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Right To Know - April 2025, Vol. 28

Clark Hill PLC on 4/11/2025

Welcome to your monthly rundown of all things cyber, privacy, and technology, where we highlight all the happenings you may have missed. ...more

Privacy Points 2024: Recap and What to Watch For in 2024

Benesch on 1/18/2024

Last year proved to be a big year in data protection with U.S. state data protection laws popping up across the country, the FTC updating its guidance and regulations on everything from data breaches and biometric...more

A new scheme is in place to allow U.S. organisations to import and use personal data from the European Union - should every...

Dorsey & Whitney LLP on 9/13/2023

On 10 July 2023, the European Commission adopted its adequacy decision for the EU-U.S. Data Privacy Framework (“DPF”). The adequacy decision is designed to relieve U.S.-based businesses and other institutions and...more

Is the Third Time the Charm? The EU-US Data Privacy Framework

Bass, Berry & Sims PLC on 7/24/2023

On July 10, the European Commission issued an adequacy decision on the EU-US Data Privacy Framework (DPF), ensuring adequate protection for personal data transferred from the European Union to the United States. This decision...more

New EU-US Data Transfer Framework Finalized: What Does the Future Hold?

Epiq on 7/19/2023

With data privacy landscapes changing around the globe, how can organizations handle cross-border deals while still remaining compliant? This has been a burning question over recent years....more

The New EU-U.S. Data Privacy Framework in Half a Dozen FAQs

BakerHostetler on 7/13/2023

On July 10, 1962, NASA launched Telstar 1, the first active communications satellite linking Europe and the United States through live television transmission. Sixty-one years later, on July 10, 2023, the European Commission...more

Client Alert: European Commission’s Adequacy Decision Sets Standards for US Companies to Receive Personal Data from EU Under the...

Neal, Gerber & Eisenberg LLP on 7/13/2023

On July 10, 2023, the European Commission concluded that the US ensures an adequate level of protection for personal data transferred from the European Union to US companies under the new EU-US Data Privacy Framework. Based...more

Significant improvements for international transfers of personal data - adequacy decision for the new EU-U.S. Data Privacy...

WilmerHale on 7/12/2023

On July 10, 2023, the European Commission adopted its long-awaited adequacy decision for the EU-U.S. Data Privacy Framework (“Adequacy Decision”). This ends a three-year journey to set up a successor to the EU-U.S. Privacy...more

EU Takes Step Toward Approval of EU-US Data Privacy Framework

Perkins Coie on 1/25/2023

As U.S.-based companies await a decision by the European Union (EU) regarding data transfers, the European process for approving the EU-U.S. data privacy framework has progressed a step. The European Commission released a...more

UK GDPR Restrictions on Personal Data Transfers to South Korea are Lifted

WilmerHale on 12/8/2022

In November 2022, the UK Government announced that it had put in place UK GDPR ‘adequacy regulations’ in respect of South Korea (the Republic of Korea (“ROK”)). These new regulations will allow UK based organisations to...more

Looking to a New EU-US Data Privacy Framework

Foley Hoag LLP - Security, Privacy and the... on 11/1/2022

As we wrote in July 2020, the European Court of Justice issued a landmark decision that invalidated the Privacy Shield as untenable under the European General Data Protection Regulation (GDPR). The decision sparked...more

President Biden Issues Executive Order Providing for New EU-U.S. Data Privacy Framework

Ogletree, Deakins, Nash, Smoak & Stewart,... on 10/26/2022

On October 7, 2022, President Biden signed Executive Order (EO) 14086, “Enhancing Safeguards for United States Signals Intelligence Activities,” which provides a new framework for legal data transfers between the European...more

Is Privacy Shield 2.0 on the Horizon?

BCLP on 10/24/2022

On October 7, President Joe Biden signed an Executive Order (EO) on Enhancing Safeguards for United States Signals Intelligence Activities, which is intended to move forward next steps in the EU US Privacy Shield Framework...more

October 2022 AFS Privacy Report: California Privacy Protection Agency Releases Updated Draft Regulations Ahead of October 28-29...

ArentFox Schiff on 10/24/2022

California Privacy Protection Agency Releases Revised Regulations - With the effective date less than three months away, and ahead of a Board Meeting on October 28 and 29, the California Privacy Protection Agency released...more

EU-U.S. and UK-U.S. Data Transfer Deals Advance with White House Executive Order

Proskauer on Privacy on 10/20/2022

A new legal mechanism to allow for transfers of personal data between the EU and the U.S. is now advancing after an October 7th, 2022 Executive Order was issued by U.S. President Biden (the “Executive Order”). The new...more

Biden Executive Order Seeks to Solidify European Union-U.S. Data Privacy Framework

White & Case LLP on 10/20/2022

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

Breaking Data Development: New Privacy Protections for US-EU Transfers Coming

Epiq on 10/19/2022

Yet another international data transfer update recently materialized. On October 7, President Biden signed an executive order directing the steps to implement a new data privacy framework. This would apply to the flow of...more

The EU-U.S. Trans-Atlantic Data Privacy Framework Moves Closer to Approval: Why It Matters for Your Business

Lowenstein Sandler LLP on 10/18/2022

President Biden recently signed the Executive Order on Enhancing Safeguards for United States Signals Intelligence Activities and supporting regulations (collectively, the “Executive Order”), enhancing privacy and civil...more

Key Takeaways from the Latest Developments in the EU-U.S. Data Deal

McDermott Will & Emery on 10/11/2022

In a string of executive actions unveiled on October 7, 2022, the U.S. government took steps to implement the EU-U.S. Data Privacy Framework (DPF), the third attempt to secure trans-Atlantic data flows after the European...more

President Biden Issues Executive Order Regarding Signals Intelligence Activities, Clearing Way for New Trans-Atlantic Data Privacy...

Perkins Coie on 10/11/2022

President Biden issued an executive order (EO) increasing protections and safeguards for personal data subject to signals intelligence activities. It also establishes a redress mechanism for residents of qualifying states who...more

President Biden Enacts New Executive Order On EU-US Data Flow Agreement; EU Adequacy Decision Forthcoming

Benesch on 10/11/2022

The Executive Order hopes to address what had been shortcomings in the previous Safe Harbor and Privacy Shield programs that were struck down by EU courts in 2015 and 2020 respectively. On October 7, 2022, President...more

Data & Privacy Update: Six Most Significant Developments Companies Need to Know About

Williams Mullen on 6/18/2021

There have been a number of significant legal and policy developments recently related to data and cybersecurity. Some of the most important are...more

Privacy Report: Senators Introduce Bipartisan Bill to Update Children’s Online Privacy Rules

ArentFox Schiff on 6/9/2021

The legislation updates the Children’s Online Privacy Protection Act (COPPA) by prohibiting internet companies from collecting personal information from anyone 13- to 15-years old without the user’s consent Senators...more

European High Court Invalidates EU-U.S. Privacy Shield but Upholds Standard Contractual Clauses with Additional Safeguards

Foley & Lardner LLP on 7/21/2020

On July 16, 2020, the Court of Justice of the European Union (CJEU) issued its anxiously-awaited judgment in the Schrems II case. The CJEU’s decision upheld the Standard Contractual Clauses (SCCs) but, somewhat surprisingly,...more

Privacy Shield: The International Data Transfer Scheme Struck Down

Pillsbury Winthrop Shaw Pittman LLP on 7/17/2020

Trans-Atlantic transfer scheme relied on by thousands of EU and U.S. organisations to transfer personal data from the EU to the U.S. deemed invalid by the Court of Justice of the European Union (CJEU). Privacy Shield has...more

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