Closing in on the fifth anniversary of the entry into force of the EU General Data Protection Regulation (GDPR), the Irish Data Protection Commission (DPC) announced on 22 May 2023 that it had fined the Irish subsidiary of...more
On 21 March 2022, the United Kingdom finalized the adoption of its own version of the European Union’s Standard Contractual Clauses (SCC), a contractual mechanism aiming at securing personal data protected under a data...more
European regulators unofficially announced the major theme of this new year, through the release of several decisions pertaining to cookies and other tracking technologies in the first 10 days of 2022. As the General Data...more
1/28/2022
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Data Transfers ,
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Personal Data ,
Schrems I & Schrems II
Depending on whether you are an optimist or a pessimist, it will have taken the European Commission either three years and two weeks (since the entry into force of the General Data Protection Regulation (GDPR) or eleven...more
The Bavarian Data Protection Authority recently prohibited a European company from using U.S. newsletter provider Mailchimp in a first-of-its-kind decision. Since the Schrems II decision of the Court of Justice of the...more
On October 6, 2015, the European Court of Justice (“ECJ”) ruled in the “Schrems” case that the U.S.-EU Safe Harbor framework on the transfer of personal data from Europe to the United States, was invalid.
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10/8/2015
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Facebook ,
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International Data Transfers ,
Ireland ,
National Security ,
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Obama Administration ,
Personal Data ,
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Right to Privacy ,
Safe Harbors ,
Schrems I & Schrems II ,
TTIP ,
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