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Sheppard Mullin Richter & Hampton LLP

Don’t Forget the EU: Italy Issued First GenAI Fine of €15 Million Alleging GDPR Violations 

At the end of 2024 the Italian Data Protection Authority issued a 15 million euro fine in the first generative AI-related case brought under GDPR. According to Garante (the Italian authority), OpenAI trained ChatGPT with...more

Pillsbury - Consumer Protection Dispatch

GDPR Enforcement: Lessons from Recent Data Privacy Penalties

Recent decisions by the French data protection authority (CNIL) have highlighted the importance of GDPR compliance, particularly in the areas of data retention, consent for processing sensitive personal data, and marketing...more

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Netherlands Imposes Record-Breaking Data Privacy Fine on Uber: 4 Key Steps Companies Can Take to Ensure Compliance

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Dutch data privacy officials recently imposed a staggering penalty on Uber – €290 million ($324 million) – for allegedly breaching the European Union’s comprehensive data privacy and security law. This groundbreaking fine is...more

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Ireland: Increased Regulatory Convergence of AI and Data Protection: X Suspends Training of AI Chatbot With EU User Data After...

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The Irish Data Protection Commission (DPC) has welcomed X’s agreement to suspend its processing of certain personal data for the purpose of training its AI chatbot tool, Grok. This comes after the DPC issued suspension...more

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European Commission publishes second report on application of GDPR

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On 25 July 2024, the EU Commission published its second report on the application of the GDPR (the ‘Second Report’), following its first report published in 2020....more

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AI Watch: Global regulatory tracker - Italy

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Italy plays a prominent role in EU AI Act negotiations and engages in political discussions for future laws. Laws/Regulations directly regulating AI (the “AI Regulations”) Currently, there are no specific laws,...more

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DSIR Deeper Dive: Absent Legislation, Privacy Regulators Offer Guidance on AI

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By now, many of us are using AI, advising others about how to use AI, and waiting for some legislative miracle to give us some guardrails for what we can or cannot be doing with AI. A lot of effort has been put into tracking...more

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Building a common EU and UK BCR framework

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Hogan Lovells and Privacy Laws & Business have submitted a joint memorandum to data protection leaders in the EU and the UK advocating for a common framework for Binding Corporate Rules (BCR). The memorandum, submitted to the...more

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President Biden Enacts New Executive Order On EU-US Data Flow Agreement; EU Adequacy Decision Forthcoming

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The Executive Order hopes to address what had been shortcomings in the previous Safe Harbor and Privacy Shield programs that were struck down by EU courts in 2015 and 2020 respectively. On October 7, 2022, President...more

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Switzerland Publishes Adequacy List of Countries Receiving Personal Data Transfers

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The Swiss government has drafted a proposed list of countries that are approved to receive personal data transfers out of Switzerland. Japan and South Korea are excluded from the current and proposed lists, requiring...more

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[Webcast Transcript] You’ve Got to Move It: Data Protection and Privacy with Cross-Border Transfers

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...This session, led by industry-acknowledged experts in areas ranging from data protection and privacy to data transfer and legal discovery, provided a professional forum for the explanation of the best approaches,...more

Orrick, Herrington & Sutcliffe LLP

8 Things You Need to Know About United Kingdom (UK) International Data Transfers

Update: UK international data transfer agreement and UK addendum to the EU standard contractual clauses now in force In February, the Information Commissioner’s Office (“ICO”), the United Kingdom (UK) data protection...more

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International Data Protection Update - Winter 2021/2022

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This Update highlights some of the international data protection issues that caught our attention and the attention of our clients over the winter, including updates on European data transfers and cookie compliance,...more

Skadden, Arps, Slate, Meagher & Flom LLP

Privacy & Cybersecurity Update - February 2022

In this month’s Privacy & Cybersecurity Update, we examine the Illinois Supreme Court’s decision in a case involving workers compensation and the state’s Biometric Information Privacy Act, U.K. data transfer regimes before...more

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CJEU issues opinion in favour of allowing consumer organisations to bring representative actions against GDPR infringement

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On 2 December 2021, the Court of Justice of the European Union (CJEU) published the Advocate General’s (AG) opinion in case C-319/20 (Facebook Ireland) (the AG Opinion) relating to the issue of whether Member State law may...more

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Voice Analysis Complicates Personal Privacy

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Most biometric readings require your presence in the same space as the measuring tools.  Facial recognition, retinal capture, fingerprints or hand geometry, even biomarked scents are measured in close physical proximity. The...more

Eversheds Sutherland (US) LLP

Updata: Your quarterly privacy & cybersecurity update - April to June 2021

Welcome to the latest edition of Updata - the international update from Eversheds Sutherland’s dedicated Privacy and Cybersecurity team. Updata provides you with a compilation of privacy and cybersecurity regulatory and...more

McDermott Will & Emery

[Webinar] Mitigating Risk Exposure Under Evolving Global Cookies Regulations - May 19th, 12:00 pm - 1:00 pm EDT

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The regulation of cookies and similar tracking technologies is rapidly evolving, not only in the European Union and United Kingdom but also in the United States and globally. If you have visited a website recently, you might...more

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International Data Protection Update – First Quarter 2021

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This quarterly update highlights some of the international data protection issues that have caught our attention, and the attention of our clients, in the past three months....more

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Spanish DPA shakes the privacy status quo in Spain – highest fines yet on personal data

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The Spanish Data Protection Agency (“Spanish DPA”) decided to start 2021 the same way it ended 2020: by imposing the highest fines to date (EUR 5,000,000 and 6,000,000) to two large Spanish financial entities. ...more

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Nach Schrems-II-Urteil: Fragebogen als Arbeitshilfe auch für Arbeitgeber

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Das Portal fragdenstaat.de (Link) hat einen Fragebogen der Hamburgischen Datenschutzbehörde veröffentlicht, mit Hilfe dessen die Behörde die Umsetzung des Schrems-II-Urteils exemplarisch am Einsatz von Office 365 überprüft....more

Akin Gump Strauss Hauer & Feld LLP

European Data Protection Board Forms Two New Taskforces to Address Schrems II Aftermath

On Friday September 4, 2020, the European Data Protection Board (EDPB), a body consisting of representatives of all the Data Protection Authorities (DPAs) in the European Economic Area, announced that it had formed two new...more

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Belgian Data Protection Authority publishes guidance concerning Schrems II

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The Belgian Data Protection Authority (DPA) has published brief guidance concerning the European Court of Justice (ECJ) judgement on the European Commission’s adequacy decision provided by the EU-US data Privacy Shield...more

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Schrems Strikes Again: Battery of New Data Privacy Complaints Raise Compliance Questions for EU-U.S. Data Transfers

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Barely one month after the Court of Justice of the European Union (CJEU) issued its Schrems II decision striking down the EU-U.S. Privacy Shield Framework (Privacy Shield), Austrian privacy activist Max Schrems has filed 101...more

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The Logical Conclusion to an Illogical Conclusion: Schrems May Forbid Data Commerce from the EU to the US

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The world just received the newest pronouncement from the EU Court of Justice, in a decision known as Schrems II, and the legal opinion extends the data war declared on the United States in the first Schrems decision....more

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