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Irish Data Case Against Facebook Could Complicate All Data Transfers to the US

Womble Bond Dickinson on 9/17/2020

Will the EU finally deny the right to transfer any personal data from its shores to the United States? Its privacy decisions have been inching closer to this determination for years, and an Irish case against Facebook may tip...more

EU-U.S. Privacy Shield – Its Origins and the High Bar It Must Meet

Pierce Atwood LLP on 8/7/2017

To predict the Privacy Shield’s future, it’s helpful to recall its origins and to understand the high bar it must meet – namely, ensuring “an adequate level of protection” under the Data Protection Directive. ...more

Transatlantic Data Transfer: An Update

Robinson+Cole Data Privacy + Security Insider on 10/18/2016

The EU-US Privacy Shield, designed to protect EU citizens’ personal data when it is transferred to US organisations, has now been in place for a couple of months. How is it shaping up?...more

President Obama Signs New Privacy Law – Judicial Redress Act

Moore & Van Allen PLLC on 3/4/2016

On February 24, 2016, President Obama signed into law the Judicial Redress Act giving citizens of certain “covered countries” access to U.S. courts to protect their privacy and take legal action against U.S. government...more

Advertising Law - October 2015 #3

Manatt, Phelps & Phillips, LLP on 10/23/2015

With EU Safe Harbor Invalidated, Companies Ask: What Now? - What happens now?: That is the question that businesses across the country are asking after the Court of Justice of the European Union (CJEU) threw out the...more

Means, Other Than Safe Harbor, of Transferring Personal Data to the U.S. Potentially Vitiated?

McGuireWoods LLP on 10/16/2015

After the decision of October 6, 2015, of the Court of Justice of the EU (CJEU) invalidating the decision from the EU Commission (Decision 2000/520) on the Safe Harbor, transfer of personal data to the U.S. based on Standard...more

The End of Safe Harbor – What Does it Mean?

Cozen O'Connor on 10/13/2015

This past Tuesday, in the groundbreaking decision of Schrems vs. Data Protection Commissioner (C-362/14), the Court of Justice of the European Union (CJEU) invalidated the Safe Harbor provision of the EU Commission,...more

Snowden Aftershocks: High Court Invalidates U.S.-EU Safe Harbor

Kelley Drye & Warren LLP on 10/8/2015

This week, largely driven by concerns over indiscriminate U.S. surveillance of EU citizen data, the Court of Justice of the European Commission (ECJ) invalidated the 15-year-old U.S.-EU Safe Harbor framework in Maximillian...more

Court of Justice of the European Union Says Safe Harbor Is No Longer Safe

McDermott Will & Emery on 10/7/2015

On October 6, 2015, the Court of Justice of the European Union (CJEU) announced its determination that the U.S.-EU Safe Harbor program is no longer a “safe” (i.e., legally valid) means for transferring personal data of EU...more

ECJ Rules EU-US Safe Harbor Programme Is Invalid

Morgan Lewis on 10/7/2015

The powers of EU data protection authorities are significantly strengthened by the decision, allowing them to suspend some or all personal data flows into the United States in certain circumstances. In Maximillian...more

The European Court of Justice Invalidates Safe Harbor

Foley Hoag LLP on 10/7/2015

The European Court of Justice has just issued a decision (ECJ 6 October 2015 Case C-362/14, Maximillian Schrems v. Data Protection Commissioner) that invalidates the so-called US-EU “Safe Harbor” system. Suddenly, what 3,500...more

US Safe Harbor Not Safe from EU Court Ruling

Womble Bond Dickinson on 10/7/2015

A major European court has just pulled the rug out from under nearly 5,000 US companies, snatching away the relative business certainty of the Data Transfer Safe Harbor, and maybe the safety of standard contract clauses and...more

US-EU Safe Harbor Invalidated: What Now?

