It has been some time already since the EU Digital Services Act (Regulation 2022/2065, DSA) was published, and since then, the discussions about Very Large Online Platforms (VLOPs) and Very Large Online Search Engines...more
1/3/2024
/ Compliance ,
Data Protection ,
Digital Marketplace ,
Digital Service Providers ,
Digital Services ,
E-Commerce ,
EU ,
European Commission ,
Online Platforms ,
Regulatory Standards ,
Search Engines ,
Transparency
On 14 June 2023, the European Parliament (Parliament) plenary voted on its position on the Artificial Intelligence Act (AI Act), which was adopted by a large majority, with 499 votes in favor, 28 against, and 93 abstentions....more
With the recent decision from the Court of Justice of the European Union invalidating the Privacy Shield framework and subjecting the Standard Contractual Clauses (SCCs) to higher standard of enforcement, global companies...more
The long awaited Schrems II decision was published by the Court of Justice of the European Union (CJEU) on 16 July 2020, and while it has already been summarized as the death blow to the Privacy Shield framework and the...more
On January 23, 2019, the EU Data Protection Board (“EDPB” - the gathering of all European Union (EU) data protection authorities) adopted opinion no. 3/2019 (the “Opinion”) on the interplay between the Clinical Trials...more
Background - On 17 July 2018, the European Union (the “EU”) and Japan reached an agreement to recognize each other’s data protections systems as “equivalent”, and each commits to complete internal procedures by fall 2018 (the...more
8/28/2018
/ Corporate Counsel ,
Cybersecurity ,
Data Collection ,
Data Processors ,
Data Protection ,
EU ,
EU Data Protection Laws ,
European Commission ,
European Economic Area (EEA) ,
General Data Protection Regulation (GDPR) ,
International Data Transfers ,
Japan ,
Personal Data ,
Popular
On 30 November 2016 the European Commission (“Commission” or “EC”) presented its Communication on connected cars for Europe, under the more formal denomination “A European Strategy on Cooperative Intelligent Transport Systems...more
On October 6, 2015, the European Court of Justice (“ECJ”) ruled in the “Schrems” case that the U.S.-EU Safe Harbor framework on the transfer of personal data from Europe to the United States, was invalid.
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10/8/2015
/ Binding Corporate Rules ,
Cybersecurity ,
Data Protection Authority ,
Edward Snowden ,
EU Data Protection Laws ,
European Commission ,
European Court of Justice (ECJ) ,
Facebook ,
Federal Trade Commission (FTC) ,
International Data Transfers ,
Ireland ,
National Security ,
National Security Agency (NSA) ,
Obama Administration ,
Personal Data ,
Privacy Laws ,
Right to Privacy ,
Safe Harbors ,
Schrems I & Schrems II ,
TTIP ,
U.S. Commerce Department ,
US-EU Safe Harbor Framework