Data Transfer from the European Union to the United States is a knotty process. The difficulties were compounded this summer when Europe’s highest court held the “Privacy Shield” program enabling U.S-E.U. data transfers...more
11/25/2020
/ Cybersecurity ,
Data Breach ,
Data Privacy ,
Data Processors ,
Data Protection ,
Data Protection Officers (DPOs) ,
EU ,
EU Data Protection Laws ,
General Data Protection Regulation (GDPR) ,
International Data Transfers ,
Personal Data ,
Personally Identifiable Information
We have previously written about “phishing.” Phishing involves using social pressure to trick the recipient to send sensitive information, network control, or credentials, to hackers posing as authorized users....more
Countless businesses export data from the European Union to the United States. Does your human resources office have information on European employees? The sales department information on European clients? That is personal...more
The sword finally fell. Last week, the European Union’s (EU) highest court, the Court of Justice (CJEU) invalidated Privacy Shield. Privacy Shield was a legal framework that enabled EU companies to process data in the United...more
In 2015, the European Court of Justice struck down Safe Harbor, the legal device that enabled data transfers from the European Union to the United States. This summer, Safe Harbor’s successor, Privacy Shield, may meet the...more
Amidst the thicket of federal regulators that populate Washington is the obscure Committee on Foreign Investment in the United States (CFIUS). Founded on the eve of World War II, CFIUS is an inter-agency task force. Its...more
In finding a common law duty to protect employees’ personal data, the Pennsylvania Supreme Court has unexpectedly, and dramatically, altered the contours of the data breach litigation landscape....more
The ink had barely dried on the Alabama’s new data breach notification statute (which made it the 50th state to enact such legislation) when California upped the ante. In an effort to head off a November ballot initiative,...more
Given recent headlines, ranging from Facebook to Cambridge Analytica to the City of Atlanta’s ransomware attack, the logical inference is that the European Union’s General Data Protection Regulation (GDPR) is a product of our...more
It's coming. The European Union’s General Data Protection Regulation (GDPR) will come into effect on May 25, 2018. If your business involves processing EU citizen data, you will be subject to GDPR – even if your sole location...more