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In-house Roundhouse: Antitrust and the Tech Industry
What's Next after the Schrems II Decision of ECJ
Life With GDPR: Episode 47- Schrems III-Impact on the Transatlantic Digital Trade
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
The guidance outlines how organisations should approach international transfers and confirms examples of supplemental measures that can be adopted to ensure ongoing compliance and seeking to de-mystify earlier uncertainty. ...more
Organizations are closely tracking which of their vendors previously relied on Privacy Shield. Separately, they are preparing Transfer Impact Assessments (“TIAs”) to evaluate and address risks associated with personal data...more
The last few years have witnessed remarkable changes in the privacy world. The GDPR, the CCPA, the invalidation of the EU-US Privacy Shield framework and the related obligations resulting from the Schrems II decision - to...more
The Situation: After the invalidation of the EU-U.S. Privacy Shield by the Court of Justice of the European Union ("CJEU"), the conditions under which international data may flow from the European Union continue to remain...more
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
If you transfer personal data from the EU/UK to countries which lack a so-called “adequacy” determination, like the US or India, or if your trusted service providers do, the Schrems II European Court decision has seismic...more
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
Still grappling with the aftershocks of the Schrems II decision from the CJEU on July 16 (we previously discussed the Schrems II decision here), the European Data Protection Board (“EDPB”) has issued a Frequently Asked...more
EDPB and data protection authorities’ views and statements on the “Schrems II”- decision by the CJEU - On 16 July, 2020, the European Court of Justice (“CJEU“) passed a decision invalidating the EU-US Privacy Shield and...more
As discussed in an earlier alert, the Court of Justice of the European Union in a landmark decision in the Schrems II case invalidated the EU-US Privacy Shield framework, which was widely used by thousands of US organizations...more