The European Union (EU) Commission released its Draft Adequacy Decision for the EU-US Data Privacy Framework on December 13, which, in conjunction with President Biden’s executive order issued on October 7, will further...more
The European Commission recently released a draft adequacy decision for the European Union and United States Transatlantic Data Privacy Framework (TDPF). If the decision is finalized, data transfers between the European Union...more
US President Joseph Biden issued an Executive Order On Enhancing Safeguards for United States Signals Intelligence Activities on October 7, which establishes safeguards relating to the handling of personal information in the...more
US President Joseph Biden signed the long-anticipated Executive Order on Enhancing Safeguard for United States Signals Intelligence Activities (EO) on October 7, 2022, providing enhanced protections in an effort to restore...more
Schrems II may force companies obligated to produce EU personal data to the task of determining whether to comply with US discovery obligation rules that risk fines under the GDPR for illegal data transfers or to defy the US...more
8/24/2020
/ Corporate Counsel ,
Court of Justice of the European Union (CJEU) ,
Cybersecurity ,
Data Protection ,
EU ,
EU-US Privacy Shield ,
General Data Protection Regulation (GDPR) ,
International Data Transfers ,
Personal Data ,
Personally Identifiable Information ,
Popular ,
Schrems I & Schrems II ,
Standard Contractual Clauses
The Court of Justice of the European Union (ECJ) has finally issued its decision on the validity of standard contractual clauses (SCCs) in the Irish Data Protection Commissioner’s referral to the ECJ for an opinion on the...more
7/20/2020
/ Court of Justice of the European Union (CJEU) ,
Cybersecurity ,
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
The EU Commission issued its report on the third annual review of the functioning of the EU-US Privacy Shield (Privacy Shield) on October 23. The annual review and corresponding report is required of the Commission by the its...more
The EU-US Privacy Shield became operational on August 1, 2016; a nine-month grace period for compliance with the onward transfer requirements applies for organizations that sign up to the Privacy Shield prior to October 1,...more
European Commission may need to revise the draft proposal to meet the concerns expressed by the Article 29 Working Party.
As we reported in a previous LawFlash (European Commission Releases Details of New EU-US Privacy...more
The new EU-US Privacy Shield seeks to address the European Court of Justice’s criticisms in Schrems after the decision invalidated the Safe Harbor program for EU-US data transfers.
On February 29, the EU Commission...more
3/2/2016
/ Article 29 Working Party (WP29) ,
Binding Corporate Rules ,
Data Protection Authority ,
Dispute Resolution ,
EU ,
EU-US Privacy Shield ,
European Commission ,
International Data Transfers ,
Schrems I & Schrems II ,
US Department of State ,
US-EU Safe Harbor Framework