setting data protection disputes in Finnish courts including the Supreme Administrative Court and before the Court of Justice of the European Union, teaches data protection law and contracts at the University of Helsinki since 2012, and chaired the Finnish Bar Association’s Technology, Communication and Data Protection expert group 2018–2024.

Practice areas

Data Protection & PrivacyCybersecurityTechnologyLitigation

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Finland

Dittmar & Indrenius · Partner Jukka Lång is known for his solution-oriented approach and extensive experience in data protection matters and his capability to understand client’s business needs relating to the use of data in today’s evolving business landscape. Jukka Lång is the leading Finnish lawyer in the field of data protection and privacy and a trusted strategic speaking partner and advisor for many innovative Finnish listed companies in all their business matters relating to data protection and cyber security. He advises clients in large-scale international data protection and data security compliance projects and provides strategic advice, for example, in projects relating to adaption of artificial intelligence, data transfers and connected devices. He has also represented clients in ground-breaking data protection disputes in different Finnish courts, including the Supreme Administrative Court, and on the EU level in the Court of Justice of the European Union in Luxembourg. Since 2012 he has been teaching a course of data protection law and contracts at the Faculty of Law, University of Helsinki, and he has served as chairman of the Finnish Bar Association’s Technology, Communication and Data Protection expert group 2018–2024. Jukka Lång started his career in data protection law as an inspector of the Finnish Data Protection Authority in 2003.

Finland

Expertise

Artificial IntelligenceData TransfersConnected DevicesData Security CompliancePrivacy LitigationPublicly Listed Companies

Education

Certified Information Privacy Professional/Europe (CIPP/E), 2013
University of Helsinki, M.A. (History), 2009
University of Helsinki, LL.M., 2006

Admissions

Member, Finnish Bar Association
Member, International Association of Privacy Professionals (IAPP)

Languages

EnglishFinnishSwedish