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Data Privacy Laws and Blocking Statutes: Five Practical Strategies for Counsel

HaystackID on 1/30/2023

Background Note: Data privacy has become a critical issue in the digital era, with laws and regulations constantly evolving. As a result, it’s important for cybersecurity, information governance, and legal discovery...more

[Webcast Transcript] The Digital Great Wall: Data Protection in Today’s China

HaystackID on 1/26/2023

Editor’s Note: On January 18, 2023, HaystackID shared an educational webcast on China’s emerging statutes and regulations governing the processing, disclosure, and transfer of data. As Chinese entities increasingly become...more

The EU-US Privacy Shield is Invalid: Facebook May Be Only the First Casualty

Sunstein LLP on 10/5/2020

News sources reported this month that the Irish data protection authority (DPA) had sent Facebook a preliminary order that would prohibit the transfer of information about European Union (EU) residents to US Facebook users....more

Privacy & Cybersecurity Update - July 2020

Skadden, Arps, Slate, Meagher & Flom LLP on 8/6/2020

In this month's edition, we examine the Court of Justice of the European Union's decision invalidating the EU-U.S. Privacy Shield framework, as well as the U.S. government's response to the decision. We also examine two...more

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

White & Case LLP on 7/19/2020

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

Schrems 2.0: AG Opines That Data Transfers to U.S. Are Valid Under Standard Contractual Clauses

Wilson Sonsini Goodrich & Rosati on 12/23/2019

On December 19, 2019, in the Facebook Ireland and Schrems (Schrems 2.0) case, the Advocate General (AG) to the European Court of Justice (ECJ)—European Union's highest court—opined that the EU Standard Contractual Clauses...more

Article 29 Working Party Sets Deadline to Address Privacy Shield Concerns

Hogan Lovells on 12/11/2017

Hot on the heels of the European Commission’s official review of the functioning of the EU-U.S. Privacy Shield framework, the Article 29 Working Party (Working Party) of EU data protection regulators has issued its own report...more

Processor BCRs Under the GDPR: Realizing the Potential

Alston & Bird on 4/20/2017

Binding Corporate Rules (BCRs) are an intracompany code of conduct that regulates the principles and rules that apply to the processing and transfer of personal data within a company group, including cross-border. BCRs were...more

German Data Protection Authority Issues Fines for Unlawful Cross-Atlantic Data Transfers

BakerHostetler on 6/10/2016

The Data Protection Authority of Hamburg, Germany has made good on its promise to audit cross-Atlantic data transfers in the wake of the October 2015 Safe Harbor decision. On June 6, the Hamburg DPA announced that it had...more

How to Prepare for the General Data Protection Regulation (GDPR)

BCLP on 5/4/2016

The EU General Data Protection Regulation (the “GDPR”) was adopted by the EU Parliament last April 14, 2016. The GDPR will replace the EU Data Protection Directive (95/46/EC), which was implemented more than 20 years ago....more

A Month in UK Employment Law - April 2016

Proskauer Rose LLP on 4/26/2016

News & Legislation Update - Gender Pay Gap Reporting Draft Regulations published - The first draft of regulations requiring any employer in the UK with at least 250 employees to publish information about the...more

EU-U.S. Privacy Shield Details Released – Is the New Data Transfer Arrangement Right for Your Company?

Davis Wright Tremaine LLP on 3/8/2016

On February 29 the European Commission released its Draft Adequacy Decision and supplemental documents on the EU-U.S. Privacy Shield (“Privacy Shield”), giving businesses that transfer data from the European Union to the...more

(So) What if there’s no Safe Harbor 2.0?

Mintz - Privacy & Cybersecurity Viewpoints on 1/29/2016

There’s no doubt businesses in the EU and US would breathe a sigh of relief if a new Safe Harbor agreement is put in place between before European data protection authorities start prosecuting companies for potentially...more

The European Commission Issues Guidance on Alternative Cross-Border Data Transfer Tools

Proskauer - Privacy & Cybersecurity on 11/9/2015

On November 6, 2015, one month after the European Court of Justice decision that invalidated the Safe Harbor framework, the European Commission (the “Commission”) issued a Communication setting forth its position on...more

No Safe Harbour? Immediate Implications for Employers

Seyfarth Shaw LLP on 10/19/2015

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

EU Data Protection Authorities Issue Statement Following Schrems Decision

Wilson Sonsini Goodrich & Rosati on 10/19/2015

On October 16, 2015, the body of European data protection regulators (Article 29 Working Party or WP29) issued a statement on the implementation of the judgement of the Court of Justice of the European Union (CJEU) in...more

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

Proskauer - Privacy & Cybersecurity on 10/19/2015

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

What Now? What Next? FAQs and Answers Regarding the Safe Harbor Decision

BakerHostetler on 10/13/2015

As we discussed in our blog post last week, on October 6, 2015, the Court of Justice of the European Union issued a judgment that invalidated the EU-U.S. Safe Harbor Framework. For the past 15 years, thousands of companies...more

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