On April 1st, 2025, the General Court of the European Union held its first hearing on the request initiated by member of French parliament Philippe Latombe for annulment of the EU-U.S. Data Privacy Framework (“DPF”) further...more
On 10 July 2023, the European Commission (EC) adopted its eagerly expected adequacy decision on data transfers under the EU-U.S. Data Privacy Framework (DPF). The adequacy decision was preceded by substantial changes to U.S....more
On the bumpy road towards a new adequacy decision for EU-U.S. data transfers, the European Data Protection Board (“EDPB”) has published its Opinion 5/2023 (“Opinion”) on the European Commission's (“Commission”) draft adequacy...more
The Data Protection Authority (“DPA”) of the German state Hamburg is one of the first European DPA to publish an optimistic assessment on the U.S. Executive Order on “Enhancing Safeguards for United States Signals...more
12/5/2022
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Schrems I & Schrems II
On 25 May 2022, the European Commission released long-awaited guidance for the Standard Contractual Clauses (SCCs) adopted in June 2021. The Commission has developed Questions and Answers (Q&As) as a dynamic source of...more