The European Council adopted the EU Data Act (the Act) on November 27, 2023, representing a major regulatory shift in cloud services and data processing. The Act’s objectives include ensuring fairness in the allocation of...more
The European Union (EU) Commission released its Draft Adequacy Decision for the EU-US Data Privacy Framework on December 13, which, in conjunction with President Biden’s executive order issued on October 7, will further...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
7/15/2021
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Data Protection ,
EU ,
European Commission ,
European Economic Area (EEA) ,
General Data Protection Regulation (GDPR) ,
International Data Transfers ,
Personal Data ,
Schrems I & Schrems II ,
Standard Contractual Clauses ,
UK
The July 1 enforcement of the California Consumer Privacy Act (CCPA) is one week away. Despite calls by the business community and trade associations to push back the enforcement date to January 2021 due to the coronavirus...more
6/24/2020
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Consumer Privacy Rights ,
Cybersecurity ,
Data Collection ,
Data Management ,
Data Privacy ,
Data Protection ,
Information Governance ,
Opt-Outs ,
Personal Data ,
Personally Identifiable Information ,
State and Local Government ,
State Attorneys General
Data owners and processors are working hard to make sure they have compliance programs in place by the time the European Union’s General Data Protection Regulation (GDPR) goes into force on May 25, 2018. To that end, a new...more
In a positive development for companies relying on transatlantic data transfers, the European Commission (the Commission) recently announced that one year into the program, the EU-US Privacy Shield framework is functioning as...more