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McCarter & English, LLP

FTC Surveillance Pricing Study Finds Personal Data Is Used to Set Individualized Consumer Prices and Generate Higher Profits for...

On January 17, 2025, the US Federal Trade Commission (FTC) released the preliminary observations and findings from its ongoing study of surveillance pricing. According to the FTC, surveillance pricing occurs when companies...more

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Will This Be on the Exam? FTC Staff Issues Two Initial Reports on Surveillance Pricing

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On January 17, 2025, the staff at the Federal Trade Commission (FTC) released their first results from the FTC’s Surveillance Pricing market study. The FTC staff reports, including both a “staff perspective” and an “issue...more

Robinson+Cole Data Privacy + Security Insider

Privacy Tip #380 – Tips + Tools for Protecting Online Privacy

During the last Privacy Law class of the semester, we discuss Privacy and Emerging Technology. My students continue to learn about the collection, use, disclosure, and monetization of consumers’ data, and continue to be...more

Latham & Watkins LLP

EU-US Data Privacy Framework Goes Live: What Are the Practical Implications?

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The new framework provides an additional route for personal data transfers from the EEA to the US. On 10 July 2023, the European Commission (EC) took the final step to enable businesses to start relying on the new EU-US...more

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

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

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

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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

Hogan Lovells

New Hope for EU-US Data Transfer Mechanism Following White House Executive Order

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The White House has issued its Executive Order on Enhancing Safeguards for United States Signal Intelligence Activities (“EO”), which provides additional due process protections to the use of surveillance mechanisms by U.S....more

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Update on the EU-US Data Privacy Framework

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On October 7, 2022, President Biden signed an Executive Order (“EO”) implementing the new trans-Atlantic EU-U.S. Data Privacy Framework (“EU-U.S. DPF”). The EU-U.S. DPF, previously announced by President Biden and the...more

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President Biden Signs “Privacy Shield” Executive Order to Address European Concerns Over Surveillance Practices in the United...

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On October 7, 2022, President Biden signed an Executive Order on “Enhancing Safeguards for United States Signals Intelligence Activities,” establishing new privacy safeguards and oversight mechanisms for foreign intelligence...more

Womble Bond Dickinson

New Privacy Paradigm Time

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Why don’t our new privacy laws really protect our privacy?  Are we going about this the wrong way? The topic was raised in the recent Capital Forum of state and federal enforcement agencies by FTC Chair Lena Kahn, who...more

Spirit Legal

Tesla-Fahrzeuge sind wie Elefanten - umweltfreundlich und mit einem langen Daten-Gedächtnis ausgestattet

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Zusammenfassung des Gutenachtens über die Datenverarbeitung und den Datenschutz bei Tesla Fahrzeugen vom 19.10.2020 - „Tesla-Fahrzeuge sind dauernd aktive Datenschleudern mit Langzeitgedächtnis.“ (Weichert, Gutachten über...more

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They might be seen as green, but Teslas are like elephants – they never forget

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Summary of expert opinion on data processing and data protection in Tesla vehicles of 19 October 2020 - “Teslas continuously gush data and have a long memory” (translation of Weichert, Gutachten über Datenverarbeitung und...more

Robinson+Cole Data Privacy + Security Insider

Cities Consider Banning the Use of Facial Recognition Technology

In the footsteps of San Francisco’s ban of the use of facial recognition technology, the cities of Somerville, Massachusetts, Oakland, California, and Berkeley, California are considering banning the use of facial recognition...more

Perkins Coie

Proposed Washington Privacy Act Tracks GDPR and CCPA Protections and Emphasizes Facial Recognition

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Washington state has joined the growing ranks of states considering data privacy legislation in the wake of the European General Data Privacy Regulation (GDPR) and the California Consumer Privacy Act (CCPA). Senate Bill 5376,...more

King & Spalding

Agreement “In Principle” On New US-EU Safe Harbor Pact

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The European Union announced on October 26, 2015, that it had reached an agreement “in principle” with the United States on a new transatlantic data-sharing pact—though a final agreement between the parties is likely still...more

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Senate Passes Legislation To Ease Sharing Of Cybersecurity Threat Information

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On October 27, 2015, the Senate passed S. 754, the Cybersecurity Information Sharing Act of 2015 (“CISA”), which addresses how companies can share cyber threat information with the federal government. The legislation aims to...more

McDermott Will & Emery

Focus on China - October 2015

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Welcome to the third issue of Focus on China Compliance for 2015. According to the FCPA Blog’s October 2015 Corporate Investigations List, China leads the countries reported to be involved in FCPA investigations with 29...more

Mintz - Privacy & Cybersecurity Viewpoints

EU Round-UP: Safe Harbor 2.0 and Upcoming National Challenges

EU Commissioner Vera Jourova recently announced in a speech to the EU Parliament’s Committee on Civil Liberties, Justice and Home Affairs (LIBE) that the Commission and the US have made substantial progress in finalizing a...more

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European Union and United States Agree in Principle on New Safe Harbor Framework

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On Monday, October 26, European Union Justice Commissioner Vera Jourová delivered a speech before the European Parliament in which she noted that the European Union and the United States had agreed “in principle” on a new...more

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Safe Harbor Update: Safe Harbor Sequel Coming Soon?

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As we wrote on October 6, 2015, the Court of Justice of the European Union (CJEU) announced its invalidation of the U.S.-EU Safe Harbor program as a legally valid pathway for transferring personal data of European Union (EU)...more

Proskauer - Privacy & Cybersecurity

A German DPA Questions the Validity of the Use of Consent and Model Contractual Clauses to Transfer Personal Data to the U.S., and...

Just one week after the milestone decision rendered by the CJEU to invalidate the Safe Harbor program established 15 years ago between the U.S. and the EU to facilitate the transfer of personal data from the EU to the U.S., a...more

Seyfarth Shaw LLP

No Safe Harbour? Immediate Implications for Employers

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A landmark decision of the European Court of Justice (ECJ) has held that companies may no longer rely on “Safe Harbour” to justify transferring personal data from the European Union to the US, because the US Government has a...more

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Article 29 Working Party Calls for Political Action

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In a concise statement, the Article 29 Working Party (WP29), a consortium of European Data Protection Authorities (DPAs), released a position paper today about the landmark ruling of the European Court of Justice in...more

Foley Hoag LLP - Security, Privacy and the...

EU Gives US Until “The End of January” to Find Safe Harbor Solution or Enforcement Could Begin

On October 16, 2015, EU authorities gave the U.S. and European Union until the end of January 2016 6o find a replacement for the former US-EU Safe Harbor regime, or enforcement actions could begin. The full statement of the...more

Proskauer - Privacy & Cybersecurity

Article 29 Working Party Issues Statement Following Landmark CJEU Safe Harbor Ruling

Since the Article 29 Working Party on the Protection of Individuals (“WP29”) announced last week that it would it shortly issue a statement on the landmark CJEU ruling invalidating the Safe Harbor Decision (Schrems v. Data...more

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