Nota Bene Episode 135: Europe Q3 Check In: Brexit, Data Protection, and Block Exemption Regulations with Oliver Heinisch
NGE On Demand: Personal Data Protection Travels: The New Standard Contractual Clause with John Koenigsknecht and David Wheeler
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The European Union’s General Data Protection Regulation (“GDPR”) marked a turning point in privacy and data protection practices globally and transformed how American companies approach the protection of personal data....more
The dust has settled on the new EU standard contractual clauses for cross-border data transfers (“New SCCs”), but confusion still reins on how the New SCCs cover data transfers and what companies need to do to take advantage...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
Companies have three months to prepare to use the latest standard contractual clauses for new data transfers, and 18 months to migrate existing arrangements. On 4 June 2021, the European Commission released its...more
On June 4, 2021, the European Commission announced the definitive adoption and publication of revamped Standard Contractual Clauses (“SCCs”) for the transfer of personal data to third countries pursuant to the EU General Data...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
Executive summary - In a repeat move echoing the previous invalidation of the “Safe Harbor”, on 16th July 2020 the Court of Justice of the European Union (“CJEU”) invalidated the “Privacy Shield”, which had allowed the...more
The table below sets out the guidance provided by data protection authorities (DPA) in response to the European Court of Justice’s landmark judgment in Case C-311/18 Data Protection Commissioner v. Facebook Ireland and...more
Any organization that relies on certification under the EU-U.S. Privacy Shield framework and/or entering into the Standard Contractual Clauses (“SCCs” or “Model Clauses”) to effectuate personal data transfers from the...more
The Court of Justice of the European Union (“CJEU”), on July 16, 2020, invalidated the European Union-U.S. Privacy Shield Framework (“Privacy Shield”), which more than 5,300 U.S. organizations had relied on to lawfully...more
On July 16, 2020, the Court of Justice of the European Union (CJEU), the supreme court of the European Union on matters involving European Union law, issued its long anticipated decision in the “Schrems II” case ( case...more
On July 16, 2020, Europe’s highest court, the Court of Justice of the European Union, struck down the Privacy Shield, an agreement that permitted companies operating in the European Union (EU) to transfer data to the United...more
On July 16, 2020, the European Court of Justice (Court) ruled in the “Schrems II” case that the one of the most commonly used cross border data transfer mechanisms between the European Union (EU) and the United States (US),...more
On July 16, 2020, the Grand Chamber of the Court of Justice of the European Union (CJEU) in Luxembourg handed down its highly anticipated judgment in a case brought by privacy activist Max Schrems (C-311/18, Data Protection...more
In a decision issued on July 16, 2020, the Court of Justice of the European Union (CJEU) invalidated the EU-U.S. Privacy Shield Framework, one of the primary tools used by companies in the European Union (EU) to transfer...more
El TJUE se pronuncia sobre la validez del Privacy Shield y las Cláusulas Contractuales Tipo (Responsable-Encargado). En su sentencia, el TJUE ha: (i) invalidado el Privacy Shield como mecanismo para transferir de forma segura...more
Today (July 16) Europe’s highest court, the Court of Justice of the European Union (CJEU), in the case of Data Protection Commissioner v Facebook Ireland and Maximillian Schrems (Schrems II) invalidated the EU–U.S. Privacy...more
The Situation: The Court of Justice of the European Union ("CJEU") has ruled that international data flows under the European Union's comprehensive data protection regime, the GDPR, can continue to be based on EU Standard...more