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Workday Ruling: How Europe’s Top Courts Raised the Bar for Employee Data Protection

Fisher Phillips on 7/24/2025

Cloud-based HR systems have become standard for multinational businesses, driving efficiency but also increasing compliance and privacy risks. Indeed, a recent Workday case, which originated in Germany, has clarified the...more

EU’s Highest Court Issues Major AI Decision With Wide-Reaching Impact

Alston & Bird on 12/20/2023

On 7 December 2023, the Court of Justice of the European Union (CJEU) issued an important decision on how the GDPR governs AI-assisted decisions. The case arose in the financial services context, with the court holding that...more

CJEU: Website operators are "jointly responsible" for embedding social media or 3rd party code

Spirit Legal on 10/14/2020

Website and app operators are jointly liable with Facebook for violations of European data protection law - In its judgment of 29 July 2019 (ref.C-40/17), the European Court of Justice has ruled on two essential points...more

German State’s Data Processing Authority Offers Strict Guidance On Post-Schrems II Data Transfers

Fox Rothschild LLP on 8/26/2020

The data protection authority of the German state of Baden-Wurttemberg issued a guidance for European Union data exporters in the wake of the Schrems II decision by the Court of Justice of the European Union (CJEU), which...more

Like Incorporating Facebook into your Website? EU Decision Raises New Issues

Brooks Pierce on 8/25/2019

A ruling by the highest court in the European Union regarding the common practice of putting a Facebook “Like” button on a website could have repercussions for American companies doing business overseas. In late July, the...more

Europe: Can new “hate speech” legislation set the mould for the Copyright Directive?

Hogan Lovells on 2/7/2018

The phenomenon of so-called “Hate Speech” has been in the public eye for a while now, but particularly in German news. Hate speech denotes verbal attacks and accusations based on personal attributes such as race, religion,...more

First Privacy Shield Guidelines for Companies published by German DPA

Orrick, Herrington & Sutcliffe LLP on 9/26/2016

On September 12, 2016, the Data Protection Authority of the German Federal State of North Rhine-Westphalia (“DPA NRW”) became one of the first EU data protection authorities to issue guidance on the implementation of the...more

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