Life with GDPR - Meta Fined €405 million by Irish Data Protection Commission
Right of erasure (or “right to be forgotten”) has been selected by the European Data Protection Board as its priority enforcement topic for 2025. This work is being done under the “Coordinated Enforcement Framework” or “CEF.”...more
Katten's Privacy, Data and Cybersecurity Quick Clicks is a monthly newsletter highlighting the latest news and legal developments involving privacy, data and cybersecurity issues across the globe....more
In a landmark judgment delivered on 29 January 2025, the General Court of the European Union has affirmed the European Data Protection Board‘s (EDPB) authority to require national supervisory authorities to broaden their...more
On January 29, 2025, the General Court of the European Union delivered a significant judgment concerning the powers and competences of the European Data Protection Board ("EDPB"). The case involved the Data Protection...more
On October 9, 2024, the European Commission (the Commission) published a report on the first periodic review of the adequacy decision of July 10, 2023. This decision determined that the EU-U.S. Data Privacy Framework (the...more
2023 continues to be a busy year for European data protection authorities. Following its release of the Irish Data Protection Commission’s (DPC’s) binding decisions in cases against Facebook and Instagram, the European Data...more
On January 19, the Irish Data Protection Commission (DPC) announced the conclusion of an inquiry into the data processing practices of a U.S.-based messaging service’s Ireland operations and fined the messaging service €5.5...more
Best Practices for the Virginia Consumer Data Protection Act - The Virginia Consumer Data Protection Act (VCDA) Working Group of the Joint Commission on Technology and Science released its final report on best practices...more
Sovereign Wealth Fund Investment in the Global Healthcare Industry - Sovereign Wealth Funds (SWF) seek out investments that are resilient, conducive to their aims and objectives, and reasonably free from market...more
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
In this month's edition, we examine the Court of Justice of the European Union's decision invalidating the EU-U.S. Privacy Shield framework, as well as the U.S. government's response to the decision. We also examine two...more