On 21 May 2024 the Council of the European Union (EU) announced the final approval of the landmark EU Artificial Intelligence Act (AI Act or Act). As previously highlighted (see our December 2023 alert), the AI Act is a first...more
5/24/2024
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Facial Recognition Technology ,
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The newly passed Proposition 24, the California Privacy Rights Act (CPRA), represents the second time in two years that California has instituted a comprehensive privacy statute that fundamentally changes data privacy...more
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
10/14/2020
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Data Retention ,
Data Security ,
Electronic Communications ,
EU ,
General Data Protection Regulation (GDPR) ,
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National Security ,
Personal Data ,
Personally Identifiable Information ,
Privacy Laws ,
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Two developments in the United Kingdom demonstrate the country’s renewed commitment to a sustainable data strategy with appropriate privacy and security safeguards. First, on September 9, 2020, the U.K. government published a...more
9/30/2020
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Cyber Threats ,
Cybersecurity ,
Data Collection ,
Data Privacy ,
Data Security ,
Data Storage ,
International Data Transfers ,
Personal Data ,
Research and Development ,
UK
On Friday September 4, 2020, the European Data Protection Board (EDPB), a body consisting of representatives of all the Data Protection Authorities (DPAs) in the European Economic Area, announced that it had formed two new...more
9/14/2020
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EU Data Protection Laws ,
EU-US Privacy Shield ,
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International Data Transfers ,
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Personally Identifiable Information
On February 19, 2020, the Information Commissioner’s Office (ICO), the data protection regulator in the United Kingdom, launched a consultation on its draft guidance on the artificial intelligence (AI) auditing...more
2/27/2020
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Audits ,
Best Practices ,
Consultation ,
Data Collection ,
Data Processors ,
Data Protection ,
Draft Guidance ,
Information Commissioner's Office (ICO) ,
Information Security ,
Personal Data ,
Risk Management ,
UK
Data protection authorities (DPAs) in the European Union (EU) continue to scrutinize practices in the adtech sector for compliance with the EU’s General Data Protection Regulation (GDPR) and local data protection and...more
8/6/2019
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Information Commissioner's Office (ICO) ,
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