On 1 July 2024, the European Commission (the ‘Commission’) announced its preliminary findings in an investigation of a leading social media platform, concluding that its ‘pay or consent’ advertising model implemented in the...more
7/23/2024
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Consent ,
Corporate Counsel ,
Data Privacy ,
Data Protection ,
Digital Markets Strategy ,
EU ,
European Commission ,
European Economic Area (EEA) ,
Pay or Play ,
Privacy Laws ,
Social Media ,
Technology Sector
The European Data Protection Board (EDPB) during its 90th plenary session, on 14 February 2024, amongst other things:
- adopted an opinion (the Opinion) on the notion of a controller’s main establishment, including...more
The majority of the provisions of the EU Data Governance Act 2022 (DGA) became fully applicable across the EU on 24 September 2023. This follows the end of the transitional period of 15 months from its entry into force on 23...more
On 10 July 2023, the European Commission adopted the adequacy decision for the EU-U.S. Data Privacy Framework (DPF). This decision enables the free flow of personal data from the EU and three EEA countries (Iceland,...more
The European Commission published its Proposal for a Regulation (on 4 July 2023) laying down additional procedural rules relating to the enforcement of GDPR (the Proposal), which aims to complement the GDPR by specifying the...more
The European Commission issued its non-binding guidance on 1 February 2023 to help providers of online platforms and search engines comply with the requirement of the Digital Services Act (DSA) to publish information on their...more
On 15 September 2022, the European Commission published its proposal for a new Cyber Resilience Act (the Act) that introduces common cybersecurity rules for placing products with digital elements on the EU market. ...more
On 20 January 2022, the European Parliament finalised its position on the draft Digital Services Act (DSA), which was adopted with a broad majority during the plenary session....more
On 1 October 2021, the Council of the European Union (Council) reached agreement about the text of the proposed European Commission Data Governance Act (DGA) and issued a mandate to the EU Presidency to start trilogue...more
On 28 June 2021, just two days before the interim EU-UK data transfer “bridging mechanism” expired under the Trade and Cooperation Agreement, the European Commission (EC) adopted two adequacy decisions for the UK to...more
On 21 April 2021, the European Commission published its Proposal for a Regulation on a European approach for Artificial Intelligence (the draft AI Regulation). The press release can be found here. The proposal differs...more
On 10 February 2021, the European Data Protection Supervisor (EDPS) published its opinions on the European Commission’s proposals for a Digital Services Act and a Digital Markets Act. The EDPS welcomes both legislative...more
After the controversial Google Spain decision (which besides the right to be forgotten also dealt with applicable law rules), the Court of Justice of the EU (CJEU) handed down another important – and yet again rather...more
10/16/2015
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Data Protection ,
Data Protection Authority ,
Debt Collection ,
Edward Snowden ,
EU Data Protection Laws ,
European Commission ,
European Court of Justice (ECJ) ,
Facebook ,
Federal Trade Commission (FTC) ,
Google ,
Hungary ,
International Data Transfers ,
Internet ,
Internet Privacy ,
Ireland ,
Member State ,
Multinationals ,
National Security ,
National Security Agency (NSA) ,
Online Advertisements ,
Personal Data ,
Privacy Laws ,
Real Estate Market ,
Right to Be Forgotten ,
Right to Privacy ,
Safe Harbors ,
Schrems I & Schrems II ,
US-EU Safe Harbor Framework ,
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