The Irish Data Protection Commission (DPC) has welcomed X’s agreement to suspend its processing of certain personal data for the purpose of training its AI chatbot tool, Grok. This comes after the DPC issued suspension...more
On July 12, 2016, the European Commission formally adopted the Privacy Shield, a new transatlantic framework for the transfer of personal data from the European Union (EU) and certain countries of the European Economic Area...more
Notice Requirements - The Privacy Shield notice requirements are more specific and detailed than what was required by the Safe Harbor regime. Safe Harbor required a privacy policy to provide information on data...more
The EU Data Protection Directive 95/46/EC (the “Directive”) creates the legal framework for national data-protection laws in each EU Member State. The Directive states that personal data may only be transferred to countries...more
The Düsseldorfer Kreis, a committee made up of representatives of German data protection authorities, recently published guidance on the requirements for obtaining valid consent to the collection, processing and use of...more
As we previously reported, EU and US officials have reached an agreement to implement a program known as the EU-US Privacy Shield. The Privacy Shield is a successor to the US-EU Safe Harbor program, which was invalidated...more