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EU-US Data Privacy Framework on Personal Data Transfers Survives Legal Challenge

Latham & Watkins LLP on 9/9/2025

EU General Court confirms United States ensured an adequate level of protection for EU personal data transfers to the US. ...more

New EU-U.S. Data Privacy Framework Legalizes Personal Data Transfers from the EU to US

Guidepost Solutions LLC on 8/1/2023

On July 10, 2023, the European Commission announced that it had adopted its adequacy decision for the EU-U.S. Data Privacy Framework (EU-U.S. DPF). This long-awaited decision means that for the first time since the EU-U.S...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

European Union and United States Reach New Agreement for Data Flow Across the Atlantic

Jones Day on 7/20/2023

On July 10, 2023, the EU Commission adopted its adequacy decision for the EU-U.S. Data Privacy Framework, concluding that the United States ensures an adequate level of protection for personal data transferred from the...more

Department of Commerce Launches the EU-U.S. Data Privacy Framework: Considerations for Multinational Employers that Transfer EU...

Littler on 7/20/2023

As of July 17, 2023, U.S.-based multinational employers that can access the personal data of their workforce members in the European Union (EU) via a human resources information system (HRIS), or otherwise transfer the...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

[Webcast Transcript] You’ve Got to Move It: Data Protection and Privacy with Cross-Border Transfers

HaystackID on 6/29/2022

...This session, led by industry-acknowledged experts in areas ranging from data protection and privacy to data transfer and legal discovery, provided a professional forum for the explanation of the best approaches,...more

The UK and global Data Protection landscape – seeing the bigger picture and navigating the maze

A&O Shearman on 6/16/2022

Introduction - The data protection landscape in the UK, and globally, continues to evolve. The pace and number of initiatives has continued into 2022. This requires a step back – to look for key trends and the most relevant...more

Waiting on a new EU-US Privacy Shield

Sheppard Mullin Richter & Hampton LLP on 4/29/2022

It has been almost two years since the Privacy Shield was struck down as a valid data transfer mechanism in Schrems II. Many have been wondering “what’s next”? Will there be a replacement framework? When will that be...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

Schrems II Update

A&O Shearman on 7/6/2021

French CNIL issues guidance for organisations on transfer impact assessments, German DSK releases statement on supplementary measures and SCCs, and Hessian DPA comments on data transfer obligations (23 June 2021)....more

Understanding When to Use Two New Sets of Standard Contractual Clauses Issued by the EU

Sheppard Mullin Richter & Hampton LLP on 6/17/2021

Starting this fall, companies transferring personal data from the European Economic Area (EEA) will likely begin to see a flurry of contract renegotiations. On June 4, 2021, the European Commission adopted long awaited new...more

Updated EU Standard Contractual Clauses Are Finally Here

BakerHostetler on 6/8/2021

On June 4, 2021, the European Union’s (EU) executive branch, the European Commission (EC), released their new Standard Contractual Clauses (SCCs) for compliant cross-border data transfers under the EU’s General Data...more

10 Key Takeaways from the European Commission’s New SCCs

Alston & Bird on 6/8/2021

Our Privacy, Cyber & Data Strategy Team offers 10 observations companies can use to better understand the EU’s overhaul of the standard contractual clauses that allow compliance with the General Data Protection Regulation’s...more

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