Compliance Perspectives: The End of the Privacy Shield
Nota Bene Episode 89: European Q3 Check In - Merger Clearance and Data Protection Court Rulings and Brexit Updates with Oliver Heinisch
On April 28 2025, the Court of Justice of the European Union (CJEU) published an updated version of the fact sheet (the Fact Sheet) summarising key case law on protection of personal data. The Fact Sheet covers the case law...more
On February 27 2025, the Court of Justice of the European Union (CJEU) delivered a judgment in CK v Dun & Bradstreet (Case C-203/22). This judgment clarifies the GDPR provisions regarding the right of access to personal...more
Advocate General Spielmann opines that personal data can be pseudonymous in the hands of one party and anonymous in the hands of another....more
The CJEU has decided that the maximum thresholds for GDPR fines should be calculated using the global turnover of the broader corporate group, not solely the infringing entity....more
In a landmark judgment delivered on 29 January 2025, the General Court of the European Union has affirmed the European Data Protection Board‘s (EDPB) authority to require national supervisory authorities to broaden their...more
The German Federal Court of Justice (Bundesgerichtshof), tasked with resolving a conflict between two competing pharmacists, sought guidance from the Court of Justice of the European Union ("CJEU") on interpreting the General...more
Alongside the recent CJEU judgment on automated decision making in Schufa (see the Allen & Overy blog ) there are a range of developments related to ADM in other jurisdictions. UK developments - The UK Parliament is...more
On July 10, 2023, the European Commission (EC) adopted its adequacy decision for the EU-U.S. Data Privacy Framework (EU-U.S. DPF, or “Privacy Framework”), which establishes the Privacy Framework as an authorized mechanism...more
It has been a long time coming, but the other shoe has finally dropped. Ireland’s Data Protection Commission (DPC) fined Meta Platforms Ireland (parent of Facebook Ireland) €1.2 billion, the highest fine to date under the...more
After a two year absence of a legal framework for transferring personal data from the EU to the U.S., President Biden signed an Executive Order on Enhancing Safeguards for United States Signals Intelligence Activities (the...more
On August 1, 2022, the Court of Justice of the European Union (CJEU) issued an opinion regarding a Lithuanian data protection case that may signal an expansion of interpretation of the definition of sensitive personal data...more
United Kingdom, French and Belgian national security laws (and such laws of other EU Member States) fell under the scrutiny of the Court of Justice of the European Union (CJEU), which on October 6, 2020, ruled on whether such...more
Parties in the US are allowed broad and liberal discovery of electronically stored information (ESI) relevant and proportional to the claims and defenses in a legal action. When a US-based litigant seeks ESI stored in other...more
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
In recent weeks there has been significant debate among commentators about whether Europeans’ privacy is becoming less protected in the US and what that may mean for the privacy protection arrangements between the EU and the...more