General Data Protection Regulation (GDPR), Data Privacy, Biden Administration

Data in the Balance: Political Influence on EU-U.S. Data Transfers

Ogletree, Deakins, Nash, Smoak & Stewart,... on 4/4/2025

In politically uncertain times, is your organisation’s data transfer compliance unquestionable? The EU-U.S. Data Privacy Framework (DPF) serves as a useful mechanism for transatlantic data transfers, and it can assist...more

Is the Third Time the Charm? The EU-US Data Privacy Framework

Bass, Berry & Sims PLC on 7/24/2023

On July 10, the European Commission issued an adequacy decision on the EU-US Data Privacy Framework (DPF), ensuring adequate protection for personal data transferred from the European Union to the United States. This decision...more

Client Alert: European Commission’s Adequacy Decision Sets Standards for US Companies to Receive Personal Data from EU Under the...

Neal, Gerber & Eisenberg LLP on 7/13/2023

On July 10, 2023, the European Commission concluded that the US ensures an adequate level of protection for personal data transferred from the European Union to US companies under the new EU-US Data Privacy Framework. Based...more

New EU-US Data Privacy Framework

Mintz - Privacy & Cybersecurity Viewpoints on 12/14/2022

The European Commission has published its long-awaited draft of the new EU-US Data Privacy Framework, available here. The Data Privacy Framework will replace the Privacy Shield decision that was invalidated in July 2020 by...more

President Biden Issues Executive Order Providing for New EU-U.S. Data Privacy Framework

Ogletree, Deakins, Nash, Smoak & Stewart,... on 10/26/2022

On October 7, 2022, President Biden signed Executive Order (EO) 14086, “Enhancing Safeguards for United States Signals Intelligence Activities,” which provides a new framework for legal data transfers between the European...more

President Biden Signs Long-Awaited Data Transfer Executive Order

Akin Gump Strauss Hauer & Feld LLP on 10/20/2022

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

Biden Executive Order Seeks to Solidify European Union-U.S. Data Privacy Framework

White & Case LLP on 10/20/2022

After a two year absence of a legal framework for transferring personal data from the EU to the U.S., President Biden signed an Executive Order on Enhancing Safeguards for United States Signals Intelligence Activities (the...more

President Biden Enacts New Executive Order On EU-US Data Flow Agreement; EU Adequacy Decision Forthcoming

Benesch on 10/11/2022

The Executive Order hopes to address what had been shortcomings in the previous Safe Harbor and Privacy Shield programs that were struck down by EU courts in 2015 and 2020 respectively. On October 7, 2022, President...more

As States and Nations Continue to Enact Comprehensive Data Privacy Legislation, Pressure Mounts on the U.S. to Pass a Competing...

Royer Cooper Cohen Braunfeld LLC on 6/22/2021

Global data privacy legislation has steadily advanced over the past several years, with one of the most comprehensive and well-known laws being the General Data Protection Regulation (GDPR), governing personal data...more

Hindsight is 2020: Data Privacy Law Year in Review

Hinshaw & Culbertson - Privacy, Cyber & AI... on 1/5/2021

A year full of firsts, 2020 introduced a number of new consumer data privacy protection laws. While the California Consumer Privacy Act (CCPA) is one of the most well-known, other states have also adopted their own privacy...more

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