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The Data Shift: UK Sets a New Course With 2025 Data (Use and Access) Act

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The Data (Use and Access) Bill passed both Houses of UK Parliament and received Royal Assent on 19 June 2025, now becoming the Data (Use and Access) Act 2025 (“DUA Act”). This is the final iteration of the Data Protection and...more

Latham & Watkins LLP

EDPB Issues Guidelines on Processing Personal Data for Legitimate Interests Purposes

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The draft guidelines provide further clarification to the EDPB’s interpretation of legitimate interests, and suggest a potential divergence with the UK ICO....more

Sheppard Mullin Richter & Hampton LLP

CNIL Fines Canal+ Over Marketing and Data Security Concerns

The French Data Protection Authority announced a €600,000 fine against Groupe Canal+ over concerns with the media company’s direct marketing activities. According to the CNIL, the company sent users email marketing without...more

Morgan Lewis - Tech & Sourcing

Germany Updates Privacy Guidance through Unfair Competition Act

The German Conference of DPAs (the DSK) has released new (legally non-binding) detailed Guidelines dated February 18, 2022 with respect to direct marketing in Germany. ...more

Womble Bond Dickinson

Voice Analysis Complicates Personal Privacy

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Most biometric readings require your presence in the same space as the measuring tools.  Facial recognition, retinal capture, fingerprints or hand geometry, even biomarked scents are measured in close physical proximity. The...more

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If a company receives a right to be forgotten request, does it have to delete a data subject’s information from its...

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No. Although the GDPR indicates that people have a “right to be forgotten,” that right is not absolute.  Rather, it exists only where one of the following six limited situations applies...more

Akin Gump Strauss Hauer & Feld LLP

Continuing GDPR Pressure for Adtech

Data protection authorities (DPAs) in the European Union (EU) continue to scrutinize practices in the adtech sector for compliance with the EU’s General Data Protection Regulation (GDPR) and local data protection and...more

Sheppard Mullin Richter & Hampton LLP

Talk About Ironic: Brexit Group Fined Under EU-Related Privacy Regulations

In an ironic twist, the British Information Commissioner’s Office (ICO) recently fined a Brexit advocacy group for violating regulations issued under an EU directive. The fines, totaling £120,000, were levied against...more

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“We’re Updating Our Privacy Policies” - Consent Under the GDPR

With the General Data Protection Regulation (GDPR), the European Union’s new privacy law having come into effect on 25 May 2018, thousands of companies have been flooding inboxes in recent weeks with emails asking for consent...more

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GDPR’s Most Frequently Asked Questions: Can a company send an email to their database seeking consent to send direct marketing?

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The European Union's General Data Protection Regulation ("GDPR") is arguably the most comprehensive - and complex - data privacy regulation in the world. As companies prepare for the GDPR to go into force on May 25, 2018,...more

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EU Privacy Law May Require Individual Third Party Consent for Sale of Customer Email Lists

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Parties to transactions involving personal data in Europe are well-advised to investigate whether individual consent or the offer of opt-outs are required to avoid the risk of fines and other sanctions imposed by the DPA or...more

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