Proskauer - Privacy & Cybersecurity on 10/7/2015

On October 6, 2015, the European Court of Justice (CJEU) invalidated the US-EU Safe Harbor framework, effective immediately. This momentous decision jeopardizes the continued flow of data from Europe to the US. As the Safe...more

EU – US Safe Harbor Ruled Invalid

Benesch on 10/6/2015

The global data protection community was issued a major blow early on Tuesday, October 6, 2015, when the Court of Justice of the European Union (“CJEU”) (the European Union’s highest court) declared the fifteen year old EU-US...more

Is the Safe Harbor Framework Still Safe?

Ogletree, Deakins, Nash, Smoak & Stewart,... on 10/5/2015

On October 6, 2015, the European Court of Justice (ECJ) will issue its decision in Schrems v. Data Protection Commissioner, Case C-362/14, which may invalidate the U.S.-EU Safe Harbor Framework. The Safe Harbor Framework...more

EU–US Safe Harbor About to be Struck Down?

Orrick, Herrington & Sutcliffe LLP on 10/1/2015

Thousands of U.S. and European companies who rely on the EU–US Safe Harbor Framework to permit the transfer of personal data from the EU to the U.S., have come a step closer to seeing the transfer mechanism struck down....more

Judicial Redress Act Advances

Proskauer - Privacy & Cybersecurity on 9/29/2015

In what may prove to be a major step forward in US-EU privacy relations, the House Judicial Committee approved H.R. 1428, the Judicial Redress Act of 2015, on September 16. If enacted, the bill would allow citizens of...more

Advocate General Of ECJ Rules EU Data Protection Authorities Can Investigate Complaints About Safe Harbor Programme

Morgan Lewis on 9/28/2015

Data transfers can be suspended until investigation is complete. In Maximillian Schrems v. Data Protection Commissioner (case C-362/14), the Advocate General ruled that EU data protection authorities do have powers to...more

Privacy Monday, September 28, 2015: More on US-EU Safe Harbor — what’s next?

Mintz - Privacy & Cybersecurity Viewpoints on 9/28/2015

We will be following up our post last week regarding the latest US-EU Safe Harbor decision out of Europe with further analysis both from the Mintz Privacy team and our international network of privacy specialists. Our...more

Advocate General Bot Proposes That CJEU Declare the Safe Harbor Invalid

McGuireWoods LLP on 9/24/2015

On September 23, 2015, Advocate General Yves Bot delivered an opinion on the issue of the transfer of personal data from Facebook Ireland to Facebook USA, in light of the generalized access the National Security Agency (NSA)...more

Snowden's Legacy: Safe Harbor under fire at the CJEU

Latham & Watkins LLP on 3/27/2015

This week the Court of Justice of the European Union (‘CJEU’) heard a case that could destabilise data flows between the US and EU under the EU-US Safe Harbor Decision. In Schrems v Data Protection Commissioner (C-362/14),...more

U.S. Steps Up Efforts to Make “Safe Harbor Safe Again” – FTC, Justice Department Work to Keep EU Happy and Avoid Pull Back from...

Davis Wright Tremaine LLP on 6/30/2014

Within the span of two days, both the Federal Trade Commission (FTC) and the U.S. Department of Justice announced initiatives meant to assuage the European Union’s concerns over trans-Atlantic data flows and to secure...more

Personal Data Transfers from the European Economic Area: Binding Corporate Rules Emerge as Increasingly Attractive Option

Pillsbury Winthrop Shaw Pittman LLP on 2/26/2014

It is difficult to recall a time when the issue of personal data transfers from the European Economic Area ("EEA") has been as widely and hotly debated as it has over the past year or so. Significant movements during the past...more

International Privacy - 2013 Year in Review - European Union

BakerHostetler on 12/30/2013

Outside of the EU, concerns continue after the former NSA contractor Edward Snowden leaks demonstrated issues related to U.S. handling of European data. Beginning in July, 2013, the ongoing Transatlantic Trade and Investment...more

Trade Secrets Watch 2013 Year-In-Review

Orrick - Trade Secrets Group on 12/20/2013

It’s been a hot year in the trade secrets field, with some huge verdicts and settlements, a renewed spotlight on cyberattacks, and an unusual flurry of trade secrets legislation. Trade Secrets Watch’s 2013 Year-in-Review...more

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