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DOJ Rule Implementing Executive Order 14117 Regulating Cross-Border Data Transfers Takes Effect

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DOJ rule to implement Executive Order 14117, which restricts the exchange of sensitive personal data with certain “countries of concern,” took effect April 8. The order, which was issued under the prior administration,...more

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DOJ Issues Rule Addressing Threat Posed by Foreign Adversaries’ Access to Americans’ Sensitive Personal Data

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On Friday, December 27, 2024, the Justice Department issued a final rule to address “urgent national security risks posed by access to U.S. sensitive personal and government-related data from countries of concern and covered...more

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DOJ Issues Notice of Proposed Rulemaking to Restrict Flow of Bulk Sensitive Personal Data to China and other Countries of Concern

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On October 29, 2024, the Department of Justice (“DOJ”) published its Notice of Proposed Rulemaking (“NPRM”) to implement President Biden’s Executive Order 14117, “Preventing Access to Americans’ Bulk Sensitive Personal Data...more

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Best Practices to Ensure Compliance with Upcoming Data Protection Regulations

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The Department of Justice ("DOJ") is wasting no time in implementing the new cyber-security Executive Order (the EO), signed on February 28, 2024. As explained in our April 2024 blog post, the EO aims to portect Americans’...more

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Client Alert: New Laws Prohibit Certain Data Transfers to China, Russia, Iran, and other Foreign Adversaries of the U.S.

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In addition to its well-publicized move to prohibit more than 150 million Americans from posting embarrassing dance videos of themselves on TikTok (at least while it is Chinese-owned), the U.S. federal government recently...more

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President Biden Issues Executive Order Restricting Bulk Transfers of Sensitive Personal and US Government-Related Data

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On 28 February 2024, President Biden issued Executive Order 14117 of February 28, 2024, Preventing Access to Americans’ Bulk Sensitive Personal Data and United States Government-Related Data by Countries of Concern (EO) aimed...more

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DOJ Kicks Off Work to Regulate Foreign Access to Sensitive Personal Data Under New EO

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On March 5, 2024, the Department of Justice (DOJ) issued an Advance Notice of Proposed Rulemaking (ANPRM) regarding Access to Americans’ Bulk Sensitive Personal Data and Government-Related Data by Countries of Concern. The...more

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President’s Executive Order Seeks to Protect Certain “Bulk Sensitive Personal Data” from “Countries of Concern”

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On February 28, 2024, President Biden issued an Executive Order (EO) seeking to protect the sensitive personal data of Americans from potential exploitation by particular countries. The EO acknowledges that access to...more

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Executive Order to Prevent Access to Americans' Bulk Sensitive Personal Data and Government-Related Data by Countries of Concern

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On February 28, 2024, the Biden Administration issued Executive Order (EO) 13873, focused on restricting certain transactions involving Americans' personal data, as well as sensitive government data, to specific countries....more

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How President Biden’s Executive Order Aims to Protect Your Personal Data from Countries of Concern

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On February 28, 2024, President Biden announced he was signing an Executive Order intended to protect Americans’ sensitive personal data. The Executive Order focuses on large-scale transfers of (i) genomic data, (ii)...more

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Biden Administration Announces New Measures to Safeguard Americans’ Sensitive Personal Data

On February 28, 2024, the Biden administration announced new cybersecurity-related measures, including an executive order (EO) and advance notice of proposed rulemaking (ANPRM), intended to address the bulk flow of Americans’...more

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Biden Executive Order to Protect Americans’ Sensitive Personal Data and Related Rulemaking Could Impose Significant Restrictions...

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On February 28, 2024, President Biden signed Executive Order 14117, “Preventing Access to Americans’ Bulk Sensitive Personal Data and U.S. Government-Related Data by Countries of Concern” (the EO), under the authority of the...more

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[Webinar] EU / U.S. Data Transfers – Update - November 1st, 10:30 am - 11:30 am EST

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Join us for a webinar where we will focus on the details of the recently finalised and published Executive Order to Implement the European Union-U.S. Data Privacy Framework. Alongside Alex Brown of UK-headquartered...more

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President Biden Signs Long-Awaited Data Transfer Executive Order

Key Points - President Biden has signed the long-awaited executive order implementing U.S. commitments to the new successor agreement to the Privacy Shield, the EU-U.S. Data Privacy Framework—a historic step in respect of...more

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EU-U.S. and UK-U.S. Data Transfer Deals Advance with White House Executive Order

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A new legal mechanism to allow for transfers of personal data between the EU and the U.S. is now advancing after an October 7th, 2022 Executive Order was issued by U.S. President Biden (the “Executive Order”). The new...more

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EU To Review New EU-US Data Transfers Framework

President Biden signed a new executive order on Friday, with a framework that seeks to replace the existing Privacy Shield program. That program was found to be an invalid mechanism for transferring personal data between the...more

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Executive Order on EU-U.S. Data Sharing Signed

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On October 7, 2022, President Biden signed the Enhancing Safeguards for United States Signals Intelligence Activities Executive Order (Executive Order or EO), which implements the EU-U.S. Data Privacy Framework (EU-U.S. DPF)....more

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Biden Signs Executive Order Implementing Privacy-Shield Replacement for EU-US Data Transfers

Today, October 7, 2022, President Joe Biden signed an executive order implementing a new privacy framework for data being shared between Europe and the United States. The new framework is called the “Trans-Atlantic Data...more

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European Data Protection Board Issues Recommendations for Exports of Personal Data From the European Economic Area

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As many organizations continue to struggle with the fallout from the July 2020 Schrems II decision from the European Court of Justice (“CJEU”), in November, the European Data Protection Board (“EDPB”) published two pieces of...more

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