This Week in FCPA-Episode 80, The Last Jedi Edition
Effective July 10, 2023, the EU-U.S. Data Privacy Framework (“EU-U.S. DPF”) replaced the invalidated EU-U.S. Privacy Shield framework (“Privacy Shield”). Participating U.S. organizations can now receive personal data...more
The Advocate General (AG) Pikamäe of the Court of Justice of the European Union (CJEU) issued his opinions in three cases concerning the credit rating agency SCHUFA Holding AG (SCHUFA) on 16 March 2023....more
On Friday, February 24, the Colorado Secretary of State published “final” rules for the Colorado Privacy Act. While these rules are similar to “Version 3” of the draft rules, published by the Attorney General’s Office in...more
The French data privacy authority (DPA) announced that it will fine Discord, Inc. 800,000 euros under the General Data Protection Regulation (GDPR). Discord is a social messaging platform popular with gamers, technology...more
The DPA of Uruguay, one of the only countries recognized as “adequate” destinations for cross border data transfers from the European Union – has issued updated guidance on the content of cross border data transfer agreements...more
Keypoint: Entities that use Article 28 data processing agreements should closely review the EDBP’s draft guidelines and modify their data processing agreement as necessary. In September, the European Data Protection Board...more
The fallout from the Schrems II judgment continued on Tuesday with an announcement from Switzerland’s Federal Data Protection and Information Commissioner (FDPIC) that the Swiss-US Privacy Shield regime “does not provide an...more
On April 21, The European Data Protection Board (EDPB) published guidelines related to use of data for fighting the COVID-19 health crisis....more
Why does this topic matter to organisations? Under the Directive, organisations were obliged to deal with a separate DPA for each Member State whose laws apply to them. This meant that businesses faced a range of...more
Why does this topic matter to organisations? Under the GDPR, the concept of a "processor" has not changed. Any entity that was a processor under the Directive likely continues to be a processor under the GDPR. However,...more
The President of the Personal Data Protection Office in Poland (Polish DPA) imposed a fine amounting to PLN 943,470 (approximately EUR 220,000; approximately USD 245,977) for failing to fulfil the company’s transparency...more
The General Data Protection Regulation (GDPR) is a new data privacy and security law in Europe that will go into force on May 25, 2018. Every organization that does business with EU customers, regardless of the home base of...more
New York Attorney General Announces Record Number of Data Breach Notices in 2016 - On March 21, 2017, the New York Attorney General's Office announced that it received 1,300 reported data breaches in 2016—a 60 percent...more
Under section 56 of the Data Protection Act 1998 (DPA), it is now a criminal offence for any person or organisation to require an individual to submit a ‘subject access request’ (i.e. the right for an individual to access any...more