Latham develops new resource to identify considerations for assessing SCC and BCR data transfers in Europe.
Following the Schrems II decision in July 2020, organisations relying on the standard contractual clauses (SCCs) or...more
A ruling by the EU’s top court invalidates the key mechanism for transferring personal data from the EU to the US and imposes additional conditions for use of the standard contractual clauses.
On 16 July 2020, the Court of...more
The General Data Protection Regulation (GDPR or Regulation) will become applicable in one year, as of May 25, 2018. A lot has happened since we set out the key provisions of the Regulation last year....more
Well ahead of the implementation deadline for the European General Data Protection Regulation (GDPR), the German Parliament (Bundestag) passed a new Federal Data Protection Act (Bundesdatenschutzgesetz) on April 27, 2017. The...more
On October 19, 2016, the Court of Justice of the European Union (CJEU) issued a ruling on the question of whether IP addresses constitute personal data. The ruling has direct implications on the general question of when data...more
On March 17, 2016, the Civil Liberties Committee convened to discuss whether the Privacy Shield framework that will replace Safe Harbor provides adequate protection to the data of EU citizens. A number of experts were...more
3/24/2016
/ Article 29 Working Party (WP29) ,
Data Protection Authority ,
EU ,
EU-US Privacy Shield ,
European Commission ,
Federal Trade Commission (FTC) ,
International Data Transfers ,
Judicial Redress Act ,
Ombudsman ,
Personal Data ,
Standard Contractual Clauses ,
Surveillance ,
U.S. Commerce Department ,
US-EU Safe Harbor Framework
Earlier this week, the European Commission announced that a “political” agreement has been reached on a new framework for data flows from the EU to the US. The announcement highlights a few changes from the old Safe Harbor...more
2/5/2016
/ Article 29 Working Party (WP29) ,
Binding Corporate Rules ,
EU ,
EU-US Privacy Shield ,
European Commission ,
European Court of Justice (ECJ) ,
International Data Transfers ,
Ombudsman ,
Personal Data ,
Schrems I & Schrems II ,
Standard Contractual Clauses ,
US-EU Safe Harbor Framework
Almost four years after the European Commission introduced their draft for a new European Data Protection Regulation, negotiators of the European Parliament and Council are close to agreeing on a compromise text, set for...more