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European Digital Compliance: Key Digital Regulation & Compliance Developments - July 2024

Morrison & Foerster LLP on 7/26/2024

To help organizations stay on top of the main developments in European digital compliance, Morrison Foerster’s European Digital Regulatory Compliance team reports on some of the main topical digital regulatory and compliance...more

Polish Crypto-Assets Act: a move towards tightening the market

A&O Shearman on 3/26/2024

Last month the Polish government published a draft act on crypto-assets (the Draft Act) that aims to align the national legal framework with the EU regulation on crypto-assets. The Draft Act transposes the provisions of the...more

A Cookie Is Not Just a Cookie: EDPB Issues Draft Guidelines on Art 5(3) ePrivacy Directive

Fox Rothschild LLP on 12/4/2023

A cookie is not just a cookie, according to the European Data Protection Board. It’s also similar technologies, and access and Internet of Things (IOT). Here are some key takeaways you need to know from the EDPB’s draft...more

You Use A US-based Sub Processor, You Lose, German Court says

Fox Rothschild LLP on 12/9/2021

If you use a U.S.-based sub processor (even for data processed in the EU), you lose, the German administrative court of Wiesbaden said in an interim decision. No transfer. No worries. TIA anyway...more

Amendments to Hong Kong Data Protection Law to Widen the Definition of “Personal Data” - Part 5 of 6

BCLP on 7/22/2021

Hong Kong proposes to widen the current definition of “personal data” to cover not just “identified” persons but also “identifiable” persons. The amendment is expected to cover the use of online tracking technologies such as...more

EU Court Rules that Dynamic IP Addresses are Personal Data…Sometimes

Proskauer on Privacy on 11/9/2016

On October 19, the Court of Justice of the European Union (CJEU) ruled that dynamic IP addresses may qualify as “personal data” under EU privacy law. As we covered here on the blog a few months ago, this decision is...more

"Privacy & Cybersecurity Update - October 2016"

Skadden, Arps, Slate, Meagher & Flom LLP on 11/2/2016

In this edition of our Privacy & Cybersecurity Update, we take a look at the FCC's new rules for broadband privacy, the FTC's new playbook for data breach response and notification, the NHTSA's voluntary guidance for...more

ECJ Confirms Dynamic IP Address May Constitute Personal Data But Can Be Logged to Combat Cyberattacks

McDermott Will & Emery on 11/1/2016

On 19 October 2016, the European Court of Justice (ECJ) held (Case C-582/14 – Breyer v Federal Republic of Germany) that dynamic IP addresses may constitute personal data. The ECJ also held that a website operator may collect...more

Dynamic IP Addresses May Qualify as Personal Data

Morgan Lewis on 10/26/2016

In a key decision, the European Court of Justice has ruled that dynamic IP addresses may qualify as personal data in certain circumstances—ending years of uncertainty about whether such fundamental building blocks of the...more

European Court Of Justice Rules That Dynamic IP Addresses Can Be Personal Data

Ballard Spahr LLP on 10/26/2016

In a ruling with significant potential impact, the Court of Justice of the European Union (CJEU) has ruled that a dynamic internet protocol (IP) address may constitute "personal data" under EU Data Protection Directive...more

EU Top Court Rules IP Addresses Maybe Protected Personal Data

Jackson Lewis P.C. on 10/25/2016

In a decision that could have significant impact for online companies that have European operations, the European Union’s (EU) top court ruled that Internet Protocol addresses (IP addresses) could, under certain...more

Fenwick Privacy Bulletin - Fall 2016

Fenwick & West LLP on 10/25/2016

Privacy Shield – An Early Reflection - EU law generally prohibits the transfer of personal data from the European Economic Area to the U.S., unless the transfer is made in accordance with an authorized data transfer...more

Dynamic IP Address May Now be Protected Personal Data Under EU Law

Akin Gump Strauss Hauer & Feld LLP on 10/21/2016

On October 19, 2016, the Court of Justice of the European Union (CJEU) issued a judgment determining that dynamic Internet protocol (IP) addresses may constitute “personal data” subject to protection under the EU’s Data...more

Anonymous or Not: Court of Justice Issues Ruling on IP Addresses

Latham & Watkins LLP on 10/20/2016

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

ECJ Declares IP Addresses are Personal Data

Alston & Bird on 10/20/2016

Today, the European Court of Justice (ECJ) issued its long-awaited decision in Breyer v. Germany. Breyer addresses the question of whether IP addresses are “personal data” for purposes of EU data protection law. As is...more

Are Dynamic IP Addresses Personal Data? A Primer

Proskauer on Privacy on 6/23/2016

Last month, one of the Advocate Generals (“AG”) of the Court of Justice of the European Union (“CJEU”), Manuel Campos Sánchez-Bordona, issued an opinion suggesting that dynamic IP addresses should be recognized as “personal...more

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