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Is My U.S.-Based Company Subject to the GDPR? Clearing Up European Data Privacy Law Misinformation

Amundsen Davis LLC on 4/23/2025

If you are a compliance professional for a U.S.-based company, you have probably been told at some point that you have to worry about the General Data Protection Regulation (GDPR). Have you encountered one of these...more

AI, agency, and efficiency - The Visionaries

IR Global on 11/20/2024

Q1 Is there scope to use AI in commercial contracts? Will it save time, or ultimately cost more time in review and pose greater risk?...more

UK US Data Bridge Practical Tips for Implementation and Compliance

Latham & Watkins LLP on 9/6/2024

Latham & Watkins and Privacy Laws & Business recently co-hosted a webinar looking back on the first eight months since the UK-US Data Bridge entered into force. Speakers from the UK Information Commissioner’s Office (ICO) and...more

Privacy Speaks: A clearer view?

BCLP on 1/19/2024

Clearview AI Inc's successful challenge to the ICO’s £7.5 million fine focused on the limits of the UK GDPR’s jurisdictional reach, succeeding on the grounds that Clearview’s processing activities were outside the scope of...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

Connecticut becomes the fifth state to enact a comprehensive data privacy law

Eversheds Sutherland (US) LLP on 5/18/2022

Connecticut’s new consumer privacy law imposes enhanced privacy disclosures and assessment requirements on businesses, and provides consumer rights similar to those in Europe’s GDPR, the California Privacy Rights Act (CPRA),...more

Colorado’s new privacy law: How it stacks up against other US privacy laws

Eversheds Sutherland (US) LLP on 7/15/2021

There are many similarities between the Colorado Privacy Act (ColoPA), the California Consumer Privacy Act (CCPA), the California Privacy Rights Act (CPRA), the Virginia Consumer Data privacy Act (VCDPA), and Europe’s GDPR,...more

English High Court Examines Extent of GDPR's Extraterritorial Jurisdiction

K&L Gates LLP on 3/5/2021

When the General Data Protection Regulation (GDPR) came into force throughout the European Union nearly three years ago, one of its most eye-catching features was its extraterritorial jurisdiction provisions. These extend the...more

Should I Be Worried About the GDPR? – EDPB’S Guidelines on the GDPR’S Territorial Scope

Hogan Lovells on 12/31/2019

Does the GDPR really apply to my company? From a data protection standpoint, this is the first thing that comes to mind within non-EU companies. In many cases, the GDPR seems like an issue of the Old Continent, so some assume...more

Google Wins At The Top EU Court: Privacy Can Be a Question of Geography

Dorsey & Whitney LLP on 9/26/2019

Earlier this week, the Court of Justice of the European Union, perhaps for the first time, drew a territorial limitation to the requirements imposed under the General Data Protection Regulation (‘GDPR’). The court held that...more

Employers’ Most Frequently Asked Questions About the California Consumer Privacy Act – Series 2- Jurisdiction, Question 1

BCLP on 5/2/2019

In this Series 2 of our FAQs regarding the California Consumer Privacy Act (“CCPA”), we are examining the scope of the law’s jurisdiction. These FAQs should help employers determine if they are required to comply with the...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

Chapter 13: Cross-Border Data Transfers – Unlocking the EU General Data Protection Regulation

White & Case LLP on 4/20/2019

Why does this topic matter to organisations? In today's world, it is increasingly important to be able to move data freely to wherever those data are needed. However, the transfer of personal data to recipients outside the...more

Avoiding the California Privacy and Security Litigation Tsunami: CCPA FAQ: Does the CCPA permit national class actions, or only...

BCLP on 2/14/2019

Companies that do business in California know that it is a magnet for class action litigation. The California Consumer Privacy Act ("CCPA"), a new privacy law that applies to data collected about California residents, will...more

EDPB Publishes Regulatory Guidance on Territorial Scope of GDPR

Latham & Watkins LLP on 1/3/2019

The Guidance provides helpful clarifications for service providers and their customers on both sides of the Atlantic. Long-awaited guidance on the territorial scope of the General Data Protection Regulation (GDPR) has been...more

GDPR’s Most Frequently Asked Questions: Can a controller unilaterally amend a service provider agreement to incorporate...

BCLP on 6/12/2018

The European Union’s General Data Protection Regulation (“GDPR”) is arguably the most comprehensive – and complex – data privacy regulation in the world. While the GDPR went into force on May 25, 2018, there continues to be a...more

A Month in UK Employment Law - August 2016

Proskauer Rose LLP on 8/1/2016

News & Legislation Update - The UK votes to leave the EU - We could not write a roundup of news stories from the UK without referencing the UK's vote to leave the EU. The so-called "Brexit" has created...more

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