On July 12, 2024, the European Union published the language of its much-anticipated Artificial Intelligence Act (AI Act), which is the world’s first comprehensive legislation regulating the growing use of artificial...more
On March 13, 2024, European Union policymakers finally passed the long anticipated Artificial Intelligence Act (AI Act), the world’s first comprehensive artificial intelligence (AI) legislation, providing employers with...more
European Union policymakers reached a provisional agreement on the Platform Work Directive on March 11, 2024, which reveals significant concessions on the classification of digital platform workers as employees or independent...more
3/28/2024
/ Artificial Intelligence ,
Biometric Information ,
Classification ,
Corporate Counsel ,
Data Privacy ,
Digital Platforms ,
Employee Definition ,
EU ,
EU Directive ,
Independent Contractors ,
Multi-Factor Test ,
Online Platforms ,
Rebuttable Presumptions
On February 2, 2024, European Union policymakers reached an agreement on the final text of the Artificial Intelligence Act (AI Act), taking us another step closer to the world’s first comprehensive AI legislation, and,...more
After more than two years of legislative highs and lows for the European Union’s proposed Platform Work Directive, the EU may be inching closer to adopting regulations on the classification of platform workers, such as...more
1/22/2024
/ Artificial Intelligence ,
Corporate Counsel ,
Delivery Drivers ,
Digital Platforms ,
Drivers ,
Employee Definition ,
EU ,
EU Directive ,
Independent Contractors ,
Member State ,
Misclassification ,
Mobile Apps ,
Multi-Factor Test ,
Rebuttable Presumptions ,
Ridesharing
The Court of Justice of the European Union (CJEU) recently declared that the EU-U.S. Privacy Shield is invalid because it does not provide an adequate level of protection for the transfer of personal data from the European...more
In addition to the potential uses of contact-tracing apps, discussed recently in episode 1 of the Global Solutions series, most employers now conduct some form of employee screening or monitoring to help prevent the spread of...more
On July 16, 2020, the Court of Justice of the European Union (CJEU) announced its judgment in the so-called Schrems II case (Case C-311/18), declaring that the EU-U.S. Privacy Shield is invalid because it does not provide an...more
7/17/2020
/ Court of Justice of the European Union (CJEU) ,
EU ,
EU-US Privacy Shield ,
European Commission ,
International Data Transfers ,
Personal Data ,
Safe Harbors ,
Schrems I & Schrems II ,
Standard Contractual Clauses ,
Surveillance ,
U.S. Commerce Department
On October 23, 2019, the European Commission published its report after its third annual review on the functioning of the EU-U.S. Privacy Shield. The Privacy Shield, which became operational in August 2016, details procedures...more
11/5/2019
/ Annual Reports ,
Data Protection Authority ,
EU ,
EU-US Privacy Shield ,
European Commission ,
Federal Trade Commission (FTC) ,
Human Resources Professionals ,
Information Reports ,
International Data Transfers ,
Personal Data ,
Schrems I & Schrems II ,
U.S. Commerce Department
Data breaches continue to be an unfortunate risk that companies face with increasing frequency. In this podcast, Rebecca Bennett, Stephen Riga, and Justin Tarka discuss data breaches from both a U.S. and EU perspective,...more
12/17/2018
/ Best Practices ,
Breach Notification Rule ,
Cybersecurity ,
Data Breach ,
Data Privacy ,
Data Protection ,
Data Security ,
Employer Liability Issues ,
EU ,
General Data Protection Regulation (GDPR) ,
Hackers ,
Personal Data ,
Personally Identifiable Information ,
Risk Mitigation ,
Third-Party Service Provider
With the General Data Protection Regulation (GDPR), the European Union’s new privacy law having come into effect on 25 May 2018, thousands of companies have been flooding inboxes in recent weeks with emails asking for consent...more
6/5/2018
/ Consent ,
Data Privacy ,
e-Privacy Directive ,
Email ,
EU ,
General Data Protection Regulation (GDPR) ,
Information Commissioner's Office (ICO) ,
Marketing ,
Personal Data ,
Privacy Policy ,
UK
On June 23, 2016, the United Kingdom (UK) will hold an “in or out” referendum to decide whether it should remain a member of the European Union (EU). If the UK chooses to leave the 28-member European Union, one certain...more
4/28/2016
/ Corporate Counsel ,
Employment Discrimination ,
EU ,
EU Data Protection Laws ,
EU-US Privacy Shield ,
General Data Protection Regulation (GDPR) ,
International Data Transfers ,
Member State ,
Personal Data ,
Referendums ,
Travel Restrictions ,
TUPE ,
UK ,
UK Brexit
In parts one and two of this series summarizing data protection law in the United Kingdom, we looked at the data protection principles to which employers must adhere in relation to obtaining, holding, or disposing of personal...more