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DSIR Deeper Dive: Absent Legislation, Privacy Regulators Offer Guidance on AI

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By now, many of us are using AI, advising others about how to use AI, and waiting for some legislative miracle to give us some guardrails for what we can or cannot be doing with AI. A lot of effort has been put into tracking...more

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[Webcast Transcript] You’ve Got to Move It: Data Protection and Privacy with Cross-Border Transfers

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...This session, led by industry-acknowledged experts in areas ranging from data protection and privacy to data transfer and legal discovery, provided a professional forum for the explanation of the best approaches,...more

A&O Shearman

The EU Data Act - what could this mean for you?

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On 23 February 2022, Margrethe Vestager (European Commission’s Executive Vice President for a Europe fit for the Digital Age) unveiled proposals for the EU’s latest legislative development, the EU Data Act. Originally...more

Skadden, Arps, Slate, Meagher & Flom LLP

Privacy & Cybersecurity Update - February 2022

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In this month’s Privacy & Cybersecurity Update, we examine the Illinois Supreme Court’s decision in a case involving workers compensation and the state’s Biometric Information Privacy Act, U.K. data transfer regimes before...more

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Cookies Resulting in Cross Border Data Transfers to the United States Draw Scrutiny from European Data Privacy Regulators

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Recent decisions from the European Union (EU) have placed renewed focus on the use of common cookies used on ecommerce and other websites used by consumers and employees and transfers of personal data collected through...more

Wilson Sonsini Goodrich & Rosati

Belgian DPA Finds That IAB Europe’s Cookie Consent Framework Violates the GDPR

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On February 2, 2022, the Belgian Data Protection Authority (DPA) found that the Interactive Advertising Bureau Europe (IAB) Transparency & Consent Framework (TCF), a tool used to record individuals' online ad preferences,...more

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Recent GDPR Fines Against Amazon and WhatsApp Set New Records

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The passage of the General Data Protection Regulation (GDPR) made it clear that the European Union (EU) is extremely serious about consumer privacy and that protecting EU citizens’ personal information is a top priority. The...more

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Data Breach Enforcement Is a Global Risk

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The 2021 edition of BakerHostetler’s annual Data Security Incident Response Report highlights some regulatory enforcement trends we saw from the European Union (EU) data protection authorities (DPAs) during the past year. EU...more

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DORA – Enhancing digital resilience for the financial sector and its ICT service providers is more important than ever

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The future of finance is digital. The increased reliance on technology in finance heightens the vulnerability of ICT systems and worsens the impact of a potential cyberattack. To this end, the European Commission (the...more

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[Webinar] Mitigating Risk Exposure Under Evolving Global Cookies Regulations - May 19th, 12:00 pm - 1:00 pm EDT

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The regulation of cookies and similar tracking technologies is rapidly evolving, not only in the European Union and United Kingdom but also in the United States and globally. If you have visited a website recently, you might...more

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International Data Protection Update – First Quarter 2021

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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

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French Data Protection Regulator Fines Google and Amazon for Non-compliance With EU Cookie Rules

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On 7 December 2020, the French supervisory authority CNIL (Commission nationale de l’informatique et des libertés, French data protection authority) imposed substantive fines on Amazon and Google for allegedly placing...more

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Schrems Strikes Again: Battery of New Data Privacy Complaints Raise Compliance Questions for EU-U.S. Data Transfers

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Barely one month after the Court of Justice of the European Union (CJEU) issued its Schrems II decision striking down the EU-U.S. Privacy Shield Framework (Privacy Shield), Austrian privacy activist Max Schrems has filed 101...more

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Court of Justice invalidates EU-U.S. ‘Privacy Shield’ pact

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The Court of Justice of the EU has declared that the European Commission's adequacy decision in respect of the EU-U.S. Privacy Shield is invalid. The Court's ruling effectively removes a key mechanism that had been widely...more

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GDPR Guide to National Implementation: Glossary - A practical guide to national GDPR compliance requirements across the EEA

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Glossary - - Adequacy Decision means a decision by the Commission to designate a third country as an Adequate Jurisdiction. - Adequate Jurisdiction means one of the following jurisdictions that have been designated by the...more

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GDPR Guide to National Implementation: Denmark - A practical guide to national GDPR compliance requirements across the EEA

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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, and old legislation has been amended. ——— (b)...more

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Interactive Counsel Newsletter: Privacy Report: FBI Issues Updated Ransomware Guidance

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FBI Issues Updated Ransomware Guidance - A recent report from New Zealand-based cybersecurity firm Emsisoft has revealed the extent to which ransomware is being used in cyberattacks in the United States. The first 9 months...more

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GDPR Guide to National Implementation - A practical guide to national GDPR compliance requirements across the EEA

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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

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Interactive Newsletter: Inside the Privacy Shield Annual Review

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Inside the Privacy Shield Annual Review - Dozens of senior US and EU government officials were joined by officials from data protection authorities in Austria, Bulgaria, France, Germany and Hungary to discuss whether the...more

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High GDPR Fines: German Data Protection Authority Joins the Club

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Following in the footsteps of the CNIL and the ICO, the Berlin DPA will impose a multimillion-euro fine for breach of the GDPR. The Berlin Data Protection Authority (Berlin DPA) recently announced that it will issue a...more

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Privacy and Data Security Alert | August 2019

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French Data Protection Authority Issues Guidelines on Cookie Use - CNIL, France’s data protection authority, has released new rulesfor obtaining consumer consent under the GDPR for companies using cookies and other tracking...more

Akin Gump Strauss Hauer & Feld LLP

Continuing GDPR Pressure for Adtech

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Data protection authorities (DPAs) in the European Union (EU) continue to scrutinize practices in the adtech sector for compliance with the EU’s General Data Protection Regulation (GDPR) and local data protection and...more

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The CNIL Sharpens Requirements on Deployment of Tracking Technologies

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On July 18, 2019, the French Data Protection Authority (CNIL) issued new guidance on the use of cookies and similar tracking technologies (collectively referred to as “cookies” below). The guidance clarifies the instances in...more

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A Year of GDPR: Five Recommendations to Help Limit Regulatory Scrutiny

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A year ago, on May 25, 2018, the European Union’s General Data Protection Regulation (GDPR) came into force. With its extraterritorial scope and detailed requirements, the GDPR aimed to change the approach to personal data...more

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Chapter 14: Data Protection Authorities – Unlocking the EU General Data Protection Regulation

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Why does this topic matter to organisations? National Data Protection Authorities ("DPAs") are appointed to implement and enforce data protection law, and to offer guidance. As set out in Chapter 16, DPAs have significant...more

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