American companies and others outside the European Union (EU) pursuing large M&A transactions and public tenders in the EU’s single market must now comply with a new regulation. Effective July 12, 2023, the Foreign Subsidies...more
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Patch Adobe ColdFusion Vulnerabilities Being Exploited in the Wild ASAP -
Adobe has issued alerts on three vulnerabilities affecting its ColdFusion product. The first alert, issued on July 11, 2023,...more
7/24/2023
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On July 10, the European Commission (EC) published its data adequacy decision for the new EU-U.S. Data Privacy Framework (EU-U.S. DPF). This means that companies can transfer personal data from EU countries and from Iceland,...more
President Biden recently signed an executive order establishing the implementation of the new EU-U.S. Data Privacy Framework, which would provide for the possibility of the lawful transfer of personal data from the European...more
11/4/2022
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The Irish Data Protection Commission (DPC) fined Twitter 450,000 euros (about US$546,000) for failing to timely notify the Irish DPC within the required 72 hours of discovering a Q4 2018 breach involving a bug in its Android...more
1/5/2021
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Last week, the High Court of Ireland submitted eleven questions to the Court of Justice for the European Union (CJEU) to consider about the personal data transfer regime between the European Union (EU) and the United States....more
As we approach calendar year end, traditionally the busiest period of the year for mergers and acquisitions, it is worth revisiting whether our existing competition law framework can and does properly assess the market power...more
Japan and the European Union announced an agreement in principle on major components of a substantial free trade deal on the eve of the recent G20 summit in Hamburg. This free trade deal rivals NAFTA in scope and impact, as...more
The GDPR will apply as of May 25, 2018. It provides a single set of very innovative rules directly applicable in the entire European Union (EU), without the need for national implementing measures—which means that any...more
In 2016, new privacy, cybersecurity and/or data security legislation passed or became effective in a number of countries, some adopting data security measures for the first time. Several countries adopted cybersecurity...more
Last July, the United States and the European Union agreed on a new framework to allow for the transfer of Europeans’ personal data to the United States. This new framework, known as Privacy Shield, replaced the Safe Harbor...more
Transfers of personal data from most European countries to the US have been exposed to legal attack since October 2015, when privacy campaigner Max Schrems successfully sued the Irish authorities over data transfers made by...more
As we previously reported, this February, United States (U.S.) and European Union (EU) negotiators announced the “U.S.-EU Privacy Shield” as a replacement to the U.S. Safe Harbor. Many U.S. companies relied on the Safe Harbor...more
The General Data Protection Regulation (GDPR) was recently approved by the 28 member states of the Council of European Union. By plenary vote, the European Parliament approved GDPR on April 14.
The GDPR will take effect...more
The European Union (EU) General Data Protection Regulation (GDPR) is one step closer to replacing the EU’s 1995 data privacy directive, known as 95/46/EU. In late June, the Council of Ministers from the EU member states...more