Maryland has joined the growing list of states to pass a law — the Judge Andrew F. Wilkinson Judicial Security Act — that allows current and former members of the Maryland judiciary to request certain of their personal...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
5/13/2022
/ Advisory Committee ,
Artificial Intelligence ,
Biometric Information Privacy Act ,
Class Action ,
Connecticut ,
Data Privacy ,
Digital Services ,
Electronically Stored Information ,
Employee Tracking ,
EU ,
False Claims Act (FCA) ,
GINA ,
Personal Data ,
State Privacy Laws ,
Stored Communications Act ,
U.S. Commerce Department
On March 25, a huge sigh of relief was heard from businesses and organizations located throughout the United States and Europe after the U.S. and European Commission announced their agreement in principle on a new...more
On January 28, following the European Commission’s June 4, 2021 issuance of modified standard contractual clauses (SCCs), the United Kingdom’s (U.K.) secretary of state for digital, culture, media, and sport, presented the...more
On November 10, the United Kingdom (U.K.) Supreme Court issued a decision in Lloyd v. Google LLC, UKSC2019/0213 (Supreme Court of the United Kingdom), recognizing that the loss of control of personal data by consumers alone...more
Do you want a simple way to keep current on important privacy changes? Avoid sleepless nights wondering whether you missed a privacy speed bump or pothole between annual updates? Worry no longer. Troutman Pepper is pleased to...more
On June 4, the European Commission (Commission) adopted new standard contractual clauses (SCCs) for the transfer of personal data to third countries. SCCs have long been an important tool for EU data transfers, as one of only...more
Barely one month after the Court of Justice of the European Union (CJEU) issued its Schrems II decision striking down the EU-U.S. Privacy Shield Framework (Privacy Shield), Austrian privacy activist Max Schrems has filed 101...more
9/2/2020
/ Consumer Privacy Rights ,
Court of Justice of the European Union (CJEU) ,
Cybersecurity ,
Data Privacy ,
Data Protection ,
Data Protection Authority ,
EU ,
EU-US Privacy Shield ,
Foreign Intelligence Surveillance Act ,
General Data Protection Regulation (GDPR) ,
International Data Transfers ,
Personal Data ,
Popular ,
Safe Harbors ,
Standard Contractual Clauses
On July 16, 2020, the Court of Justice of the European Union (CJEU), the supreme court of the European Union on matters involving European Union law, issued its long anticipated decision in the “Schrems II” case ( case...more
7/21/2020
/ Court of Justice of the European Union (CJEU) ,
Cybersecurity ,
Data Processors ,
Data Protection ,
EU ,
EU-US Privacy Shield ,
General Data Protection Regulation (GDPR) ,
International Data Transfers ,
Ireland ,
Personal Data ,
Personally Identifiable Information ,
Schrems I & Schrems II ,
Standard Contractual Clauses
We routinely hear from United States citizens who want advice on how to remove photographs, newspaper articles, videos or personal information about themselves from the internet.
Originally published by the European...more
10/11/2019
/ CNIL ,
Data Protection ,
EU ,
EU Data Protection Laws ,
European Court of Justice (ECJ) ,
Facebook ,
Failure to Comply ,
General Data Protection Regulation (GDPR) ,
Google ,
Internet ,
Internet Service Providers (ISPs) ,
Personal Data ,
Personally Identifiable Information ,
Right to Be Forgotten ,
Right to Privacy ,
Search Engines
Creating a private cause of action in negligence for data breaches could result in the filing each year of possibly hundreds of thousands of lawsuits by persons whose confidential information may be in the hands of third...more
6/15/2015
/ Breach of Contract ,
Class Action ,
Data Breach ,
Data Security ,
Duty of Care ,
Negligence ,
PA Supreme Court ,
Personal Data ,
Personally Identifiable Information ,
Popular ,
Safe Harbors ,
Target