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Italy: Marketing Privacy Consent – Is Double Opt-In Now Mandatory?

DLA Piper on 7/8/2025

A recent and far-reaching decision by the Italian Data Protection Authority (Garante) has significantly altered the rules governing marketing privacy consent in Italy, introducing a potential obligation to adopt a double...more

Dutch DPA intensifies cookie enforcement – key takeaways

Hogan Lovells on 4/28/2025

On 15 April 2025, the Dutch Data Protection Authority (DPA) issued warnings to 50 organisations, including online retailers, media companies, and insurers, for deploying misleading cookie banners or unlawfully placing...more

Just a Minor Threat: Online Safety Legislation Takes Off

Morrison & Foerster LLP - Social Media on 2/21/2025

The year 2025 is certain to be a watershed for social media legislation and litigation. As it continues to shape how we connect, share, and consume information, social media remains at the forefront of public discourse due to...more

GDPR Enforcement: Lessons from Recent Data Privacy Penalties

Pillsbury - Consumer Protection Dispatch on 10/15/2024

Recent decisions by the French data protection authority (CNIL) have highlighted the importance of GDPR compliance, particularly in the areas of data retention, consent for processing sensitive personal data, and marketing...more

CNIL Fines Health Website for Unlawful Data Processing

Latham & Watkins LLP on 6/12/2023

The French Data Protection Authority imposed a €280,000 fine for GDPR infringements and a €100,000 fine for violation of French cookie rules. On 11 May 2023 the French Data Protection Authority (the CNIL) handed down its...more

The Battle of the Bills Begins: Proposed Federal Data Privacy Legislation Aims to End Patchwork Problem But Increases Enforcement

Bracewell LLP on 3/19/2021

After years of advocacy from both sides of the aisle and growing concerns about challenges created by state-based solutions, 2021 is poised to be a bellwether year for Congressional debate over federal data privacy...more

Privacy Moves to the East Coast: Virginia Set to Enact Comprehensive Consumer Data Protection Law

Bradley Arant Boult Cummings LLP on 2/8/2021

Virginia is primed to become the next U.S. state to pass comprehensive data-privacy legislation with striking similarities to the California Consumers Privacy Act (CCPA), the California Privacy Rights Act (CPRA), and the...more

French State Council Upholds CNIL’s €50M Fine for GDPR Violations

Latham & Watkins LLP on 7/6/2020

The Council decision contains useful considerations and clarifications on the “one-stop shop” mechanism, transparency obligations, and consent for targeted advertising. On 19 June 2020, France’s Highest Administrative...more

GDPR Guide to National Implementation: Croatia - A practical guide to national GDPR compliance requirements across the EEA

White & Case LLP on 11/23/2019

Q1/ Applicable legislation - (a) Have the requirements of the GDPR been addressed by introducing a new law, or by updating existing legislation? New legislation has been passed. ...more

GDPR Guide to National Implementation - A practical guide to national GDPR compliance requirements across the EEA

White & Case LLP on 11/14/2019

Foreword - European data protection laws have made significant strides in the last two decades. Privacy and data protection laws have undergone dramatic changes over the last 20 years, in a race to keep up with technology....more

A Year of GDPR: Five Recommendations to Help Limit Regulatory Scrutiny

Akin Gump Strauss Hauer & Feld LLP on 5/31/2019

A year ago, on May 25, 2018, the European Union’s General Data Protection Regulation (GDPR) came into force. With its extraterritorial scope and detailed requirements, the GDPR aimed to change the approach to personal data...more

March 2019 IP Update: Europe’s One-Stop Shop for Privacy Regulation: For EU Companies Only?

Sunstein LLP on 4/17/2019

One key aspect of the EU’s General Data Protection Regulation (GDPR) is its aim of streamlining the regulatory process by providing “one-stop shopping”: the opportunity to deal with a single regulator with respect to all data...more

What Companies Can Learn From CNIL’s Privacy Consent Cases on Targeted Marketing

Latham & Watkins LLP on 3/28/2019

The closure of four cases involving targeted advertising provides lessons for navigating compliance standards under the GDPR. The recent closure of cases brought by the French Data Protection Authority (CNIL) against four...more

GDPR Alert: Google Gets Biggest Fine Ever Issued by a European Data Protection Authority

Foley Hoag LLP - Security, Privacy and the... on 1/23/2019

On 21 January 2019, the French Data Protection Authority (the “French DPA”) fined Google LLC 50 million euros for breach of the GDPR. As we reported on this blog, just after GDPR became applicable, noyb.eu (None of Your...more

Privacy & Cybersecurity Update - August 2018

Skadden, Arps, Slate, Meagher & Flom LLP on 9/7/2018

In this month's edition of our Privacy & Cybersecurity Update, we examine Brazil's new data protection regulation, the French data protection authority's warning to two companies of potential GDPR violations and the U.S....more

EU General Data Protection Regulation: A Summary for Non-EU Businesses

Vedder Price on 7/24/2017

The EU’s General Data Protection Regulation (679/2016/EU), the GDPR, comes into force across the EU on 25 May 2018. As it is being made by regulation the GDPR, unlike the existing Data Protection Directive (implemented into...more

An Overview of the New General Data Protection Regulation

Proskauer on Privacy on 8/3/2016

The European Parliament has approved the reformed General Data Protection Regulation (the “GDPR”). Given this is a Regulation (rather than a Directive), this legislation will apply automatically in every Member State (without...more

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