Introducing The Crypto Exchange Podcast
Episode #7 - It's All About Latency: The Future of Data Processing and Storage
Sitting with the C-Suite: eDiscovery Priorities – Thoughts on the Next Five Years
Compliance Perspectives: Regulatory Conflicts in Data Privacy Laws
Compliance Perspectives: Compliance, GDPR and Brexit
The CCPA for the Land Title Industry: Who Does the CCPA Apply To?
E14: The Three Pillars of GDPR
E13: GDPR Wedding Day & Beyond
E12: GDPR Article 22 and Automated Decision Making
E8: Interview with Cookiebot CEO on Technical Solutions to GDPR Readiness
Exactly one year from now, on September 12, 2025, the EU Data Act will enter into application. This new regulation provides harmonized rules on data access, switching cloud providers, and interoperability requirements across...more
The EU Data Act came into force on January 11, 2024. The Data Act is part of the European Commission’s data strategy released in February 2020 and obliges manufacturers of connected products to make use-related data available...more
The Court of Justice of the European Union (CJEU) published the Advocate General's Opinion on whether the GDPR would restrict the sale of a database by court enforcement officers to satisfy creditor claims without the consent...more
On July 4, 2023, the European Commission (EC) published its proposal for a regulation laying down additional procedural rules for the enforcement of the EU General Data Protection Regulation (GDPR) (proposal). The proposal...more
The Pakistan Ministry of Information Technology and Telecommunication (MITT) released a new draft of the Personal Data Protection Bill, 2023 (the PDPB) on 19 May 2023. The PDPB aims to regulate the collection, processing,...more
The updated guidelines (05/2021) from the European Data Protection Board (“EDPB”) issued on 14 February 2023 (the “New Guidelines”) look at the interplay of two fundamental, protective mechanisms contained in the EU GDPR....more
In a recent judgment, the Court of Justice of the European Union (the CJEU) has confirmed that Data Protection Officers (DPOs) can maintain other tasks and duties within their role, provided they do not result in a conflict...more
On January 12, 2023, the Court of Justice of the European Union (CJEU) ruled that the data subject’s right of access to personal data requires controllers to provide the data subject with the identity of the companies that...more
For American companies doing business in Europe and European businesses relying on U.S. vendors and service providers, 2023 may be the year when Europe and the United States finally come together to implement a viable and...more
Earlier this month the Court of Justice of the European Union (“CJEU”) issued a decision adopting a surprisingly broad interpretation of the “special categories of personal data” under GDPR. Under GDPR Article 9, such data...more
The UK government set out its detailed proposals for data protection reform on 18 July 2022 in the form of the Data Protection and Digital Information Bill. Compared with some of the radical ideas in the 2021 public...more
On January 12, 2022, the French data protection authority (“CNIL“) published guidance on the reuse of personal data by processors for their purposes (“Guidance”). This the most recent guidance of a major EU regulator on a...more
It is well known that the EU GDPR (specifically, Chapter V) restricts transfers of personal data from the EU to a “third country” (i.e. a jurisdiction outside the EEA) or to an international organisation. But what is meant by...more
When the General Data Protection Regulation (GDPR) came into force throughout the European Union nearly three years ago, one of its most eye-catching features was its extraterritorial jurisdiction provisions. These extend the...more
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
On November 12, 2020, the European Commission (EC) issued a draft version of a new set of Standard Contractual Clauses (New SCCs). The long-awaited New SCCs include several modules that companies can use depending on the...more
On 2 September 2020, the European Data Protection Board (“EDPB”) published draft guidelines on the concepts of controller, joint controllers and processor, which – as explained below - play a crucial role within GDPR...more
Keypoint: Entities that use Article 28 data processing agreements should closely review the EDBP’s draft guidelines and modify their data processing agreement as necessary. In September, the European Data Protection Board...more
On Friday September 4, 2020, the European Data Protection Board (EDPB), a body consisting of representatives of all the Data Protection Authorities (DPAs) in the European Economic Area, announced that it had formed two new...more
You are an American company. While you sell product or otherwise interact with Europe, and thereby collect personal information about European residents, you have no assets or facilities on that continent. Nonetheless, you...more
Even though the General Data Protection Regulation (“GDPR”) became effective on May 25, 2018, its application to U.S.-based employers continues to evolve and increase in complexity. For U.S. employers of European Union (“EU”)...more
One of the more operationally challenging components of the General Data Protection Regulation (GDPR), was the restriction on transferring European personal data to recipients outside of the European Economic Area (EEA). ...more
The type of contractual provisions that a company is required by the GDPR to impose upon a service provider differ based upon two primary factors: (1) whether the service provider is a “processor,” a “controller,” or a “joint...more
The European Data Protection Board (EDPB) and a number of European data protection supervisory authorities have recently issued guidance on processing personal data, including special categories of personal data (i.e., health...more
On December 10, 2019, the Danish Supervisory Authority (SA) published its final version of Standard Contractual Clauses (SCCs) that data controllers and processors may use to satisfy the General Data Protection Regulation...more