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Updata: Your quarterly privacy & cybersecurity update - April to June 2021

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Welcome to the latest edition of Updata - the international update from Eversheds Sutherland’s dedicated Privacy and Cybersecurity team. Updata provides you with a compilation of privacy and cybersecurity regulatory and...more

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Top EU Court: Cookies Require Active, Specific and Informed Consent

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The Court of Justice of the European Union (CJEU) published a judgment that echoes the recent developments discussed in our August update, "New Developments in EU for Cookies and Online Tracking." This is an important...more

Mintz - Privacy & Cybersecurity Viewpoints

Ruling from Europe’s High Court: “Active” Consent Required for Cookies

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The Court of Justice of the European Union (CJEU) – the European Union’s equivalent to the US Supreme Court – has issued a very important ruling with respect to cookie compliance that may require re-evaluation of your cookie...more

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ECJ Rules Companies Using Social Plugins Are Joint Controllers

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The Situation: Fashion ID, a German online clothing retailer, embedded on its website the Facebook "Like" button. When a user consults the website of Fashion ID, that user's personal data are transmitted to Facebook Ireland....more

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Website Operator Jointly Liable for Data Collection and Transmission Through Facebook "Like" Button

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On July 29, 2019, the European Court of Justice (ECJ) issued its decision in FashionID (Case C-40/17), determining that website operators are jointly liable with plugin providers for data collection and transmission through...more

White and Williams LLP

CEO Zuckerberg: Facebook User Settings Protect Individual Data – Congress Is Not So Sure

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After ten hours of Congressional testimony, one thing is clear – there is growing bipartisan concern over data privacy and data protection in the US. In the wake of so many recent data breaches, and now the data harvesting...more

Cooley LLP

Alert: Unsafe Harbor: Social Media

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Last week Europe's highest court, the Court of Justice of the European Union, (CJEU) declared the Safe Harbor framework invalid. You can read more about the decision in our previous alerts here. Although it is unlikely that...more

Fisher Phillips

Safe Harbor Put Into Question!

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The 1995 EU Privacy Directive 95/46/EC provides that personal data of say, employees, to third countries, like the United States, may only be done with employee consent and only where the U.S. has ensured an adequate level of...more

Proskauer - Privacy & Cybersecurity

In the E.U., Where to Bring Suit When the Subject is Data and the Defendant is a U.S. Company? Hint: It’s About More Than Just...

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When are U.S. social media companies subject to European data privacy laws? As we reported in 2013, the answer is often contingent on geographic location – where the relevant data is processed. In 2013, for example, a German...more

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Navigating the Patchwork: When Is European Data Privacy Law Applicable to US Companies?

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Are social media companies based in the United States subject to European data privacy laws? Two recent judicial decisions – one in France and the other in Germany – arrived at different answers. The Civil Court of Paris held...more

Pillsbury - Global Sourcing Practice

2013 Albrecht Report confirms Major Changes in EU Data Laws - Are You Ready?

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Why do you need to act urgently even if you feel your data handling is compliant? If you are a US headquartered company do you need to bother with these new EU laws and significant changes proposed?...more

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