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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
On July 10, 1962, NASA launched Telstar 1, the first active communications satellite linking Europe and the United States through live television transmission. Sixty-one years later, on July 10, 2023, the European Commission...more
Deadline to adopt EU Standard Contractual Clauses - Many organizations uses the European Union’s Standard Contractual Clauses (SCCs) to govern their transfers of personal data from the European Economic Area (EEA) to other...more
On June 4, 2021, the European Commission (the “Commission”) published its implementing Decision adopting standard contractual clauses for transfer of personal data to third countries (the “SCCs”) designed to comply with the...more
While the announcement is short on details, once in place, U.S.-based. entities will be able to use the new agreement to comply with the GDPR’s cross-border data transfer requirements. On March 25, the U.S. and E.U....more
In this month’s Privacy & Cybersecurity Update, we analyze the U.S. and EU’s joint commitment to create a new data transfer framework to replace the invalidated Privacy Shield, as well as Utah’s new state privacy law and...more
On Friday, March 25, 2022, US President Joe Biden and European Commission President Ursula von der Leyen jointly announced that a deal has been reached to replace the former Privacy Shield framework governing data transfers...more
EU and UK data protection rules each restrict transfers of personal data to third countries not regarded as having an adequate level of protection, such as the United States, China, Russia and India....more
As of September 27, 2021, the European Commission requires controllers and processors to rely on the recently updated Standard Contractual Clauses (SCCs) for any new contracts governing personal data transfers from the EEA....more
On June 7, 2021, the European Commission (Commission) published its long-awaited Implementing Decision adopting standard contractual clauses for the transfer of personal data to third countries referred to as the new Standard...more
On June 4, 2021, the European Commission adopted its long-anticipated updated Standard Contractual Clauses (New SCCs) for use by organizations transferring personal data outside of the European Economic Area (EEA) to third...more
According to a press release of the data protection authority (DPA) of Lower Saxony earlier this month, nine German DPAs will participate in a coordinated audit of companies in Germany regarding their transfers of personal...more
The European Commission has issued new Standard Contractual Clauses designed to facilitate international transfers of personal data in compliance with the GDPR. The new provisions better reflect the variety of global data...more
The European Commission recently published an updated version of the standard contractual clauses for the transfer of personal data to third countries ('SCCs'). Companies can use such SCCs to provide the appropriate...more
Standard contractual clauses (SCCs) are a contract addendum with provisions governing the handling of personal information. The express language of the SCCs has been preapproved by the European Commission (Commission) to be...more
The European Commission (“EC”) has adopted a long-awaited new set of standard contractual clauses (“SCCs”) for the transfer of personal data to parties in third countries outside the European Union (“EU”) and European...more
On June 4, the European Commission (EC) adopted two sets of standard contractual clauses (SCCs) for use between controllers and processers in the European Economic Area (EEA) and for the transfer of data between EEA and...more
On July 16, 2020, the Court of Justice of the European Union (CJEU) invalidated in “Schrems II” the EU–U.S. Privacy Shield framework, while upholding the Standard Contractual Clauses (SCCs) as a valid mechanism for...more
The European Commission’s long-awaited updates to the Standard Contractual Clauses (“SCCs”) have arrived. Data protection lawyers globally have eagerly anticipated these changes, which are necessary to address a legal...more
On June 4, 2021, the European Commission adopted two new sets of standard contractual clauses (SCCs): one for data transfers from data controllers to data processors and one for data transfers from data exporters to data...more
After much anticipation, the European Commission has published new Standard Contractual Clauses (SCCs). Under the General Data Protection Regulation (GDPR), when personal data of individuals in the European Economic Area...more
The European Commission has published updated versions of the standard contractual clauses for international transfers of personal data from the European Union (“EU”). These new standard contractual clauses take into account...more
On June 4th, 2021, the European Commission adopted and published a new set of so-called standard contractual clauses (“SCCs”) providing a legal basis for international transfers of personal data from the EU/EEA to third...more
Earlier today, the European Commission approved and adopted a new version of the Standard Contractual Clauses (SCCs) that revises how data may be transferred by including additional privacy and legal safeguards. The remodeled...more