On November 16, 2018, the European Data Protection Board (“EDPB”), the General Data Protection Regulation (“GDPR”) successor of the Art. 29 Data Protection Working Group, released its long-awaited Guidelines 3/2018 on the...more
On May 25, 2018, at the effective date of the General Data Protection Regulation (“GDPR”), the European Data Protection Board (“EDPB”) adopted its “Guidelines 2/2018 on derogations of Article 49 under Regulation 2016/679”...more
On June 12, 2018, following its extraordinary meeting the day before in Strasbourg, the European Parliament’s Civil Liberties, Justice and Home Affairs Committee (“LIBE”) called on the European Commission (“Commission”) to...more
On January 24, 2018, the European Commission (“EC”) published additional guidance (“Guidance”) to facilitate the implementation of the General Data Protection Regulation (“GDPR”), which will become effective on May 25 in all...more
On October 18, 2017, the European Commission (“EC”) published its report (“Report”) on the results of the first annual joint review of the functioning of the EU-U.S. Privacy Shield (“Privacy Shield”). The Report is good news...more
On August 24, 2017, the UK’s Department for Exiting the European Union (“the Department”) published “A Future Partnership Paper” (“Partnership Paper”) in which it outlined its approach on the exchange and protection of...more
In January 2017, the European Commission (the “EC”) published its proposal for a new ePrivacy Regulation (the “ePrivacy Proposal”), which will replace the ePrivacy Directive of 2002 (2002/58/EC) and the Cookie Directives of...more
Businesses have now had four months to get to grips with the new EU-U.S. Privacy Shield for transatlantic data transfers after it came into force in August 2016. As the New Year looms, what are the emerging trends we have...more