The Information Commissioner’s Office (ICO) has recently published guidance for employers on monitoring workers lawfully, transparently and fairly. The guidance aims to protect workers’ data protection rights and help...more
3/27/2024
/ Artificial Intelligence ,
Data Privacy ,
Data Protection ,
Electronic Monitoring ,
Email ,
Employee Monitoring ,
Employee Privacy Rights ,
Employer Liability Issues ,
EU ,
General Data Protection Regulation (GDPR) ,
Personal Data ,
Remote Working ,
UK
In this episode, our privacy lawyers, Claude-Étienne Armingaud, Whitney McCollum, and Camille Scarparo, sit down with Arya Tripathy, a partner at Priti Suri & Associates in New Dehli, and discuss together India’s newly...more
Closing in on the fifth anniversary of the entry into force of the EU General Data Protection Regulation (GDPR), the Irish Data Protection Commission (DPC) announced on 22 May 2023 that it had fined the Irish subsidiary of...more
In this episode, Claude-Etienne Armingaud, Eleonora Curreri, and Camille Scarparo celebrate the fifth year anniversary of GDPR along with lawyers from our European offices; Thomas Nietsch and Andreas Müller (Berlin), Nóirín...more
In this episode, Claude Etienne Armingaud, Eleonora Curreri, and Camille Scarparo introduce a case regarding a U.S. company’s data privacy breach, the consequences a company may face for being non-compliant with GDPR for...more
Following the positions expressed by the Austrian, German, and French supervisory authorities, the Italian Supervisory Authority (Garante per la Protezione dei Dati Personali)(Garante) published on 9 June 2022 a specific...more
Individuals having difficulties in obtaining responses to their personal data subject access requests (DSAR) from French telephone operator Free Mobile filed several complaints before the French data protection authority...more
On 21 March 2022, the United Kingdom finalized the adoption of its own version of the European Union’s Standard Contractual Clauses (SCC), a contractual mechanism aiming at securing personal data protected under a data...more
European regulators unofficially announced the major theme of this new year, through the release of several decisions pertaining to cookies and other tracking technologies in the first 10 days of 2022. As the General Data...more
1/28/2022
/ CNIL ,
Consent ,
Cookie Banners ,
Cookies ,
Data Protection ,
Data Transfers ,
e-Privacy Directive ,
EU ,
EU Data Protection Laws ,
General Data Protection Regulation (GDPR) ,
Personal Data ,
Schrems I & Schrems II
Following the conclusion of the adequacy talks in March 2021, the European Commission adopted on 17 December 2021 an adequacy decision addressing the transfers of personal data to the Republic of Korea under the General Data...more
On 6 October 2021, the Court of Justice of the European Union (CJEU or the Court) issued a judgment in case C-882/19 following a request for a preliminary ruling by the Court of Appeal of Barcelona (the Referring Court). ...more
On 28 June 2021, within 48 hours of the expiration of the post-Brexit grace period under the UK-EU Trade and Cooperation Agreement, the European Commission has adopted two adequacy decisions addressing the transfers of...more
BACKGROUND - On 30 March 2021, the European Commission, in a joint statement with the Personal Information Protection Commission, the data protection authority of the Republic of Korea (Korea), declared that Korea ensured a...more
Depending on whether you are an optimist or a pessimist, it will have taken the European Commission either three years and two weeks (since the entry into force of the General Data Protection Regulation (GDPR) or eleven...more
The French Law n°2016-1691 of 9 December 2016 relating to transparency, the fight against corruption, and the modernization of economic life, known as the “Sapin II” Act,1 introduced to legal entities additional compliance...more
The Bavarian Data Protection Authority recently prohibited a European company from using U.S. newsletter provider Mailchimp in a first-of-its-kind decision. Since the Schrems II decision of the Court of Justice of the...more
The French Supervisory Authority (CNIL) wrapped up 2020 with a EUR 20,000 fine against NESTOR, a French food preparation and delivery company catering to office employees....more
When the General Data Protection Regulation (GDPR) came into force throughout the European Union nearly three years ago, one of its most eye-catching features was its extraterritorial jurisdiction provisions. These extend the...more
With the Brexit transition period ending on 31 December 2020, and no deal in sight, the future of cross-border data transfers between the European Economic Area (the EEA) and the United Kingdom remains unclear. On 1 January...more
The European Data Protection Board (EDPB) published two sets of new guidelines on 2 September 2020, on the concepts of controller and processor (Guidelines 07/2020, the Guidelines) and on the targeting of social media users...more
On 4 July 2019, the French Data Protection (CNIL) published its Guidelines on Cookies and Other Tracking Technologies. The Guidelines further detailed the nature of the interplay between the General Data Protection Regulation...more
With the recent decision from the Court of Justice of the European Union invalidating the Privacy Shield framework and subjecting the Standard Contractual Clauses (SCCs) to higher standard of enforcement, global companies...more
Approaching its second anniversary this month, the European General Data Protection Regulation (GDPR) has never been as relevant as in these unprecedented COVID-19 times. While several countries are considering the...more
November will see several opportunities to discuss privacy matters in Europe and meet with The Privacist contributors within the K&L Gates’ platform, in connection with the International Association of Privacy Professionals...more
11/11/2019
/ California Consumer Privacy Act (CCPA) ,
Cybersecurity ,
Data Collection ,
Data Privacy ,
Data Processors ,
Data Protection ,
Data Security ,
EU ,
EU-US Privacy Shield ,
General Data Protection Regulation (GDPR) ,
Personal Data
BREXIT: DEAL OR NO-DEAL? DATA IS THE QUESTION -
With the Brexit deadline looming ahead on 31 October 2019, the situation seemingly reaches new levels of uncertainty every day. Last week, the U.K. Supreme Court’s eleven...more
10/4/2019
/ Cookies ,
Court of Justice of the European Union (CJEU) ,
Data Breach ,
Data Controller ,
Data Protection ,
EU ,
EU-US Privacy Shield ,
General Data Protection Regulation (GDPR) ,
Information Commissioner's Office (ICO) ,
Personal Data ,
UK ,
UK Brexit