The new 1,246-page Trade and Cooperation Agreement (TCA) between the United Kingdom and the European Union has ended the suspense over what restrictions will apply to the transfer of personal data between the EU and the UK...more
The European Commission has just published a consultation draft of the long-promised updated version of the Standard Contractual Clauses (SCCs). The SCCs are the most commonly used legal mechanism for transferring personal...more
11/16/2020
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Standard Contractual Clauses
Despite the overall political uncertainty about Brexit, worries about a sudden stop to personal data transfers from the UK to the US are misplaced, deal or no deal. There is, in fact, a plan, and it’s a reasonable, practical...more
The general definition of “personal information” used in the majority of statutes is: An individual’s first name or first initial and last name plus one or more of the following data elements: (i) Social Security number, (ii)...more
There’s no doubt businesses in the EU and US would breathe a sigh of relief if a new Safe Harbor agreement is put in place between before European data protection authorities start prosecuting companies for potentially...more
1/29/2016
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Corporate Counsel ,
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EU Data Protection Laws ,
European Court of Justice (ECJ) ,
General Data Protection Regulation (GDPR) ,
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Young Lawyers
(LONDON) The highly influential Article 29 Working Party, composed in part of representatives of the EU’s national data protection offices, has announced that the right to be forgotten applies to .com as well as...more
In the Google Spain “Right to be Forgotten” case, the ECJ held that Google must remove links to a newspaper article containing properly published information about a Spanish individual on the basis that the information is no...more