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The European Union is an economic and political partnership comprised of 27 nations within the Eurozone. The EU was established in 1948 to promote stability and cooperation among member states in the aftermath of WWII. The EU maintains a common currency as well as several intranational institutions, including the European Parliament and the European Commission. less -
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France and the new EU regulation on political advertising: the CNIL updates its doctrine ahead of the 2025 implementation

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Online political advertising has become central to modern electoral campaigns. However, the growing lack of transparency, particularly regarding funding, targeting, and data processing practices, raises serious concerns about...more

Hogan Lovells

Submitting tracking pixels in emails to consent: the CNIL launches a public consultation

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On 12 June 2025, the French data protection authority (CNIL) launched a public consultation on a draft recommendation regarding the use of tracking pixels in emails. This recommendation roughly assimilates pixels and any...more

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EU: Brussels Court of Appeal Rules on IAB Europe and the TC String – Implications for GDPR Compliance

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On 14 May 2025, the Brussels Court of Appeal (Market Court) delivered the long-awaited judgement in the case concerning the Transparency & Consent Framework (“TCF”) (case no. 2022/AR/292). The Court largely upheld the...more

Hogan Lovells

EU digital advertising: IAB Europe and the allocation of liabilities for the TCF

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On May 14, 2025, the Belgian Market Court delivered a landmark ruling regarding IAB Europe’s role in the Transparency and Consent Framework (TCF). The Court confirms that TC Strings qualify as personal data and that IAB...more

Fox Rothschild LLP

Do App Permissions Satisfy Requirements for Valid Consent for the Purpose of GDPR?

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App permissions do not satisfy the requirements for valid consent for the purpose of GDPR because they lack sufficient detail and granularity, according to the Commission Nationale de l’Informatique et des Libertés (CNIL)....more

MoFo Tech

Dirty Data Damaging Deals – Data Issues in AI M&A

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2024 saw strong interest in M&A involving companies that use or develop AI offerings. The rise of AI has brought new issues for dealmakers. In particular, 2024 also saw regulators focusing further on the collection and use of...more

BakerHostetler

DSIR Deeper Dive - The Worst Cookie Recipe

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Countless hours are being spent categorizing cookies and other tracking technologies to work with consent management platforms, part of a purpose-built industry aiming to help companies deal with the increasingly complex and...more

Pillsbury - Consumer Protection Dispatch

GDPR Enforcement: Lessons from Recent Data Privacy Penalties

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Recent decisions by the French data protection authority (CNIL) have highlighted the importance of GDPR compliance, particularly in the areas of data retention, consent for processing sensitive personal data, and marketing...more

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OHRP Workshop Highlights Artificial Intelligence Uses, Concerns in Human Research

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The Department of Health and Human Services (HHS) Office for Human Research Protections (OHRP) recently held its 2024 Exploratory Workshop titled “The Evolving Landscape of Human Research with AI – Putting Ethics to Practice”...more

Bradley Arant Boult Cummings LLP

Can Privacy Be Bought? How Scrutiny of Meta’s Subscription Model Has Wider Implications –PART II

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In Part I, we discussed the European Commission’s (“Commission”) disapproval of Meta’s “pay or consent” subscription model. In Part II, we delve into the European Commission’s findings, prior findings by the European Data...more

Bradley Arant Boult Cummings LLP

Can Privacy Be Bought? How Scrutiny of Meta’s Subscription Model Has Wider Implications – PART I

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In November of 2023, Meta launched a service in the European Union that allowed users to utilize the Facebook and Instagram platforms “ad free” for a monthly fee. The subscription service was meant to address regulatory...more

A&O Shearman

European Commission takes preliminary view that social media platform’s ‘pay or consent’ model does not comply with the DMA

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On 1 July 2024, the European Commission (the ‘Commission’) announced its preliminary findings in an investigation of a leading social media platform, concluding that its ‘pay or consent’ advertising model implemented in the...more

International Lawyers Network

Data Privacy Guide - Portugal

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Introduction - Data protection is being driven by rapid technological advances and the increasing digitalization of society. Data protection legislation in Portugal is aligned with European Union law, in particular with...more

International Lawyers Network

Data Privacy Guide - Czech Republic

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Introduction - The General Data Protection Regulation (Regulation (EU) 2016/679) is the EU regulation which is directly applicable in all member states of the EU, including the Czech Republic, as of 25 May 2018. The new...more

Gardner Law

[Hybrid Event] MASTERING TOMORROW'S HEALTHCARE TECH: A CUTTING-EDGE APPROACH TO REGULATORY, COMPLIANCE, AND PRIVACY DEMANDS -...

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FDA law firm Gardner Law and EU-based Fieldfisher discuss regulatory, compliance, and privacy matters relevant to high-tech healthcare products. - - Harnessing AI and Connected Devices in Medical Innovation in an...more

Proskauer Rose LLP

Privacy and Data Security

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The very definition of generative AI suggests the creation of new content based on a program training on existing data, a recipe that necessarily raises potential U.S. and EU data privacy issues, not to mention related...more

Benesch

The Cookie Crumbles? EU Advocacy Group Files 226 Complaints Alleging Cookie Consent Violations

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Specifically, the group is alleging that websites are commonly using deceptive cookie banners that do not adhere to the GDPR’s express consent requirements. In early August, the European Union data protection advocacy...more

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[Webcast Transcript] You’ve Got to Move It: Data Protection and Privacy with Cross-Border Transfers

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...This session, led by industry-acknowledged experts in areas ranging from data protection and privacy to data transfer and legal discovery, provided a professional forum for the explanation of the best approaches,...more

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An Update on International and Cross-Border Discovery

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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

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Global Solutions Episode 6: Consent to Collect? Processing Employee COVID-19 Data

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In addition to the potential uses of contact-tracing apps, discussed recently in episode 1 of the Global Solutions series, most employers now conduct some form of employee screening or monitoring to help prevent the spread of...more

McDermott Will & Schulte

[Webinar] Ce que vous avez peut-être manqué des actualités RGPD: la montée en puissance de l’accountability? - June 25th, 1:30 pm...

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McDermott Will & Emery a le plaisir de vous convier à un webinaire sur le thème "Ce que vous avez peut-être manqué des actualités RGPD: la montée en puissance de l’accountability?" qui abordera les thèmes suivants: -...more

McDermott Will & Schulte

[Webinar] What You Might Have Missed in GDPR: The Rise of Accountability? - June 25th, 1:30 pm CEST

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In our latest webinar we will be examining what you may have missed in the development of GDPR in the current global landscape, focusing in particular on: - Data transfers outside the EU: what to do with its standard...more

Epiq

When the Cookie Crumbles: Four Reasons Why Cookie Consent Does Not Work

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It is impossible to browse the Internet without bumping into a popup window requesting consent to enable cookies on the web page. Website cookies are text files saved to devices that contain information about a person’s...more

Fox Rothschild LLP

Court Of Justice Of The EU: Detailed Consent Needed For Cookies

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The Court of Justice of the European Union has issued its Planet 49 decision. Key takeaways: A pre-checked check box is not sufficient consent for the placement of cookies....more

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Privacy and Data Security Alert | September 2019

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California Adds Biometric Restrictions to Data-Breach Law, Potentially Creating a De Facto Biometric Privacy Law Subject to the governor’s signature, California’s breach-notification law will gain additional requirements...more

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