In this episode, Thomas Nietsch, a partner in our Berlin office, sits down with Jelena Kljujic (Privacy Officer at Cisco, EMEA) and Gabriela Mercuri (Managing Director at Scope Europe) to discuss strategies for ensuring...more
In a Nutshell - On 10 July 2023—nearly three years to the day after the Schrems II decision of the Court of Justice for the European Union (CJEU) (Schrems II Decision, see our Alert here)—the EU Commission has adopted the...more
In this episode, Claude-Etienne Armingaud, Eleonora Curreri, and Camille Scarparo celebrate the fifth year anniversary of GDPR along with lawyers from our European offices; Thomas Nietsch and Andreas Müller (Berlin), Nóirín...more
In mid-December the European Union (EU) enacted new legislation aiming at harmonizing, and tightening, information technology (IT) security rules in the financial sector: Regulation (EU) 2022/2554 on digital operational...more
The European Parliament and Council dropped an early Christmas present on all stakeholders in the digital environment and critical infrastructure that may feel to some like a bit of coal in the stocking, as it will require...more
On 21 March 2022, the United Kingdom finalized the adoption of its own version of the European Union’s Standard Contractual Clauses (SCC), a contractual mechanism aiming at securing personal data protected under a data...more
BACKGROUND - On 30 March 2021, the European Commission, in a joint statement with the Personal Information Protection Commission, the data protection authority of the Republic of Korea (Korea), declared that Korea ensured a...more
Depending on whether you are an optimist or a pessimist, it will have taken the European Commission either three years and two weeks (since the entry into force of the General Data Protection Regulation (GDPR) or eleven...more
The Bavarian Data Protection Authority recently prohibited a European company from using U.S. newsletter provider Mailchimp in a first-of-its-kind decision. Since the Schrems II decision of the Court of Justice of the...more
As announced by a press release dated 1 October 2020, the Hamburg Commissioner for Data Protection and Freedom of Information (HmbBfDI) has issued a fine of €35,258,707.95 (approx. US$41.2 million) against H&M Hennes &...more
Approaching its second anniversary this month, the European General Data Protection Regulation (GDPR) has never been as relevant as in these unprecedented COVID-19 times. While several countries are considering the...more
November will see several opportunities to discuss privacy matters in Europe and meet with The Privacist contributors within the K&L Gates’ platform, in connection with the International Association of Privacy Professionals...more
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