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
On 19 March 2025, the European Data Protection Board published an updated procedure for co-operation between EU data protection supervisory authorities approving GDPR Binding Corporate Rules for intra-group transfers of EU...more
On March 18, 2025, the European Commission proposed to extend its adequacy decision in favor of the United Kingdom (‘UK’) for an additional six-month period. This would allow free flows of personal data from the EU to the UK...more
The second half of 2024 saw a myriad of Artificial Intelligence (AI) related legal and regulatory developments for the EU and UK, critically with the EU AI Act coming into force on 1 August 2024. This has been followed by...more
This series of blogs rounds up some of the key data protection regulatory trends we have seen during 2024, focused on the EU and UK. 2024 has seen behavioural advertising and cookies continue to dominate the agenda of...more
The EDPB launched a website auditing tool to help legal and technical auditors at data protection authorities check whether websites are compliant with the law on 29 January 2024. Controllers and processors can also use the...more
ust over a year ago, on 21 April 2022, the seven economies (Canada, Japan, the Republic of Korea, the Philippines, Singapore, Taiwan, and the USA) participating in the Asia-Pacific Economic Cooperation (APEC) Cross-Border...more
The updated reform legislation provides welcome guidance and clarifications on aspects such as legitimate interests and accountability, without substantially shifting the approach proposed under the existing reform bill. ...more
When it comes to website privacy compliance, cookies have consistently presented the most fraught issues for U.S. businesses. This is especially true for those businesses that find themselves in a sometimes new or often...more
Areas of interest include anonymisation, “recognised legitimate interests”, and the ICO’s role. The UK Data Protection and Digital Information Bill (the Bill) sets out the government’s proposals for reforming the current...more
Data subject access requests (DSARs) are a cornerstone of the data protection regime, being fundamental in helping individuals to exercise their rights. If individuals do not know what information an organisation has about...more
United Kingdom New Standard Contractual Clauses Submitted to Parliament - The United Kingdom has finalized its new International Data Transfer Agreement and Addendum to the new EU standard contractual clauses. Subject to...more
The dust has settled on the new EU standard contractual clauses for cross-border data transfers (“New SCCs”), but confusion still reins on how the New SCCs cover data transfers and what companies need to do to take advantage...more
Personal data can continue to flow freely between Europe and the United Kingdom (UK) following an agreement by the European Union (EU) to adopt an Adequacy Decision under Article 45 of Regulation 2016/679 (the General Data...more
Welcome to the latest edition of Updata - the international update from Eversheds Sutherland’s dedicated Privacy and Cybersecurity team. Updata provides you with a compilation of privacy and cybersecurity regulatory and...more
Companies have three months to prepare to use the latest standard contractual clauses for new data transfers, and 18 months to migrate existing arrangements. On 4 June 2021, the European Commission released its...more
The European Commission published a draft Adequacy Decision for the UK on 19 February. That document remains in draft, though it is understood to have successfully cleared the last formal approval stage required....more
The European Commission’s long-awaited updates to the Standard Contractual Clauses (“SCCs”) have arrived. Data protection lawyers globally have eagerly anticipated these changes, which are necessary to address a legal...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
On 14 April 2021, the European Data Protection Board ("EDPB") announced that it had adopted two Opinions on the draft UK adequacy decisions issued by the European Commission on 19 February 2021. The EDPB’s take on the draft...more
This quarterly update highlights some of the international data protection issues that have caught our attention, and the attention of our clients, in the past three months....more
Brexit has raised many questions regarding the future of data protection and digital trade. Whilst the UK’s incorporation of the General Data Protection Regulation (GDPR) into domestic law in January 2020 eased some...more
News of the European Commission’s draft Decision that the UK ensures an adequate level of protection for personal data transferred from the EU to the UK can only have been greeted by with a sigh of relief by businesses both...more
2021 promises to be an exciting year in the data and privacy space. With the adoption of technologies that collect, analyze, aggregate, distribute and share data, and the implementation of new laws and regulations in...more
On February 19, the European Commission (EC) published the draft of its much hoped-for adequacy decision for transfers of personal data to the UK under the EU General Data Protection Regulation (EU GDPR) (Draft Adequacy...more