Nota Bene Episode 135: Europe Q3 Check In: Brexit, Data Protection, and Block Exemption Regulations with Oliver Heinisch
NGE On Demand: Personal Data Protection Travels: The New Standard Contractual Clause with John Koenigsknecht and David Wheeler
In-house Roundhouse: Antitrust and the Tech Industry
Pennsylvania COVID-19 Update Featuring Former Pa. Gov. Tom Corbett
In politically uncertain times, is your organisation’s data transfer compliance unquestionable? The EU-U.S. Data Privacy Framework (DPF) serves as a useful mechanism for transatlantic data transfers, and it can assist...more
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
The new framework provides an additional route for personal data transfers from the EEA to the US. On 10 July 2023, the European Commission (EC) took the final step to enable businesses to start relying on the new EU-US...more
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
The European Commission published a very significant adequacy decision last week, which is expected to facilitate transfers of personal information from Europe to the United States. The decision came as part of the...more
On July 10, 2023, the European Commission (“EC”) adopted its adequacy decision for the EU-U.S. Data Privacy Framework (“EU-U.S. DPF”). Nearly three years after the Court of Justice of the European Union (“CJEU”)...more
Colorado Department of Law Issues Draft CPA Revisions - On December 22, the Colorado Department of Law issued updates to the draft Colorado Privacy Act (CPA) rules. These revisions build on written comments and feedback from...more
US and EU Life Sciences Law firms Fieldfisher & Gardner Law recently held a CLE event in Silicon Valley covering Healthcare Compliance, Data Privacy and Regulatory hot topics for MedTech and Pharma companies. Discussion...more
In this month’s Privacy & Cybersecurity Update, we examine the Illinois Supreme Court’s decision in a case involving workers compensation and the state’s Biometric Information Privacy Act, U.K. data transfer regimes before...more
In Blackbaud Inc. Customer Data Security Breach Litigation, No. 3:20-mn-02972 (D.S.C. Aug. 12, 2021), a federal judge found that defendant, Blackbaud Inc. was subject to the CCPA despite its motion to dismiss asserting that...more
The legislation updates the Children’s Online Privacy Protection Act (COPPA) by prohibiting internet companies from collecting personal information from anyone 13- to 15-years old without the user’s consent Senators...more
This past July, a decision by the European Court of Justice (ECJ) struck down the European Union-United States Privacy Shield framework (EU-U.S. Privacy Shield), one mechanism through which companies could transfer personal...more
In this month's edition, we examine the Court of Justice of the European Union's decision invalidating the EU-U.S. Privacy Shield framework, as well as the U.S. government's response to the decision. We also examine two...more
On July 16, 2020, the Court of Justice of the European Union (CJEU) issued its anxiously-awaited judgment in the Schrems II case. The CJEU’s decision upheld the Standard Contractual Clauses (SCCs) but, somewhat surprisingly,...more
On July 16, 2020, the Court of Justice of the European Union (CJEU) invalidated Decision 2016/1250 on the adequacy of the protection provided by the EU-US Privacy Shield, ruling, among other things, that U.S. domestic law...more
Does your organization transfer personal data from the European Union to the US? If so, keep an eye out for a key decision on July 16 from the EU’s top court, the Court of Justice of the European Union. The Schrems II case...more
Nearly three years ago, the EU-U.S. and Swiss-U.S. Privacy Shield frameworks replaced the U.S.-EU and U.S.-Swiss Safe Harbor programs as a self-certification mechanism to transfer personal data from the European Union and...more
In this month's edition of our Privacy & Cybersecurity Update, we examine the European Commission's annual review of the Privacy Shield, a potential threat to the European Union's "standard contractual clauses," a push by...more
Following European Commission adoption of the Privacy Shield on July 12, 2016, and with Privacy Shield self-certification poised to open for business organizations on August 1, 2016 as a replacement for the invalidated...more
Following the formal approval of the EU-U.S. Privacy Shield by the European Commission on 8 July 2016, the arrangement will come into force in the U.S. commencing 1 August 2016 and will provide a convenient framework to allow...more
On July 12, 2016, the European Commission adopted the EU-US Privacy Shield, a framework designed to replace the invalidated Safe Harbor program. In theory, the Privacy Shield offers its adherents a relatively simple,...more
On July 12, 2016, the European Commission formally adopted the EU-U.S. Privacy Shield to replace the previously invalidated Safe Harbor Framework as an adequate method of transferring personal data from the European Economic...more
On July 8, 2016, the Article 31 Committee, comprised of representatives of the European Union (EU) member states, voted to approve a revised Privacy Shield framework that is intended to replace the Safe Harbor framework...more
European privacy law is a bold new world for U.S. businesses doing business in Europe. An October Court of Justice ruling struck down the Safe Harbor arrangement which had governed E.U.-U.S. data transfer transactions for...more
With the Article 29 Working Party’s position on the adequacy of the EU-U.S. Privacy Shield framework agreement (Privacy Shield) decision expected this week, U.S. businesses should be evaluating privacy options and preparing...more