In this episode, Thomas Nietsch, a partner in our Berlin office, sits down with Jelena Kljujic (Privacy Officer at Cisco, EMEA) and Gabriela Mercuri (Managing Director at Scope Europe) to discuss strategies for ensuring...more
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
In a Nutshell - On 10 July 2023—nearly three years to the day after the Schrems II decision of the Court of Justice for the European Union (CJEU) (Schrems II Decision, see our Alert here)—the EU Commission has adopted the...more
In this episode, Claude-Etienne Armingaud, Eleonora Curreri, and Camille Scarparo celebrate the fifth year anniversary of GDPR along with lawyers from our European offices; Thomas Nietsch and Andreas Müller (Berlin), Nóirín...more
In mid-December the European Union (EU) enacted new legislation aiming at harmonizing, and tightening, information technology (IT) security rules in the financial sector: Regulation (EU) 2022/2554 on digital operational...more
The European Parliament and Council dropped an early Christmas present on all stakeholders in the digital environment and critical infrastructure that may feel to some like a bit of coal in the stocking, as it will require...more
On 27 October 2022, the Digital Services Act was published in the EU Official Journal as Regulation (EU) 2022/2065, with the aim to fully harmonize the rules on the safety of online services and the dissemination of illegal...more
On 21 March 2022, the United Kingdom finalized the adoption of its own version of the European Union’s Standard Contractual Clauses (SCC), a contractual mechanism aiming at securing personal data protected under a data...more
BACKGROUND - On 30 March 2021, the European Commission, in a joint statement with the Personal Information Protection Commission, the data protection authority of the Republic of Korea (Korea), declared that Korea ensured a...more
Depending on whether you are an optimist or a pessimist, it will have taken the European Commission either three years and two weeks (since the entry into force of the General Data Protection Regulation (GDPR) or eleven...more
The Bavarian Data Protection Authority recently prohibited a European company from using U.S. newsletter provider Mailchimp in a first-of-its-kind decision. Since the Schrems II decision of the Court of Justice of the...more
As announced by a press release dated 1 October 2020, the Hamburg Commissioner for Data Protection and Freedom of Information (HmbBfDI) has issued a fine of €35,258,707.95 (approx. US$41.2 million) against H&M Hennes &...more
In a highly anticipated Schrems II decision, the Court of Justice of the European Union (CJEU) invalidated the Privacy Shield, the legal framework allowing transatlantic exchanges of personal data for commercial purposes...more
Approaching its second anniversary this month, the European General Data Protection Regulation (GDPR) has never been as relevant as in these unprecedented COVID-19 times. While several countries are considering the...more
The German Act on Tax Incentives for Research and Development became effective 1 January 2020. Under this act, companies and entrepreneurs subject to income or corporation tax in Germany, may apply for subsidies of up to 25%...more
November will see several opportunities to discuss privacy matters in Europe and meet with The Privacist contributors within the K&L Gates’ platform, in connection with the International Association of Privacy Professionals...more
11/11/2019
/ California Consumer Privacy Act (CCPA) ,
Cybersecurity ,
Data Collection ,
Data Privacy ,
Data Processors ,
Data Protection ,
Data Security ,
EU ,
EU-US Privacy Shield ,
General Data Protection Regulation (GDPR) ,
Personal Data