The European Data Protection Board (EDPB) recently published Minutes of its last plenary meeting held in September, which sheds light on how the EDPB plans to address the biggest open issue of the new Standard Contractual...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
8/27/2021
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On 15 January, 2021, the European Data Protection Board (“EDPB”) and the European Data Protection Supervisor (“EDPS”) adopted a joint opinion (“Joint Opinion”) on the draft new sets of Standard Contractual Clauses (“New...more
1/28/2021
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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
7/17/2020
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Standard Contractual Clauses
The Advocate General has issued an Opinion which states that the European Commission’s decision, enforcing the Standard Contractual Clauses (SCCs), is valid....more