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CHINA: DPOs Must Be Registered Before 29 August 2025

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While appointing and registering a DPO has been mandatory in China for many years, a portal has now finally been established for organisations to register those DPOs with the China data protection authority. This resolves...more

Akin Gump Strauss Hauer & Feld LLP

European Data Protection Board Forms Two New Taskforces to Address Schrems II Aftermath

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

White & Case LLP

COVID-19 and Data Protection Compliance: Italy

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Following the outbreak of COVID-19 and its development into a global pandemic, organizations have been implementing exceptional measures to safeguard employees, customers and others against the health threat that is being...more

Hogan Lovells

The Belgian Data Protection Authority Publishes Recommendation Concerning Data Processing for Direct Marketing Purposes

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On January 17, The Belgian Data Protection Authority (DPA) published Recommendation no 01/2020 providing Guidance on direct marketing. The Recommendation provides a methodology on how to comply with the General Data...more

Foley Hoag LLP - Security, Privacy and the...

Data Scraping, at Home and Abroad

Data scraping is a technique where information on one platform is exported onto another. The practice is widespread and is used for all sort of reasons, like market analysis or advertising. The kind of information located and...more

Sheppard Mullin Richter & Hampton LLP

Brazil’s New Privacy Law One Year Away

Global corporations will soon have another privacy law acronym to address. In one year (August 2020), Brazil will join the fray with its own general privacy law, the Lei Geral de Proteção de Dados Pessaoais (General Data...more

Foley Hoag LLP - Security, Privacy and the...

The Paris District Court Invalidates 38 Clauses of Google+ Terms of Use and Privacy Policy

It has been rough weather for Google in France. Three weeks after the French ?Data Protection Authority imposed a record fine against Google for non-compliance with the GDPR, the Paris District Court (“Tribunal de Grande...more

Foley Hoag LLP - Security, Privacy and the...

GDPR Alert: Google Gets Biggest Fine Ever Issued by a European Data Protection Authority

On 21 January 2019, the French Data Protection Authority (the “French DPA”) fined Google LLC 50 million euros for breach of the GDPR. As we reported on this blog, just after GDPR became applicable, noyb.eu (None of Your...more

Schwabe, Williamson & Wyatt PC

How the GDPR Will Impact U.S.-Based Companies (Part 1)

On May 25, 2018, the European Union (“EU”) will implement the most robust regulation of privacy data that the digital world has ever seen—commonly known as the General Data Protection Regulation, or “GDPR.” The GDPR is the...more

Goodwin

Court Invalidates US-EU Data Transfer Safe Harbor Program

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The European Union’s highest court has, effective immediately, invalidated the US-EU Safe Harbor program relied upon by many companies as the basis for lawfully transferring and processing personal information from the EU to...more

Mintz - Privacy & Cybersecurity Viewpoints

Safe Harbor Invalidated – What’s Next on the Chopping Block?

As I reported earlier today, the Court of Justice of the EU (ECJ) has declared Safe Harbor invalid. The full decision is now available online in English (other languages also available at curia.europa.eu by searching on...more

Orrick, Herrington & Sutcliffe LLP

More fines to come in Germany? Service provider engagements are under increased scrutiny.

Following a significant fine against the parties to an asset acquisition for illegally transferring customer information, the Bavarian Data Protection Supervisory Authority (Bavarian DPA) announced on August, 20, 2015 that it...more

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