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President Biden has signed the long-awaited executive order implementing U.S. commitments to the new successor agreement to the Privacy Shield, the EU-U.S. Data Privacy Framework—a historic step in respect of...more
10/20/2022
/ Biden Administration ,
Cybersecurity ,
Data Privacy ,
Data Protection ,
Data Security ,
Data Transfers ,
EU-US Privacy Shield ,
European Commission ,
Executive Orders ,
General Data Protection Regulation (GDPR) ,
International Data Transfers
Last week the Biden administration and the European Commission jointly announced a new trans-Atlantic data flow agreement. While no specifics have yet been made public, a recent press release gives the high-level facts of...more
The ground-breaking draft European Union Act on Artificial Intelligence (AI), which has far-reaching implications beyond Europe, is currently going through the legislative procedure of the European Parliament and Council. The...more
The newly passed Proposition 24, the California Privacy Rights Act (CPRA), represents the second time in two years that California has instituted a comprehensive privacy statute that fundamentally changes data privacy...more
On Friday September 4, 2020, the European Data Protection Board (EDPB), a body consisting of representatives of all the Data Protection Authorities (DPAs) in the European Economic Area, announced that it had formed two new...more
9/14/2020
/ Corporate Counsel ,
Court of Justice of the European Union (CJEU) ,
Cybersecurity ,
Data Collection ,
Data Controller ,
Data Privacy ,
Data Processors ,
Data Protection ,
Data Protection Authority ,
Data Security ,
EU ,
EU Data Protection Laws ,
EU-US Privacy Shield ,
European Data Protection Board (EDPB) ,
General Data Protection Regulation (GDPR) ,
International Data Transfers ,
Personal Data ,
Personally Identifiable Information
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
7/20/2020
/ Court of Justice of the European Union (CJEU) ,
Data Controller ,
Data Processors ,
Data Protection ,
EU ,
EU-US Privacy Shield ,
General Data Protection Regulation (GDPR) ,
International Data Transfers ,
Personal Data ,
Safe Harbors ,
Standard Contractual Clauses
We reported in July 2019 that the Court of Justice of the European Union (CJEU) heard a case brought by privacy-rights activist Max Schrems, challenging the validity of Standard Contractual Clauses (SCCs), which are widely...more
12/24/2019
/ Advocate General ,
Binding Corporate Rules ,
Court of Justice of the European Union (CJEU) ,
Data Privacy ,
Data Protection ,
Data Subjects Rights ,
EU ,
EU-US Privacy Shield ,
European Commission ,
International Data Transfers ,
National Security ,
Personal Data ,
Privacy Laws ,
Standard Contractual Clauses ,
US-EU Safe Harbor Framework
On 9 July 2019, the Court of Justice of the European Union (CJEU) in Luxembourg heard a case brought by privacy-rights activist Max Schrems (C-311/18, Data Protection Commissioner v Facebook Ireland Limited, Maximilliam...more