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Wilson Sonsini Goodrich & Rosati

Meta Receives Record 1.2 Billion EUR Fine and Is Ordered to Suspend Its EU-U.S. Data Transfers

On May 22, 2023, Ireland’s Data Protection Commission (DPC) published its long-awaited decision in the Meta EU-U.S. data transfer case (Decision). In its landmark Decision, the DPC imposed a record 1.2 billion EUR fine and...more

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European Commission Proposes Legislation Facilitating Data Access and Sharing

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On February 23, 2022, the European Commission ("Commission") published a proposal for a Data Act which aims at enhancing data access and use within the European Union ("EU")....more

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2021 Data Privacy Overview: New Regulations and Guidance

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While everyone hoped that 2021 would be less tumultuous than 2020, it certainly did not turn out that way in the end. The same was true in the world of data privacy – with sweeping new data protection regulations and guidance...more

Dechert LLP

Dechert Cyber Bits - Issue 4

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EDPB Issues Draft Guidance on International Data Transfers - On November 18, 2021, the European Data Protection Board (“EDPB”) published draft guidance on the interaction between the GDPR’s transfer provisions set out in...more

Neal, Gerber & Eisenberg LLP

NGE On Demand: Personal Data Protection Travels: The New Standard Contractual Clause with John Koenigsknecht and David Wheeler

NGE Corporate & Securities partner John Koenigsknecht recently interviewed Data Privacy & Information Governance partner David Wheeler about the new standard contractual clauses and the complex task of assessing and...more

Hogan Lovells

European Commission takes key step towards free flow of data to the UK

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On February 19, the European Commission (EC) published the draft of its much hoped-for adequacy decision for transfers of personal data to the UK under the EU General Data Protection Regulation (EU GDPR) (Draft Adequacy...more

Wyrick Robbins Yates & Ponton LLP

Work in Progress: Substantial Revisions Recommended to the European Commission's Draft New Standard Contractual Clauses

Last week, the European Data Protection Board (“EDPB”) and the European Data Protection Supervisor (“EDPS”) published a joint opinion on the European Commission’s (“EC”) proposed new set of Standard Contractual Clauses for...more

Sheppard Mullin Richter & Hampton LLP

EDPB Sheds Post-Schrems II Light on Supplementary Measures for Data Transfers

The EDPB recently published recommendations on additional security steps to take when transferring personal data out of the EU. As outlined in our previous series of posts, the EU found this summer that the EU-US Privacy...more

Rothwell, Figg, Ernst & Manbeck, P.C.

Speed Dating in the UK? Negotiating New Data Protection Relationships with the EU

With all that has happened this year, most of us can’t wait until 2020 is in the rear view mirror.  The end of 2020, however, marks the end of the transition period provided, post-Brexit, to allow time for UK businesses and...more

Shook, Hardy & Bacon L.L.P.

Privacy and Data Security Alert | December 2019

SDNY Rejects Standing under “Increased Risk” Theory Where Data Not Targeted or Stolen - The Southern District of New York rejected a settlement that would have resolved a class action based on the unauthorized (and...more

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Data class actions in Europe and spotlights in Mexico, Russia and the U.S.

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The General Data Protection Regulation 2016/679 (GDPR) provides means to enforce provisions related to personal data processing by you as a data controller or data processor. It introduces collective actions everywhere in...more

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EU-Japan Mutual Adequacy Arrangement

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The European Commission has issued an "adequacy decision" in respect of Japan reducing the regulatory burden of transferring personal data from the EU to Japan. Japan has made an equivalent decision for transfers to the EU....more

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EU-Japan Data Flows

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On September 5, 2018, the European Commission (“EC”) published its draft decision on whether Japan’s 2003 Act on the Protection of Personal Information (“APPI”) provides protection equivalent to the protection of personal...more

Shook, Hardy & Bacon L.L.P.

Food & Beverage Litigation Update | June 2018

“Accurate Labels Act” Introduced in Congress - U.S. Sen. Jerry Moran (R-Kan.) and Reps. Adam Kinzinger (R-Ill.) and Kurt Schrader (D-Ore.) have introduced the Accurate Labels Act, a proposed amendment to the Fair Packaging...more

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Effects of Schrems Ruling on International Internal Investigations

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In a recent landmark decision, Maximillian Schrems v. Data Protection Commissioner, Europe’s highest court struck down a US-EU agreement that allowed companies to move personal electronic data between the European Union and...more

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US Safe Harbor Not Safe from EU Court Ruling

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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

Mintz - Privacy & Cybersecurity Viewpoints

Safe Harbor Invalidated – What’s Next on the Chopping Block?

As I reported earlier today, the Court of Justice of the EU (ECJ) has declared Safe Harbor invalid. The full decision is now available online in English (other languages also available at curia.europa.eu by searching on...more

Mintz - Privacy & Cybersecurity Viewpoints

EU Top Court’s Safe Harbor Decision Invalidates Safe Harbor and Sends Facebook Case Back to Irish Data Protection Authority

The initial reports of the ECJ’s decision in the Schrems Safe Harbor case (C-362/14) indicate that the Court of Justice of the EU has declared Safe Harbor invalid and sent the case back to the Irish Data Protection Authority...more

Locke Lord LLP

EU U.S. Data Protection: The Safe Harbor Framework Under Attack

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As a reaction to recent disclosures and revelations about the data collection and surveillance by the US government, the Safe Harbor permitting the transfer of personal information from the EU to the US is under attack, and...more

Proskauer - Privacy & Cybersecurity

Uncertainty for the U.S.-EU Safe Harbor Intensified by Non-Binding Recommendation for EU High Court Advisor

In a non-binding opinion issued on September 23, 2015, an Advocate General for the European Court of Justice (“ECJ”) recommended that the ECJ suspend the U.S.-EU Safe Harbor program (“Safe Harbor”) and reexamine whether the...more

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Safe Harbor Framework in Jeopardy After Advocate General Decision

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On September 23, 2015, Advocate General Yves Bot advised the European Court of Justice that the US-EU Safe Harbor framework for the protection of trans-Atlantic transfers of personal data is invalid. The long awaited Opinion...more

Mintz - Privacy & Cybersecurity Viewpoints

ECJ Advocate General’s Safe Harbor Opinion Points Towards Imminent End of Safe Harbor As We Know It

Does your company rely on Safe Harbor to transfer personal data from Europe to the US? If so, it’s time to think about alternatives to Safe Harbor – and fast....more

Davis Wright Tremaine LLP

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

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

Skadden, Arps, Slate, Meagher & Flom LLP

Privacy & Cybersecurity Update - December 2013

In This Issue: - European Commission Proposes Changes to the US-EU Safe Harbor: In our November Privacy & Cybersecurity Update,1 we reported that the European Commission was undertaking a review of the U.S.-EU...more

Mintz - Privacy & Cybersecurity Viewpoints

European Commission Proposes New Ground Rules for US Safe Harbor

(LONDON) The European Commission, which has the authority to make changes to the US Safe Harbor program, has published a paper titled “Rebuilding Trust in EU-US Data Flows” that sets out the changes that the Commission would...more

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