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Irish Data Protection Commission Fines TikTok Over EEA Data Transfers to China

Maynard Nexsen on 5/12/2025

On May 2, 2025, the Irish Data Protection Commission (“DPC”) issued a decision, as lead supervisory authority, finding that TikTok infringed the GDPR regarding (a) its cross-border transfers of EEA User Data to China, and (b)...more

AI News Roundup – China looking to set global AI standards, reconstruction of ancient writings, growth of AI summarization, and...

McDonnell Boehnen Hulbert & Berghoff LLP on 8/20/2024

To help you stay on top of the latest news, our AI practice group has compiled a roundup of the developments we are following....more

Navigating Cross-Border eDiscovery Issues in the Wake of a U.S. Adequacy Determination

Lighthouse on 9/27/2023

At Lighthouse our teams have the benefit of working across numerous clients, cases, and jurisdictions. As a result, we are building deep institutional knowledge across many aspects of eDiscovery that may be more difficult for...more

Data Privacy + Cybersecurity Insider - October 2022 - #3

Robinson & Cole LLP on 10/26/2022

CYBERSECURITY - CISA Lists Top CVEs Exploited by Chinese State-Sponsored Cyber Actors - The Cybersecurity & Infrastructure Security Agency (CISA) recently issued an Alert outlining the top Common Vulnerabilities and...more

China Releases Standard Contractual Clauses for Cross-Border Data Transfers

Morgan Lewis on 7/12/2022

The Cyberspace Administration of China released for public consultation its long-awaited template for the cross-border data transfer agreement on June 30, 2022, under the draft Provisions on the Prescribed Agreement on...more

Colorado Attorney General Seeks Rulemaking Comments for the Colorado Privacy Act

ArentFox Schiff on 4/8/2022

Colorado Attorney General Seeks Rulemaking Comments for the Colorado Privacy Act - With the Notice of Proposed Rulemaking set for fall 2022, Colorado’s Attorney General office is currently inviting preliminary comments for...more

The Digital Download – Alston & Bird’s Privacy, Cyber & Data Strategy Newsletter – February 2022

Alston & Bird on 2/9/2022

Selected Developments in U.S. Law - SEC Proposed Rule Will Require Private Funds to Report Certain Cyber Events On January 26, 2022, the U.S. Securities and Exchange Commission (SEC) proposed new rules to enhance hedge fund...more

Privacy Roundup Part Two: Significant International Updates

Epiq on 1/12/2022

Last week’s blog detailed the wave of state legislation that occurred in the U.S. during 2021. It is no surprise that there were also many data privacy developments abroad. It is crucial that organizations affected by...more

2021 Data Privacy Overview: New Regulations and Guidance

Lighthouse on 1/12/2022

While everyone hoped that 2021 would be less tumultuous than 2020, it certainly did not turn out that way in the end. The same was true in the world of data privacy – with sweeping new data protection regulations and guidance...more

What U.S. Companies Should Expect from China’s New Data Privacy Laws

Epiq on 12/1/2021

China had a lot of legislative movement in the area of data privacy this year. On June 10, 2021, the Data Security Law (DSL) was passed and it became effective on Sept. 1, 2021. This is a broader law applying to data...more

China Promulgates New Personal Information Protection Law

WilmerHale on 8/31/2021

China’s Personal Information Protection Law (PIPL or the final version), following the first two readings in October 2020 and April 2021, was adopted on August 20, 2021 and will become effective on November 1, 2021. The final...more

The new PRC Personal Information Protection Law – Are global organizations ready for the changes (from an employment perspective)?

