Life with GDPR - Meta Fined €405 million by Irish Data Protection Commission
The draft guidelines provide further clarification to the EDPB’s interpretation of legitimate interests, and suggest a potential divergence with the UK ICO....more
The EDPB launched a website auditing tool to help legal and technical auditors at data protection authorities check whether websites are compliant with the law on 29 January 2024. Controllers and processors can also use the...more
Areas of interest include anonymisation, “recognised legitimate interests”, and the ICO’s role. The UK Data Protection and Digital Information Bill (the Bill) sets out the government’s proposals for reforming the current...more
The dust has settled on the new EU standard contractual clauses for cross-border data transfers (“New SCCs”), but confusion still reins on how the New SCCs cover data transfers and what companies need to do to take advantage...more
Companies have three months to prepare to use the latest standard contractual clauses for new data transfers, and 18 months to migrate existing arrangements. On 4 June 2021, the European Commission released its...more
The European Commission’s long-awaited updates to the Standard Contractual Clauses (“SCCs”) have arrived. Data protection lawyers globally have eagerly anticipated these changes, which are necessary to address a legal...more
The European Commission has published draft updated standard contractual clauses in light of the Schrems II decision. On 12 November 2020, the European Commission (the Commission) published a draft implementing decision,...more
The Information Commissioner's Office (ICO) has issued a statement confirming that data protection will not stop the need for businesses to share information quickly, or adapt the way they work to face the unprecedented...more