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
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Data protection authorities (DPAs) in the European Union (EU) continue to scrutinize practices in the adtech sector for compliance with the EU’s General Data Protection Regulation (GDPR) and local data protection and...more
8/6/2019
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A year ago, on May 25, 2018, the European Union’s General Data Protection Regulation (GDPR) came into force. With its extraterritorial scope and detailed requirements, the GDPR aimed to change the approach to personal data...more
5/31/2019
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The EU General Data Protection Regulation (GDPR), which revised and sought to ensure greater harmonization of the European Union’s data protection framework, took effect in May 2018. Among the changes it introduced was the...more
2/21/2019
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• Non-profit organizations are testing companies’ GDPR compliance through targeted requests for information and other means and are filing complaints against allegedly non-compliant companies.
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1/28/2019
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On October 19, 2016, the Court of Justice of the European Union (CJEU) issued a judgment determining that dynamic Internet protocol (IP) addresses may constitute “personal data” subject to protection under the EU’s Data...more
On August 1, 2016, the Department of Commerce began accepting applications for self-certification under the new Privacy Shield requirements. Privacy Shield was approved by the European Union (EU) on July 12, 2016, and...more
On July 8, 2016, the European Commission Article 31 Committee, consisting of representatives from each of the EU member states, approved the revamped EU-U.S. Privacy Shield. This news marks a significant step forward for the...more
Wednesday, February 3, brought additional developments pertaining to the transfer of personal data from the EU to the U.S. consistent with EU privacy law. Just one day prior, we reported on the announcement by the EU and U.S....more
On December 15, 2015, European Union (“EU”) politicians and officials reached a political agreement on a new EU-wide legal framework to govern data sharing and collection and related consumer privacy rights. It is called the...more
If you read one thing...
- Just this week, Europe's highest court struck down the U.S.-EU Safe Harbor Framework, stating that it failed to adequately protect the privacy rights of EU citizens.
- The ruling,...more