A&O Shearman on 8/31/2021

On 20 August 2020, the Standing Committee of the National People’s Congress passed the new PRC Personal Information Protection Law (PIPL), which will come into operation on 1 November 2021. The PIPL has a territorial reach...more

China's New Data Privacy Law is Sweeping and Serious: Avoid the High Cost of Noncompliance

Bracewell LLP on 8/25/2021

Last Friday, China passed the world’s harshest data privacy law, threatening violators with fines of up to 50 million Yuan (or about $7.7 million at the time of publication) or 5% of annual revenue. The Personal Information...more

Personal Information Protection Law: China’s GDPR Is Coming

Morgan Lewis on 8/24/2021

China’s long-awaited Personal Information Protection Law (PIPL), after two rounds of draft versions, was finally passed by the Standing Committee of the National People's Congress on August 20, 2021, with the law effective...more

Updata: Your quarterly privacy & cybersecurity update - April to June 2021

Eversheds Sutherland (US) LLP on 7/16/2021

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

As States and Nations Continue to Enact Comprehensive Data Privacy Legislation, Pressure Mounts on the U.S. to Pass a Competing...

Royer Cooper Cohen Braunfeld LLC on 6/22/2021

Global data privacy legislation has steadily advanced over the past several years, with one of the most comprehensive and well-known laws being the General Data Protection Regulation (GDPR), governing personal data...more

Financial Daily Dose 8.17.2020 | Top Story: White House Sets 90-day Deadline for TikTok Owner to Divest in U.S.

Robins Kaplan LLP on 8/18/2020

The White House has “doubled down” on its recent actions against TikTok by “formally giving ByteDance, the Chinese owner of the popular video-sharing app, 90 days to divest from its American assets and any data that TikTok...more

Coronavirus and Data Protection: Europe’s Data Protection Authorities’ Views

Hogan Lovells on 3/17/2020

Data protection authorities from around the world are stepping in to provide their input and guidance on the matter of data processing activities and the fight against the coronavirus. Hogan Lovells’ global Privacy and...more

Guidance from E.U. Supervisory Authorities on Data Processing in a Time of COVID-19

Orrick, Herrington & Sutcliffe LLP on 3/17/2020

The European Data Protection Board (EDPB) and a number of European data protection supervisory authorities have recently issued guidance on processing personal data, including special categories of personal data (i.e., health...more

Coronavirus v. GDPR: Suspending Data Privacy Protection During Civil Crisis - The eData Guide To GDPR

Morgan Lewis on 3/10/2020

The EU General Data Protection Regulation allows the temporary suspension of some data-protection rights in times of crisis, such as the outbreak of the 2019 Novel Coronavirus. This installment of The eData Guide to GDPR...more

Data Privacy + Cybersecurity Insider - February 2020 #2

Robinson & Cole LLP on 2/14/2020

Ransomware Attacks Predicted to Occur Every 11 Seconds in 2021 with a Cost of $20 Billion - Confirming what we are seeing in the field, cybersecurity firm Cybersecurity Ventures has predicted that, globally, businesses in...more

A new model for obtaining data protection consents: unbundling the proposed amendments to China's Personal Information Security...

Hogan Lovells on 5/14/2019

On 1 February, 2019, the National Information Security Standardization Technical Committee issued an amended version of the GB/T 35372-2017 Information Technology – Personal Information Security Specification for public...more

Privacy, Cybersecurity, and the Internet of Things in Asia: What to Expect in 2019

Hogan Lovells on 1/15/2019

Increasing numbers of initiatives, devices, and solutions related to the Internet of Things (IoT) are substantially impacting the development of cybersecurity and data privacy regulations throughout Asia. ...more

Busting the Myth: Compliance with the ‘Gold Standard’ of the GDPR Does Not Buy You a ‘Free Pass’ Under China’s New Personal...

Hogan Lovells on 11/14/2018

On December 29, 2017, the Standardization Administration of China, jointly with the PRC General Administration of Quality Supervision, Inspection and Quarantine, issued the Information Security Technology – Personal...more

International News: Focus on Health Care - Fall 2017

McDermott Will & Schulte on 9/5/2017

Nationalism and Cross-Border M&A: Navigating Populist Politics in Deal Making - More than half of the G20 countries voted-in campaigns that focused on harming foreign, outside interests as a means to strengthen domestic...more

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