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Venable LLP

Smoothing Privacy Contracting: Six Ways to Reduce Friction in Data Processing Agreements

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Negotiating a data processing agreement (DPA) is typically a necessary step when engaging vendors that handle personal data. However, these negotiations have become time consuming and complex, given the evolving privacy...more

A&O Shearman

Zooming In on AI - #6: AI under financial regulations in the U.S., EU and U.K.

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Many governments are grappling with the question of how to regulate artificial intelligence to ensure it is adopted safely and used responsibly without hampering innovation. Governments have generally indicated similar...more

McDermott Will & Emery

[Webinar] PIPL - A Review of China’s New Privacy Law and Insights Into Achieving Compliance and Managing Risks - November 18th,...

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China recently enacted its Personal Information Privacy Law (PIPL), which came into effect November 1, 2021. PIPL has global reach and broadly regulates entities of all industries that process the personal data of Chinese...more

Society of Corporate Compliance and Ethics...

[Webinar] Effective Use of Privacy Impact Assessments - September 13th, 12:00 pm - 1:30 pm CDT

Learning Objectives: - What is a PIA and a DPIA? - Who should instigate assessments? - How and when to use assessments? - The relationship between assessments and privacy by design, and legal grounds for processing...more

Proskauer Rose LLP

Data Protection & Privacy Laws 2021

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A heightened risk for cyberattacks and data breaches calls for companies to remain diligent as they navigate a patchwork of federal, state, local and sector-specific privacy and data protection laws, regulations and guidance....more

Hogan Lovells

Nueva guía del Comité Europeo de Protección de Datos sobre (co)responsable y encargado bajo el RGPD

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Aunque los conceptos de responsable y encargado del tratamiento han sido ampliamente estudiados y analizados en el pasado, el Comité Europeo de Protección de Datos ha publicado recientemente una guía en la que, además de...more

Hinshaw & Culbertson LLP

GDPR and the Uniform Foreign Country Money Judgments Recognition Act

You are an American company. While you sell product or otherwise interact with Europe, and thereby collect personal information about European residents, you have no assets or facilities on that continent. Nonetheless, you...more

Orrick, Herrington & Sutcliffe LLP

Guidance from E.U. Supervisory Authorities on Data Processing in a Time of COVID-19

The European Data Protection Board (EDPB) and a number of European data protection supervisory authorities have recently issued guidance on processing personal data, including special categories of personal data (i.e., health...more

Akin Gump Strauss Hauer & Feld LLP

AI Auditing Framework – Draft ICO Guidance Published for Consultation

On February 19, 2020, the Information Commissioner’s Office (ICO), the data protection regulator in the United Kingdom, launched a consultation on its draft guidance on the artificial intelligence (AI) auditing framework. ...more

Morgan Lewis

The eData Guide to GDPR: Binding Corporate Rules and Privacy Shield

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Global organizations need a clear, legal means to share data across borders, whether to conduct day-to-day business, comply with government regulations, perform under a contract, respond to lawsuits, or simply communicate and...more

Hogan Lovells

Should I Be Worried About the GDPR? – EDPB’S Guidelines on the GDPR’S Territorial Scope

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Does the GDPR really apply to my company? From a data protection standpoint, this is the first thing that comes to mind within non-EU companies. In many cases, the GDPR seems like an issue of the Old Continent, so some assume...more

Orrick, Herrington & Sutcliffe LLP

A Survival Guide for GDPR Enforcement Actions from a German Perspective – How to Assess and Mitigate Fines for GDPR Violations

Since the first enforcement actions have been initiated, some with significant fines, many companies may find themselves somewhat at a loss as they may not fully know how to assess the risks involved and how to react should...more

Akerman LLP - Health Law Rx

Is A Federal Privacy Law In The Cards for 2020?

In May of 2018, the European Union enacted the General Data Protection Rules, or GDPR, a legal framework that outlines not only how companies may collect and process personal information of EU residents, but how that data is...more

Orrick, Herrington & Sutcliffe LLP

Russia Significantly Increases Fines for Violations of Data Localization Requirement

Under Russian Data Protection Law, when collecting personal data, data operators (controllers) must ensure that recording, systematization, accumulation, storage, updating and extraction of personal data relating to Russian...more

Best Best & Krieger LLP

GDPR Compliance

BB&K's Christina Morgan Talks About Data Privacy in Riverside Lawyer Magazine - Due to rising concerns about privacy in the digital world, in April 2016, the European Union adopted the General Data Protection Regulation...more

Hogan Lovells

Data class actions in Europe and spotlights in Mexico, Russia and the U.S.

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The General Data Protection Regulation 2016/679 (GDPR) provides means to enforce provisions related to personal data processing by you as a data controller or data processor. It introduces collective actions everywhere in...more

Carlton Fields

Regulating Privacy on the Blockchain Starts With Understanding the Meaning of “Personal Data”

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A commonality among recent data privacy regulations (including the EU’s GDPR, California’s CCPA, and Brazil’s LGPD) is that only the storage and transmittal of “personal data” is regulated. These new regulatory frameworks...more

Littler

GDPR Certification Is Coming to the UK…

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Want a certificate for all your hard work on GDPR? Later this year, “certification” will come into effect as a way for both data controllers and processors subject to UK data protection laws to demonstrate compliance with...more

Hogan Lovells

GDPR – The Year in Review

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Following the one-year anniversary of the coming into effect of the GDPR, Hogan Lovells’ Privacy and Cybersecurity practice has prepared a compilation of key GDPR-related developments of the past 12 months. The compilation...more

White & Case LLP

Chapter 16: Remedies and sanctions – Unlocking the EU General Data Protection Regulation

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Why does this topic matter to organisations? Whereas the remedies and sanctions available to DPAs under the Directive were comparatively low (generally subject to a maximum of less than €1 million per infringement, with...more

White & Case LLP

Chapter 1: Introduction – Unlocking the EU General Data Protection Regulation

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Directive 95/46/EC - Prior to the GDPR, the EU's data protection regime was governed by the Directive. The Directive (as with all EU Directives) did not apply automatically, and had to be transposed into the national laws...more

Buckingham, Doolittle & Burroughs, LLC

Cybersecurity And Data Breaches: You Must Take Steps Now To Avoid Personal And Company Loss

Unfortunately, no industry or business is immune from data security events. Nearly every business collects some form of personal information, whether it involves your employees, customers, vendors, or all of the above....more

Bricker Graydon LLP

U.S. hospitals will continue to grapple with GDPR compliance in 2019

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When the European Union’s General Data Protection Regulation (GDPR) became effective on May 25, 2018, many US-based hospitals struggled to determine whether they were subject to the GDPR and, if so, what they must do to...more

Ballard Spahr LLP

EDPB Draft Guidelines on Extraterritorial Scope of the GDPR Provide Few Clear Answers for US Companies

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Since the General Data Protection Regulation (“GDPR”) took effect on May 25, 2018, US companies without facilities or employees in Europe have struggled to understand the extraterritorial scope of the GDPR....more

Perkins Coie

12 Questions Retailers Should Ask to Avoid Ghosts of Privacy Breaches Past

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As retailers head into the holiday shopping season, the ghosts of privacy breaches past may come to mind just as easily as the 12 days of Christmas carol! From Target to Michael’s to Neiman Marcus, retailers remember these...more

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