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EU-U.S. Data Privacy Framework Survives First Challenge

DLA Piper on 9/4/2025

The EU General Court has dismissed a French MEP’s challenge to the EU-U.S. Data Privacy Framework (“DPF”) for the transfer of personal data between the European Union (“EU”) and the United States (“U.S”). While the decision...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

What Companies Need to Know About the New EU-US Data Privacy Framework for Cross-Border Data Transfers

Goodwin on 7/19/2023

On July 10, 2023, the European Commission adopted an adequacy decision for the new EU-US Data Privacy Framework (“DPF”), the revamped transatlantic framework designed to support transfers of personal data from the EU to...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

Where Do We Stand?: EU to US Data Transfers

Sheppard Mullin Richter & Hampton LLP on 6/12/2023

The process for data transfers from the EU to the US under Standard Contractual Clauses has been back in the news recently, leading many to ask: will the proposed EU-US Data Privacy Framework be approved by the Europeans...more

European Commission Announces Draft U.S. Adequacy Decision

WilmerHale on 12/16/2022

On December 13, 2022, the European Commission initiated the process to adopt an adequacy decision for the EU-U.S. Data Privacy Framework (“EU-U.S. DPF”). The draft adequacy decision follows President Biden’s October Executive...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

Hamburg DPA issues optimistic stance on Executive Order for EU-U.S. Data Privacy Framework

Hogan Lovells on 12/5/2022

The Data Protection Authority (“DPA”) of the German state Hamburg is one of the first European DPA to publish an optimistic assessment on the U.S. Executive Order on “Enhancing Safeguards for United States Signals...more

Biden’s Executive Order Implementing New EU-U.S. Data Privacy Framework to Replace Privacy Shield

Robinson+Cole Data Privacy + Security Insider on 11/4/2022

President Biden recently signed an executive order establishing the implementation of the new EU-U.S. Data Privacy Framework, which would provide for the possibility of the lawful transfer of personal data from the European...more

Dr. Axel Spies Discusses Recent Executive Order on Safeguarding Personal Information

Morgan Lewis - Tech & Sourcing on 10/26/2022

US President Joseph Biden issued an Executive Order On Enhancing Safeguards for United States Signals Intelligence Activities on October 7, which establishes safeguards relating to the handling of personal information in the...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

[Webinar] EU / U.S. Data Transfers – Update - November 1st, 10:30 am - 11:30 am EST

Wiley Rein LLP on 10/25/2022

Join us for a webinar where we will focus on the details of the recently finalised and published Executive Order to Implement the European Union-U.S. Data Privacy Framework. Alongside Alex Brown of UK-headquartered...more

New Executive Order Paves Way for Streamlined International Data Transfers

Davis Wright Tremaine LLP on 10/25/2022

In March 2022, the US and EU announced they had agreed in principle to a new Trans-Atlantic Data Privacy Framework (Framework) intended to simplify transfers of personal information. After months of waiting for the final...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

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

Reviving the Privacy Shield? New US Executive Order Seeks Reinstatement of Privacy Shield for EU-US Data Transfers

Fenwick & West LLP on 10/17/2022

There is new hope for companies that transfer data from Europe to the United States that the return of a less administratively burdensome mechanism is on the horizon...more

EU To Review New EU-US Data Transfers Framework

Sheppard Mullin Richter & Hampton LLP on 10/12/2022

President Biden signed a new executive order on Friday, with a framework that seeks to replace the existing Privacy Shield program. That program was found to be an invalid mechanism for transferring personal data between the...more

EU-US Data Transfers: New Executive Order Enhances Protections, But Will It Suffice?

Morgan Lewis on 10/11/2022

US President Joseph Biden signed the long-anticipated Executive Order on Enhancing Safeguard for United States Signals Intelligence Activities (EO) on October 7, 2022, providing enhanced protections in an effort to restore...more

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

McDermott Will & Schulte 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

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