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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 -

Antitrust and Competition Technology Year in Review 2024

Goodwin on 3/17/2025

As we look back on 2024, one thing is clear: Antitrust enforcement in the technology sector continued at a steady pace, with global agencies showing no signs of relenting in their scrutiny of Big Tech companies....more

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

Bradley Arant Boult Cummings LLP on 7/24/2024

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

Antitrust & Competition Technology Quarterly Update - Q1 2023

Goodwin on 6/15/2023

The start of 2023 has been a busy one, with global antitrust agencies advancing investigations and challenging a number of technology acquisitions. Future antitrust enforcement could also be shaped by new digital market...more

Antitrust & Competition Technology Quarterly Update - Q3 2022

Goodwin on 11/10/2022

Two major technology companies, Meta and Microsoft, continue to defend their acquisitions against challenges from antitrust regulators. The FTC dropped one of the two claims underlying its challenge of Meta’s acquisition of...more

Financial Daily Dose 12.11.2020 | Top Story: Banner Airbnb Public Trading Debut Has Some Worrying About Tech Bubble

Robins Kaplan LLP on 12/11/2020

Because too much of a good thing is always trouble (especially on Wall Street), market watchers are warning of a new tech bubble after Airbnb’s monster IPO on Thursday. The home-sharing app’s shares rose more than 112% to...more

Financial Daily Dose 2.12.2020 | Top Story: Big Tech Antitrust Update

Robins Kaplan LLP on 2/12/2020

Big-Tech/Antitrust Update: the FTC has demanded information from Amazon.com Inc., Apple Inc., Facebook Inc., Microsoft Corp., and Alphabet Inc. regarding acquisitions of small firms over the past 10 years that may have been...more

Financial Daily Dose 12.13.2019 | Top Story: US Announces Phase One Trade Agreement With China, But No Confirmation From Chinese

Robins Kaplan LLP on 12/13/2019

The US and China have reportedly reached an initial agreement on the “final terms of a phase one trade deal, moving both countries closer to signing a pact that” the White House originally announced in October and averting...more

Gaining Data Privacy Compliance When Regulations Have Global Reach

Mitratech Holdings, Inc on 8/21/2019

While GDPR has been active as a regulation since May 2018, the first fines have just started to hit companies for data breaches. Announced by the ICO on July 8 2019, they intend to fine British Airways £183.39 million for...more

Privacy and Data Security Alert | August 2019

Shook, Hardy & Bacon L.L.P. on 8/6/2019

French Data Protection Authority Issues Guidelines on Cookie Use - CNIL, France’s data protection authority, has released new rulesfor obtaining consumer consent under the GDPR for companies using cookies and other tracking...more

When the Privacy Watchdogs Bare Their Teeth

Barnea Jaffa Lande & Co. on 7/26/2019

July 2019 brought an escalation in the enforcement of privacy infringements by companies around the world. The trend began with a press release published on July 8, 2019, of a fine in the approximate amount of GBP 183 million...more

Privacy and Data Security Client Alert | February 2019

Shook, Hardy & Bacon L.L.P. on 2/7/2019

Google Receives Record GDPR Fine - Marking the first major penalty against a U.S. tech company under the General Data Protection Regulation (GDPR), the French data-protection authority, CNIL, has fined Google a record $57...more

Skadden's 2019 Insights: European Data Protection and Cybersecurity in 2019

Skadden, Arps, Slate, Meagher & Flom LLP on 1/25/2019

Data protection laws in Europe evolved substantially in 2018, with the implementation of the General Data Protection Regulation (GDPR) and the Directive on Security of Network and Information Systems (NIS Directive) becoming...more

EU Commission Recommends Suspension of Privacy Shield; Recent FTC Efforts May Be Too Little Too Late

Harris Beach Murtha PLLC on 7/6/2018

On July 5, 2018, the EU Parliament passed a non-binding resolution encouraging the European Commission to suspend the EU-US Privacy Shield Program unless the US is fully compliant by September 1, 2018. The EU Parliament...more

The Digital Download - Alston & Bird’s Privacy & Data Security Newsletter - October 2017

Alston & Bird on 10/4/2017

An English-Language Primer on Germany’s GDPR Implementation Statute. Expanding on his recent article for Bloomberg BNA, Alston & Bird associate Dan Felz offers a multipart primer on Germany’s new GDPR implementation statute....more

Your daily dose of financial news - The Brief – 7.22.16

Robins Kaplan LLP on 7/22/2016

EU financial watchdog ESMA has fined rating agency Fitch Ratings Ltd. $1.5 million for reportedly violating the EU’s rules for rating agencies relating to the 12-hour requirement, internal controls, and unauthorized...more

Data Transfer Without Safe Harbors

Womble Bond Dickinson on 6/8/2016

European privacy law is a bold new world for U.S. businesses doing business in Europe. An October Court of Justice ruling struck down the Safe Harbor arrangement which had governed E.U.-U.S. data transfer transactions for...more

Socially Aware: The Social Media Law Update Volume 7, Issue 2

Morrison & Foerster LLP - Social Media on 3/9/2016

Welcome to the newest issue of Socially Aware, our Burton Award winning guide to the law and business of social media. In this edition, we offer tips for a successful—and legal—advertising campaign; we examine a New York...more

Privacy & Cybersecurity Update - January 2016

Skadden, Arps, Slate, Meagher & Flom LLP on 2/2/2016

In this edition of our Privacy & Cybersecurity Update, we discuss, among other matters, the status of the EU/U.S. Safe Harbor negotiations, as well as changes to privacy laws in Delaware and California that regulate online...more

Means, Other Than Safe Harbor, of Transferring Personal Data to the U.S. Potentially Vitiated?

McGuireWoods LLP on 10/16/2015

After the decision of October 6, 2015, of the Court of Justice of the EU (CJEU) invalidating the decision from the EU Commission (Decision 2000/520) on the Safe Harbor, transfer of personal data to the U.S. based on Standard...more

FTC's Safe Harbor for Data Transfers Declared Invalid

Faegre Drinker Biddle & Reath LLP on 10/13/2015

The Court of Justice of the European Union has issued a landmark judgment in Schrems v Data Protection Commissioner (Case C-362/14) that invalidates the Federal Trade Commission’s (FTC) Safe Harbor Framework. The decision has...more

Transfer of Employees’ Personal Data from Germany to the United States under German Data Privacy Law

K&L Gates LLP on 10/12/2015

Following the ECJ’s decision in the “Schrems” case which has invalidated the Safe Harbor framework multinational corporations may now face profound privacy law related compliance issues in a multitude of jurisdictions. In the...more

EU Court Rejects “Safe Harbor” Agreement Permitting Customer Data Transfers to U.S.

Sheppard Mullin Richter & Hampton LLP on 10/8/2015

The European Court of Justice (ECJ) has struck down the 15-year-old “Safe Harbor” agreement that permitted companies operating in Europe to transmit personal user data to the United States, as long as the U.S. ensures an...more

Privacy Monday, September 28, 2015: More on US-EU Safe Harbor — what’s next?

Mintz - Privacy & Cybersecurity Viewpoints on 9/28/2015

We will be following up our post last week regarding the latest US-EU Safe Harbor decision out of Europe with further analysis both from the Mintz Privacy team and our international network of privacy specialists. Our...more

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