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Data in the Balance: Political Influence on EU-U.S. Data Transfers

Ogletree, Deakins, Nash, Smoak & Stewart,... on 4/4/2025

In politically uncertain times, is your organisation’s data transfer compliance unquestionable? The EU-U.S. Data Privacy Framework (DPF) serves as a useful mechanism for transatlantic data transfers, and it can assist...more

Latombe Case: First hearing for annulment of the EU-U.S. Data Privacy Framework

Hogan Lovells on 4/3/2025

On April 1st, 2025, the General Court of the European Union held its first hearing on the request initiated by member of French parliament Philippe Latombe for annulment of the EU-U.S. Data Privacy Framework (“DPF”) further...more

Brussels Regulatory Brief: August-September 2023

K&L Gates LLP on 10/2/2023

ANTITRUST AND COMPETITION - The European Commission’s Merger Simplification Package Enters Into Force - On 20 April 2023, the European Commission (Commission) adopted a new legislative package that entered into force on 1...more

Adequacy for the US (kind of) – But What Are the Side Effects?

Seyfarth Shaw LLP on 7/26/2023

On July 10th, the European Commission issued its Implementing Decision regarding the adequacy of the EU-UD Data Privacy Framework (“DPF”). The Decision has been eagerly awaited by US and Europe based commerce, hoping it will...more

New EU-US Data Privacy Framework (DPF)

Barnea Jaffa Lande & Co. on 7/24/2023

The European Commission published a very significant adequacy decision last week, which is expected to facilitate transfers of personal information from Europe to the United States. The decision came as part of the...more

Is the Third Time the Charm? The EU-US Data Privacy Framework

Bass, Berry & Sims PLC on 7/24/2023

On July 10, the European Commission issued an adequacy decision on the EU-US Data Privacy Framework (DPF), ensuring adequate protection for personal data transferred from the European Union to the United States. This decision...more

Global Cross Border Privacy Rules and the new initiatives to support data free flow with trust

A&O Shearman on 7/19/2023

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

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

New EU-US Data Privacy Framework—Reliable Solution for Transatlantic Data Transfers or Gateway to Schrems III?

K&L Gates LLP on 7/13/2023

In a Nutshell - On 10 July 2023—nearly three years to the day after the Schrems II decision of the Court of Justice for the European Union (CJEU) (Schrems II Decision, see our Alert here)—the EU Commission has adopted the...more

Significant improvements for international transfers of personal data - adequacy decision for the new EU-U.S. Data Privacy...

WilmerHale on 7/12/2023

On July 10, 2023, the European Commission adopted its long-awaited adequacy decision for the EU-U.S. Data Privacy Framework (“Adequacy Decision”). This ends a three-year journey to set up a successor to the EU-U.S. Privacy...more

EU-U.S. Transfers: Privacy Shield replacement not adequate says European Parliament

BCLP on 5/19/2023

The road to the adoption of a lasting framework for EU-U.S data transfers has been anything but smooth. Much like its predecessor, Safe Harbor, the EU-U.S Privacy Shield met its end in 2020 when the Court of Justice of the...more

Data Privacy Laws and Blocking Statutes: Five Practical Strategies for Counsel

HaystackID on 1/30/2023

Background Note: Data privacy has become a critical issue in the digital era, with laws and regulations constantly evolving. As a result, it’s important for cybersecurity, information governance, and legal discovery...more

Calmer waters in sight? The European Commission publish their draft adequacy decision for the EU-U.S. Data Privacy Framework

A&O Shearman on 12/21/2022

The 13 December 2022 marked a further stage in restoring greater stability for transatlantic personal data transfers, as the European Commission (the Commission) launched the process towards adoption of an adequacy decision...more

Biden Executive Order Seeks to Solidify European Union-U.S. Data Privacy Framework

White & Case LLP on 10/20/2022

After a two year absence of a legal framework for transferring personal data from the EU to the U.S., President Biden signed an Executive Order on Enhancing Safeguards for United States Signals Intelligence Activities (the...more

President Biden Issues Executive Order on Signals Intelligence to Implement EU-US Data Privacy Framework

Balch & Bingham LLP on 10/10/2022

On October 7, 2022, President Biden signed an Executive Order on Enhancing Safeguards for United Sates Signals Intelligence Activities. The order aims to address concerns expressed by the Court of Justice of the European...more

Executive Order on EU-U.S. Data Sharing Signed

Wiley Rein LLP on 10/10/2022

On October 7, 2022, President Biden signed the Enhancing Safeguards for United States Signals Intelligence Activities Executive Order (Executive Order or EO), which implements the EU-U.S. Data Privacy Framework (EU-U.S. DPF)....more

U.S. and E.U. Reach New Trans-Atlantic Data Flow Agreement To Replace Privacy Shield

Benesch on 4/6/2022

While the announcement is short on details, once in place, U.S.-based. entities will be able to use the new agreement to comply with the GDPR’s cross-border data transfer requirements. On March 25, the U.S. and E.U....more

Privacy & Cybersecurity Update - March 2022

Skadden, Arps, Slate, Meagher & Flom LLP on 4/5/2022

In this month’s Privacy & Cybersecurity Update, we analyze the U.S. and EU’s joint commitment to create a new data transfer framework to replace the invalidated Privacy Shield, as well as Utah’s new state privacy law and...more

New Privacy Shield Agreement Announced

Akin Gump Strauss Hauer & Feld LLP on 3/30/2022

Last week the Biden administration and the European Commission jointly announced a new trans-Atlantic data flow agreement. While no specifics have yet been made public, a recent press release gives the high-level facts of...more

The U.S. and the EU Reach an Agreement in Principle on Data Transfer

Tarter Krinsky & Drogin LLP on 3/29/2022

The U.S. and the European Commission (EC) took an important step towards a new data transfer framework as President Biden and EC President Ursula von der Leyen jointly announced on March 25 that an agreement in principle had...more

BCLP Global Data Privacy FAQs: What EU transfer options remain for international data transfers after Schrems II?

BCLP on 6/16/2021

On July 16, 2020, the Court of Justice of the European Union (CJEU) invalidated in “Schrems II” the EU–U.S. Privacy Shield framework, while upholding the Standard Contractual Clauses (SCCs) as a valid mechanism for...more

Update on European Data Protection Law

McDermott Will & Schulte on 2/19/2021

In mid-January 2021, the European Data Protection Board (EDPB) announced by press release that it has adopted jointly with the European Data Protection Supervisor (EDPS) written Opinions on the European Commission’s drafts...more

Cybersecurity 2021 – The Year in Preview: The GDPR's New Transfer Landmines

Foley Hoag LLP - Security, Privacy and the... on 12/31/2020

Editors’ Note: This is the third in our fifth-annual end-of-year series examining important trends in data privacy and cybersecurity in the coming year. Read our previous posts on Energy and Cannabis. A year ago,...more

European Privacy Regulators Propose Rules for Data Transfers to the U.S.

Groom Law Group, Chartered on 11/23/2020

On November 10, 2020, the European Data Protection Board (“EDPB”) released proposed rules describing the conditions that entities subject to the European Union’s (“EU”) General Data Protection Regulation (“GDPR”) can transfer...more

Management of Cross-Border Data Transfer After the Schrems II Decision

Orrick, Herrington & Sutcliffe LLP on 11/16/2020

italiano: La gestione gel flusso trasfrontaliero dei dati dopo la sentenza Schrems II By: Ivan Rotunno, Giulia Rivarola di Roccella, and Martina Acquaro Following the decision of the European Court of Justice of the European...more

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