No Password Required: Founder of Cybersafe Foundation and an Obama Foundation Africa Leaders Fellow, Who Is Comfortable in the API Kitchen
Will the U.S. Have a GDPR? With Rachael Ormiston of Osano
Compliance with the New EU-US Data Privacy Framework
Life With GDPR - Data Transfer Update
Anonymization and AI: Critical Technologies for Moving eDiscovery Data Across Borders
Digital Trade: Key Trends and Developments to Watch
NGE On Demand: Personal Data Protection Travels: The New Standard Contractual Clause with John Koenigsknecht and David Wheeler
I Wish I Knew What I Know Now: Conversations with AGG on FDA Issues - Data Privacy Issues Life Sciences Companies May Encounter
In-house Roundhouse: Antitrust and the Tech Industry
Cross-Border Data Transfers and the EU-US Data Privacy Tug of War
Privacy Talk | The New Swiss Data Protection Act
Compliance Perspectives: The Privacy and Data Security Track at the 2020 Compliance & Ethics Institute
Update on Global Data Privacy Regulations by John Jackson
Nota Bene Episode 93: Navigating the New Global Cybersecurity Compliance Landscape with Scott Giordano
What's Next after the Schrems II Decision of ECJ
Compliance Perspectives: The End of the Privacy Shield
Nota Bene Episode 89: European Q3 Check In - Merger Clearance and Data Protection Court Rulings and Brexit Updates with Oliver Heinisch
IAPP Global Privacy Summit Recap, Big Questions, and Indiana Jones Analogies
The EU regulation designed to facilitate secondary use of clinical data for research brings benefits for health research, but also poses challenges for companies....more
On 19 March 2025, the European Data Protection Board published an updated procedure for co-operation between EU data protection supervisory authorities approving GDPR Binding Corporate Rules for intra-group transfers of EU...more
The UN General Assembly has adopted a landmark resolution focusing on the safe, secure, and trustworthy use of Artificial Intelligence (AI). This resolution, led by the United States and supported by over 120 Member States,...more
A few weeks ago, on 24 September 2023, the Data Governance Act (Regulation (EU) 2022/868 of the European Parliament and of the Council of 30 May 2022 on European data governance) (“DGA”) came into force. The DGA aims to...more
On July 10, 2023, the European Commission adopted its long-awaited adequacy decision for the EU-U.S. Data Privacy Framework (“Adequacy Decision”). This ends a three-year journey to set up a successor to the EU-U.S. Privacy...more
The French Data Protection Authority imposed a €280,000 fine for GDPR infringements and a €100,000 fine for violation of French cookie rules. On 11 May 2023 the French Data Protection Authority (the CNIL) handed down its...more
The road to the adoption of a lasting framework for EU-U.S data transfers has been anything but smooth. Much like its predecessor, Safe Harbor, the EU-U.S Privacy Shield met its end in 2020 when the Court of Justice of the...more
Welcome to the latest edition of Updata! Updata is an international report produced by Eversheds Sutherland’s dedicated Privacy and Cybersecurity team – it provides you with a compilation of key privacy and cybersecurity...more
The European Union has already enacted several Directives to allow (or mandate) the possibility for companies to access and re-use the data held by EU public administrations in the European Union. However, in many cases this...more
On 27 August 2021, the Swiss Federal Data Protection and Information Commissioner (FDPIC) formally recognised the new EU Standard Contractual Clauses (SCC) for international transfers from Switzerland to third countries if...more
The European Commission recently adopted new standard contractual clauses (SCCs) for transfers of personal data from the EU to “third countries” (the “new SCCs”). In this post, we highlight key developments in the UK’s data...more
The European Commission published a draft Adequacy Decision for the UK on 19 February. That document remains in draft, though it is understood to have successfully cleared the last formal approval stage required....more
Earlier this year, the European Data Protection Board (“EDPB”) issued additional guidance on the application of the General Data Protection Regulation (“GDPR”) in the area of scientific health research. In key takeaways...more
After the political and constitutional upheaval of the last four years that has been Brexit, a trade deal - the EU-UK Trade and Cooperation Agreement - was finally reached between the United Kingdom (UK) and the European...more
The end of the Brexit transition period is upon us. As of 1 January 2021, the UK is a 'third country' under the EU General Data Protection Regulation (GDPR), though the transition period has been extended for up to six months...more
In spite of the holiday period, few will have missed the fact that the UK and the EU concluded a Trade and Cooperation Agreement on 24 December 2020. The Agreement provides a framework under which trade will take place...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 Situation: On October 6, 2020, the Court of Justice of the European Union ("CJEU") held that the national security laws of the United Kingdom, France, and Belgium, which each require that providers of electronic...more
Data centre operators in Europe could benefit from Brexit and have already been preparing for years for precisely this scenario, including by expanding such data centre capacities in Continental Europe....more
The United Kingdom (UK) finally left the EU on 31 January 2020. The withdrawal agreement provides for the UK to continue to be treated largely as an EU member state until the end of the transition period on 31 December 2020,...more
Q1/ Applicable legislation - (a) Have the requirements of the GDPR been addressed by introducing a new law, or by updating existing legislation? New legislation has been passed. ——— (b) Relevant legislation includes: ...more
Q1/ Applicable legislation - (a) Have the requirements of the GDPR been addressed by introducing a new law, or by updating existing legislation? New legislation has been passed. ...more
Q1/ Applicable legislation - (a) Have the requirements of the GDPR been addressed by introducing a new law, or by updating existing legislation? New legislation has been passed. ———...more
Q1/ Applicable legislation - (a) Have the requirements of the GDPR been addressed by introducing a new law, or by updating existing legislation? Old legislation has been updated. ——— (b) Relevant legislation...more
Foreword - European data protection laws have made significant strides in the last two decades. Privacy and data protection laws have undergone dramatic changes over the last 20 years, in a race to keep up with technology....more