Life with GDPR - Meta Fined €405 million by Irish Data Protection Commission
On May 14, 2025, the European Data Protection Board ("EDPB") issued a favorable opinion on granting a six-month extension to the existing adequacy decisions for the UK, following a formal proposal from the European...more
Last month, the European Data Protection Board – which is composed of the national data protection authorities (‘Supervisory Authorities’) of the countries in the European Economic Area (‘EEA’), as well as the European Data...more
In August 2020, privacy activist organization NOYB – European Center for Digital Rights filed 101 complaints with the EU Supervisory Authorities (‘SAs’) in connection with the transfer of personal data from Europe to...more
On 12 July 2022, the European Data Protection Board (EDPB) adopted Statement 02/2022 on Personal Data Transfers to the Russian Federation, in which it confirmed that data transfers to Russia require a data transfer impact...more
On March 25, 2022, the European Union (EU) announced that the United States and the EU had reached an agreement in principle to replace the EU-U.S Privacy Shield framework, which the European Court of Justice (CJEU) struck...more
It is well known that the EU GDPR (specifically, Chapter V) restricts transfers of personal data from the EU to a “third country” (i.e. a jurisdiction outside the EEA) or to an international organisation. But what is meant by...more
On November 19, 2021, the European Data Protection Board (“EDPB”) issued draft guidance on the interplay between Article 3 of the General Data Protection Regulation (“GDPR”) and the provisions on international transfers...more
Keypoint: The EDPB takes the position that geographical boundaries – and not GDPR’s jurisdictional reach – govern the restricted transfer determination. On November 19, 2021, the European Data Protection Board (EDPB)...more
The European Data Protection Board (EDPB) recently published Minutes of its last plenary meeting held in September, which sheds light on how the EDPB plans to address the biggest open issue of the new Standard Contractual...more
The European Commission adopted new versions of the Standard Contractual Clauses (SCCs) on June 4, 2021. The new SCCs finally replace the original SCCs adopted under the 1998 European Data Protection Directive (DPD) and did...more
Post Schrems II World: EDPB Adopts Recommendations on Supplementary Measures for International Data Transfers - On June 18, the European Data Protection Board (EDPB) formally adopted Version 2 of its Recommendations on...more
The guidance outlines how organisations should approach international transfers and confirms examples of supplemental measures that can be adopted to ensure ongoing compliance and seeking to de-mystify earlier uncertainty. ...more
On June 4, 2021, the European Commission adopted two new sets of standard contractual clauses (SCCs): one for data transfers from data controllers to data processors and one for data transfers from data exporters to data...more
Ending months of anxious speculation from privacy lawyers around the globe, the European Commission announced on Friday that it had adopted final versions of the new Standard Contractual Clauses (the “New SCCs”) for the...more
Orrick's Cyber, Privacy & Data Innovation and IP Licensing & Technology Transactions groups cover the top 10 things you need to know about the new Standard Contractual Clauses ("SCCs") published today by the European...more
Following the coming into effect of the GDPR three years ago and in light of last year’s Schrems II decision, the European Commission has adopted a new set of Standard Contractual Clauses (SCCs) aimed at enabling lawful...more
The current expectation is that the European Commission will issue the new SCCs in two weeks’ time (though this could be subject to delay). On 12 November 2020, the European Commission published a revised set of draft...more
On Nov. 11, 2020, the European Data Protection Board (EDPB) published eagerly anticipated guidance in the wake of the July 2020 European Court of Justice’s (ECJ) decision in Schrems II, outlining a process for ensuring data...more
Last week, both the European Data Protection Board (EDPB) and the European Commission released highly anticipated draft documents offering guidance to organizations that engage in cross-border data transfers involving EU...more
On November 10, 2020, the European Data Protection Board (“EDPB”) issued highly anticipated guidance intended to clarify how data exporters could legally transfer data to “third countries” under GDPR following the Schrems II...more
On November 10, the European Data Protection Board (“EDPB”) released its “Recommendations 01/2020 on measures that supplement transfer tools to ensure compliance with the EU level of protection of personal data” (the...more
On November 11, 2020, the European Data Protection Board (EDPB) issued two much-anticipated guidance documents, outlining the approach it expects organizations to take when transferring data out of the EU. Although these...more
On September 7, 2020, the European Data Protection Board (EDPB) published draft guidelines (Guidelines) intended to clarify the roles of the parties processing personal data and when they are operating as controllers, joint...more
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
In this month's edition, we examine the Court of Justice of the European Union's decision invalidating the EU-U.S. Privacy Shield framework, as well as the U.S. government's response to the decision. We also examine two...more