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Latham & Watkins and Privacy Laws & Business recently co-hosted a webinar looking back on the first eight months since the UK-US Data Bridge entered into force. Speakers from the UK Information Commissioner’s Office (ICO) and...more
The U.S. Departments of Justice and Commerce, as well as the European Commission recently launched the EU-US Data Privacy Framework (“DPF”), marking a significant shift from the previous frameworks such as Safe Harbor and...more
Following on the heels of the launch of the EU-U.S. Data Privacy Framework (DPF) this summer, the U.S. Department of Commerce has extended the DPF to cover transfers of personal data from the United Kingdom (UK) (and...more
On the heels of the EU-US Data Privacy Framework (DPF), another bridge has been built across the Atlantic to streamline data transfers between businesses. In July, the European Commission adopted its much-anticipated...more
The United States ("U.S.") and the European Union ("EU") have settled on a framework for transfers of personal data for the first time since the European Court of Justice ("CJEU") effectively invalidate the EU-U.S. Privacy...more
U.S. companies can now self-certify to permit personal data to freely flow from the Europe to the United States. U.S. organizations can now self-certify their compliance with the EU-U.S. Data Privacy Framework (DPF) to...more
On July 10, the European Union and the United States finalized the EU-U.S. Data Privacy Framework (DPF), an agreement that allows for the transfer of personal data from residents of the EU to certified companies in the U.S....more
On July 10, 2023, the European Commission concluded that the US ensures an adequate level of protection for personal data transferred from the European Union to US companies under the new EU-US Data Privacy Framework. Based...more
On July 10, 2023, the European Commission adopted its long-awaited adequacy decision for the EU-U.S. Data Privacy Framework (“Adequacy Decision”). This ends a three-year journey to set up a successor to the EU-U.S. Privacy...more
President Biden and EU leaders announced on March 25, 2022 an agreement in principle to craft a replacement for the Privacy Shield and expand options for trans-Atlantic data transfers in accordance with the General Data...more
Editor’s Note: Connecticut became the fifth state in the nation to successfully pass a comprehensive privacy bill (now awaiting its governor’s signature), following California, Colorado, Utah, and Virginia. Meanwhile,...more
As we have written in the past, APEC’s Cross-Border Privacy Rules (CBPR) program is intended to help companies more easily transfer personal data across borders. Participating companies complete self-assessments and...more
The U.S. government's efforts to secure sensitive personal data against foreign adversaries, primarily with an eye toward China, continue. On June 9, 2021, President Joe Biden signed the Executive Order on Protecting...more
Key Points - On January 19, 2021, the U.S. Commerce Department published an interim final rule (IFR) to implement Executive Order 13873 of May 15, 2019, on “Securing the Information and Communications Technology and...more
Turning to the business of exports from the United States, the next section is a must-read for any company doing business in the United States or from the United States. Or for that matter, any company competing with affected...more
The U.S. Department of Commerce (DOC), Department of Justice (DOJ), and the Office of the Director of National Intelligence (ODNI) jointly issued a White Paper containing information about privacy protections under U.S. law...more
In a letter from Deputy Assistant Secretary James Sullivan, the U.S. Department of Commerce introduced a white paper, “Information on U.S. Privacy Safeguards Relevant to SCCs and Other EU Legal Bases for EU-U.S. Data...more
Sunday, September 20, 2020, was intended to be the day on which prohibitions would go into effect on ByteDance Ltd. (ByteDance) and Tencent Holdings Ltd. (Tencent) and their subsidiaries—makers of the TikTok and WeChat apps,...more
This past weekend saw a halt to the anticipated September 20 implementation of broad prohibitions published on September 18 by the U.S. Department of Commerce (Commerce) regarding TikTok and WeChat mobile applications. No...more
On September 18, 2020, the U.S. Department of Commerce issued two orders identifying the specific transactions related to the WeChat and TikTok mobile applications ("Orders") that are prohibited pursuant to Executive Orders...more
As the countdown continues to September 20, our International Trade & Regulatory Group examines the ambiguities underlying the unprecedented Executive Orders purporting to ban the use of TikTok and WeChat, questions that may...more
As discussed in a previous advisory, the European Union’s supreme court, the Court of Justice of the European Union (CJEU), invalidated the EU-U.S. Privacy Shield Framework (Privacy Shield) in its July 16, 2020 decision in...more
In this month's edition, we examine the Court of Justice of the European Union's decision invalidating the EU-U.S. Privacy Shield framework, as well as the U.S. government's response to the decision. We also examine two...more
U.S. companies will face restrictions on transferring and storing information about European residents after the European Court of Justice ruled that such transfers exposed Europeans to American government surveillance...more
The European Data Protection Board (EDPB) has issued its much anticipated FAQs on the Court of Justice of the European Union's (CJEU) Schrems II decision. This document does not yet contain the "supplementary measures" that...more