NGE On Demand: Personal Data Protection Travels: The New Standard Contractual Clause with John Koenigsknecht and David Wheeler
Cross-Border Data Transfers and the EU-US Data Privacy Tug of War
What's Next after the Schrems II Decision of ECJ
Compliance Perspectives: The End of the Privacy Shield
The UK has approved the UK-U.S. Data Bridge facilitating flows of personal data to U.S. entities that have self-certified to the EU-U.S. Data Privacy Framework (‘DPF’), provided that those entities extend their DPF...more
On July 10, 2023, the European Commission announced that it had adopted its adequacy decision for the EU-U.S. Data Privacy Framework (EU-U.S. DPF). This long-awaited decision means that for the first time since the EU-U.S...more
Key Point: The European Commission has adopted an adequacy decision for the EU-U.S. Data Privacy Framework, which allows certain businesses to transfer data from the EU to the U.S. without the need for additional transfer...more
The U.S. Secretary of Commerce, Gina Raimondo, issued a statement on July 3, 2023, announcing completion of commitments by the U.S. for implementing the Trans-Atlantic Data Privacy Framework (the "Framework"). The Framework...more
On July 3, 2023, U.S. Secretary of Commerce Gina Raimondo announced that the U.S. fulfilled its commitments that were prerequisites to the implementation of the EU-U.S. Data Privacy Framework (Framework). These steps are...more
Since the European Court of Justice (ECJ) declared the “Safe Harbour” agreement—which had permitted U.S. companies to comply with EU restrictions on the transfer of personal data outside the EU—invalid in October 2015,...more
As we wrote in July 2020, the European Court of Justice issued a landmark decision that invalidated the Privacy Shield as untenable under the European General Data Protection Regulation (GDPR). The decision sparked...more
President Biden recently signed the Executive Order on Enhancing Safeguards for United States Signals Intelligence Activities and supporting regulations (collectively, the “Executive Order”), enhancing privacy and civil...more
On October 7, 2022, President Biden signed an Executive Order on Enhancing Safeguards for United States Signals Intelligence Activities (“EO”). The EO lays ground for the long-awaited successor to the EU-U.S. Privacy...more
Privacy law 101 includes a simple but important basic concept that organizations may only use personal information they collect for what they say they will, and how they say they will. According to the Federal Trade...more
On 25 March 2022, President Biden and the President of the European Commission (“EC”) von der Leyen announced that the U.S. and EU reached an agreement in principle on a new Trans-Atlantic Data Privacy framework for...more
In June, the European Commission published the final version of a new set of standard contractual clauses (SCCs) that can be used to comply with the EU’s General Data Protection Regulation (the “GDPR”). These clauses are of...more
NGE Corporate & Securities partner John Koenigsknecht recently interviewed Data Privacy & Information Governance partner David Wheeler about the new standard contractual clauses and the complex task of assessing and...more
The guidance outlines how organisations should approach international transfers and confirms examples of supplemental measures that can be adopted to ensure ongoing compliance and seeking to de-mystify earlier uncertainty. ...more
Am vergangenen Freitag, den 04. April 2021, hat die EU-Kommission dem internationalen Datenverkehr ein wichtiges Update verpasst: die neuen EU-Standardvertragsklauseln (Standard Contractual Clauses; SCC) wurden...more
On June 4th, 2021, the European Commission adopted and published a new set of so-called standard contractual clauses (“SCCs”) providing a legal basis for international transfers of personal data from the EU/EEA to third...more
Earlier today, the European Commission approved and adopted a new version of the Standard Contractual Clauses (SCCs) that revises how data may be transferred by including additional privacy and legal safeguards. The remodeled...more
In an increasingly datafied and globalized world, businesses have become reliant upon the seamless flow of cross-border data transfers. Transatlantic data flows play an important role in the U.S. economy. The U.S. and the...more
In 2016, European companies doing business in the US were able to breathe a sigh of relief. The European Commission deemed the Privacy Shield to be an adequate privacy protection. For the next half a decade, this shield, as...more
Is it hyperbolic to say that never before have we seen a quieter, yet more anticipated and welcome end to a year than in 2020? For some, 2020 is a year the sooner forgotten, the better. In data privacy and security law, a lot...more
Concerns are mounting for companies around the world as they consider their ability to transfer data from the EU following the recent decision by the Court of Justice of the European Union in Data Protection Commissioner v....more
Melina Efstathiou of Eversheds joins Bill and Rob to discuss this summer’s surprise decision by the European Court of Justice invalidating the EU-US Privacy Shield. The three will also dive into the current state of other...more
The EDPB has issued recommendations concerning how organisations may lawfully transfer personal data from Europe to “third countries” (e.g., the U.S. and currently the UK from 1.1.2021) in light of the recent Schrems II...more
This past July, a decision by the European Court of Justice (ECJ) struck down the European Union-United States Privacy Shield framework (EU-U.S. Privacy Shield), one mechanism through which companies could transfer personal...more
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