Privacy Laws, Member State, Personal Data

Council of the EU adopts the European Health Data Space Regulation

A&O Shearman on 1/29/2025

On January 21 2025, the Council of the European Union (Council) announced its decision to adopt the Regulation of the European Parliament and of the Council on the European Health Data Space (EHDS). As we have previously...more

Further Tension Between National Security and Protecting Privacy: Latest EU Judgments

Akin Gump Strauss Hauer & Feld LLP on 10/14/2020

United Kingdom, French and Belgian national security laws (and such laws of other EU Member States) fell under the scrutiny of the Court of Justice of the European Union (CJEU), which on October 6, 2020, ruled on whether such...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

Intel Releases Final Version of Proposed Federal Privacy Legislation

Benesch on 6/21/2019

Santa Clara, California-based Intel Corporation has published what it is calling the “final draft” of its proposed U.S. federal privacy legislation, the original version of which was published in November 2018. As a result,...more

Top EU Court’s Ruling Subjects Companies Doing Business Across Europe To “New Sanctions” in Potentially Unfamiliar Jurisdictions

Pillsbury - Global Sourcing Practice on 10/29/2015

The Court of Justice of the European Union (CJEU) has been very busy in recent weeks re-shaping EU privacy laws. In addition to the much-anticipated decision in “Schrems” (Case C-362/14), which essentially rules the US-EU...more

EU Expands Reach of National Data Protection Regulators

BakerHostetler on 10/22/2015

The central European countries of Slovakia and Hungary are divided by a common 420-mile-long border. But that dividing line, and other European national borders, may now be a little more blurred due to a key ruling by the...more