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EU Reaches a Deal on Rules for Swifter Cross-Border GDPR Enforcement

Wilson Sonsini Goodrich & Rosati on 6/19/2025

On June 16, 2025, the Council of the EU (Council) and the European Parliament (EP) reached an agreement on a new regulation (the Draft Regulation) to enhance enforcement of the General Data Protection Regulation (GDPR). The...more

CJEU publishes an updated Fact Sheet summarising key case law on protection of personal data

A&O Shearman on 5/16/2025

On April 28 2025, the Court of Justice of the European Union (CJEU) published an updated version of the fact sheet (the Fact Sheet) summarising key case law on protection of personal data. The Fact Sheet covers the case law...more

Six Months Until Enforcement: Key Compliance Steps for Saudi Arabia’s Data Protection Law

Latham & Watkins LLP on 3/13/2024

The PDPL has broad extraterritorial scope and substantial penalties for non-compliance, with full enforcement expected to start in September. The Personal Data Protection Law (PDPL) is the first comprehensive data...more

The EU-U.S. “Data Privacy Framework”: A New Solution for the Free Flow of Personal Data

Pillsbury Winthrop Shaw Pittman LLP on 7/27/2023

U.S. companies can now self-certify to permit personal data to freely flow from the Europe to the United States. U.S. organizations can now self-certify their compliance with the EU-U.S. Data Privacy Framework (DPF) to...more

European Commission Approves EU-U.S. Data Privacy Framework, Paving Way for Streamlined Transfers of Personal Data

Davis Wright Tremaine LLP on 7/14/2023

Swiftly on the heels of the U.S. announcing it fulfilled its commitments for implementing the EU-U.S. Data Privacy Framework (the Framework), the European Commission (the EC) formally recognized that commercial organizations...more

Data Protection in the British Virgin Islands

Walkers on 2/9/2023

The British Virgin Islands ("BVI") Data Protection Act, 2021 ("DPA") came into force on 9 July 2021. It was introduced so the BVI would have a data protection framework which is broadly similar to EU and UK standards. To...more

Connecticut Likely to Become Fifth State to Enact Comprehensive Consumer Privacy Law

Jackson Lewis P.C. on 5/4/2022

When the California Consumer Privacy Act of 2018 (CCPA) became law, it was only a matter of time before other states adopted their own statutes intending to enhance privacy rights and consumer protection for their residents. ...more

Virginia Is For [Data Privacy] Lovers: Introduction to Virginia's New Consumer Protection Law

Bracewell LLP on 12/8/2021

On January 1, 2023, the Virginia Consumer Data Protection Act (VCDPA) will go into effect. With passage of the law earlier this year, Virginia joined Colorado and California as the only states to enact comprehensive privacy...more

The Past, Present and Future of US Privacy Law

WilmerHale on 7/8/2021

Despite its antecedents in one of the most widely cited law review articles of all time from more than 130 years ago, modern United States privacy law is roughly twenty years old. Even though still in its relative infancy,...more

Colorado Introduces A Comprehensive Consumer Privacy Bill

Jackson Lewis P.C. on 3/31/2021

Colorado recently become the latest state to consider a comprehensive consumer privacy law. On March 19, 2021, Colorado State Senators Rodriguez and Lundeen introduced SB 21-190, entitled “an Act Concerning additional...more

Current Trends in European Competition Law Spark Proposal of New Tool

Epiq on 11/24/2020

Globally, competition regulators have increased their attention to digital companies since big tech firms and dual platforms have the capabilities to gain disproportional advantages. Competition and antitrust laws aim to...more

Brazil's LGPD Takes Effect—With Early Enforcement

McDermott Will & Schulte on 9/29/2020

Brazil represents over half of all IT spend in Latin America, has the largest regional market for software outsourcing, employs a sizable IT workforce, manufactures consumer goods (including commercial airplanes and cars) and...more

Chapter 14: Data Protection Authorities – Unlocking the EU General Data Protection Regulation

White & Case LLP on 4/22/2019

Why does this topic matter to organisations? National Data Protection Authorities ("DPAs") are appointed to implement and enforce data protection law, and to offer guidance. As set out in Chapter 16, DPAs have significant...more

Extraterritorial Application of The GDPR

Dorsey & Whitney LLP on 11/5/2018

The EU General Data Protection Regulation (GDPR), which is billed as the most important development in data privacy regulation in at least 20 years, arrived with a bang in May of this year and companies have been scrambling...more

The California Consumer Privacy Act of 2018

Proskauer on Privacy on 7/16/2018

This has been a big year in the data protection world, with the headline-grabbing General Data Protection Regulation (GDPR) occupying most of the spotlight with its plethora of privacy-related requirements and potential for...more

A paradise for data privacy advocates - Bermuda’s privacy law now in full effect

Eversheds Sutherland (US) LLP on 4/13/2018

With enactment of the Personal Information Protection Act (PIPA), Bermuda can now count itself among the ever-expanding list of jurisdictions with enhanced privacy protections. PIPA, passed on July 27, 2016, and entered into...more

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