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The European Union is an economic and political partnership comprised of 27 nations within the Eurozone. The EU was established in 1948 to promote stability and cooperation among member states in the aftermath of WWII. The EU maintains a common currency as well as several intranational institutions, including the European Parliament and the European Commission. less -

EU's Official Journal Publishes EU AI Act

King & Spalding on 7/15/2024

The European Union Artificial Intelligence Act (2024/1689) was published in the Official Journal of the European Union on July 7, 2024 and will come into effect on August 1, 2024, the 20th day following its publication in the...more

Prohibited AI Practices - A Deep Dive into Article 5 of the European Union’s AI Act

WilmerHale on 4/9/2024

This blog post focuses on Artificial Intelligence (AI) practices prohibited under the EU AI Act. Article 5 of the AI Act essentially prohibits AI practices that materially distort peoples’ behavior or that raise serious...more

Privacy Speaks: A clearer view?

BCLP on 1/19/2024

Clearview AI Inc's successful challenge to the ICO’s £7.5 million fine focused on the limits of the UK GDPR’s jurisdictional reach, succeeding on the grounds that Clearview’s processing activities were outside the scope of...more

EU Paves the Way for U.S. in the Regulation of A.I.

Foley & Lardner LLP on 6/9/2023

As concerns about Artificial Intelligence (AI) continue to swell worldwide, the European Union (EU) is providing a regulatory roadmap for the international community. On May 11, 2023, the European Parliament’s Committee on...more

Report on Patient Privacy Volume 23, Number 2. Privacy Briefs: February 2023

Health Care Compliance Association (HCCA) on 2/16/2023

Report on Patient Privacy Volume 23, no 2 (February 2023) DCH Health Systems, based in Tuscaloosa, Ala., said it fired an employee in December after a routine privacy audit revealed evidence that the worker had accessed some...more

In the First Use of Its Section 9714 Powers, the U.S. Treasury Designated Bitzlato as a Russian-Linked Primary Money Laundering...

Skadden, Arps, Slate, Meagher & Flom LLP on 2/7/2023

On January 17, 2023, U.S. law enforcement authorities in Miami arrested Anatoly Legkodymov, a Russian national and the founder and majority owner of Hong Kong-based virtual currency exchange Bitzlato Ltd., on charges of money...more

Breaking Data Development: New Privacy Protections for US-EU Transfers Coming

Epiq on 10/19/2022

Yet another international data transfer update recently materialized. On October 7, President Biden signed an executive order directing the steps to implement a new data privacy framework. This would apply to the flow of...more

EDPB Adopts Guidelines on Calculation of GDPR Fines and on Facial Recognition Technology in Law Enforcement

WilmerHale on 5/31/2022

On May 16, 2022, the European Data Protection Board (EDPB), the independent body of data protection supervisors that promotes consistent data protection rules and application thereof throughout the European Union (EU),...more

The Core Tradeoff: Privacy or Security?

Womble Bond Dickinson on 2/4/2022

US policy makers struggle with the tension between protecting personal privacy and enabling law enforcement surveillance. We know that both are important, but at a certain point, prioritizing one priority shortchanges the...more

Face-off on Use of Biometric Technology in the UK

Orrick, Herrington & Sutcliffe LLP on 8/14/2020

In one of the world’s first test cases regarding the legality of the use of automated facial recognition and biometric technology, on 11 August 2020 the English Court of Appeal handed down judgment in R (Bridges) v CC South...more

Financial Daily Dose 6.12.2020 | Top Story: American Airlines Pledges Loyalty Program as Collateral for COVID Stimulus Package

Robins Kaplan LLP on 6/15/2020

American Airlines Group Inc. stated that it plans to pledge its loyalty program “as collateral for a $4.75 billion government loan as it seeks to shore up capital to manage through the coronavirus pandemic.” The company...more

Facial Recognition: A Clear View to Dystopia

Sunstein LLP on 5/13/2020

In the wake of an alarming exposé published by The New York Times in January, Clearview AI, Inc., a New York startup, faces a slew of lawsuits. Since the article’s publication, the Vermont Attorney General filed a complaint...more

US Signs First Bilateral Data Sharing Agreement Under the CLOUD Act

WilmerHale on 10/7/2019

The Department of Justice announced yesterday that the United States and the United Kingdom have entered into the first of the international executive agreements authorized under the Clarifying Overseas Use of Data (CLOUD)...more

Actual Impact of 2018 U.S. CLOUD Act Still Hazy

Dechert LLP on 7/22/2019

Over a year following enactment of the U.S. “Clarifying Lawful Overseas Use of Data” or CLOUD Act, significant questions remain unanswered about the law and its potential impact on global investigations involving cloud stored...more

Privacy - Wherefore Art Thou? - The Third Circuit Denies 4th Amendment Right

Foley & Lardner LLP on 12/20/2018

The Third Circuit Denies 4th Amendment Right - Let’s face it – over the last 20 years or so, we have come to embrace, celebrate, and depend completely on electronic communications. What is more, we keep reaching out to...more

How UK may be forced out of Europol

WilmerHale on 1/5/2018

Last week the UK government announced plans to launch a new national economic crime centre (NECC), which promises to tackle ‘the most serious cases of economic crime’. This is a grand promise. Originally published in The...more

EU court strikes down security legislation over privacy concerns

Dorsey & Whitney LLP on 1/6/2017

A recent decision of the Court of Justice of the European Union (“ECJ”) imposes restrictions on the use by member states’ law enforcement and national security agencies of telecommunication traffic and location records as...more

Weekly Web Wrap-Up

Sheppard Mullin Richter & Hampton LLP on 4/18/2016

Friend a Bot on Facebook? Messenger Launches Business Chatbots - At Facebook’s annual developers conference F8 this week, Facebook confirmed that Messenger will allow brands and companies to build bots that interact...more

President Obama Signs New Privacy Law – Judicial Redress Act

Moore & Van Allen PLLC on 3/4/2016

On February 24, 2016, President Obama signed into law the Judicial Redress Act giving citizens of certain “covered countries” access to U.S. courts to protect their privacy and take legal action against U.S. government...more

Judicial Redress Act passes the House with the Senate Amendments

Mintz - Privacy & Cybersecurity Viewpoints on 2/12/2016

The amended Judicial Redress Act has passed the House and is on its way to the president to be signed into law. The Act, which we covered in an earlier blog post, gives citizens of foreign countries the same rights as US...more

Judicial Redress Act Would Extend Privacy Act Remedies to Citizens of Designated Foreign Nations

Morgan Lewis on 2/8/2016

The pending legislation would authorize the US Department of Justice to designate foreign countries to allow the citizens of such countries to bring civil actions against certain US agencies to access, amend, or redress...more

Tying it all together: Safe Harbor and Security-Related Data Flows

Mintz - Privacy & Cybersecurity Viewpoints on 1/29/2016

One of the fascinating aspects of the privacy-related negotiations between the EU and the US over the past couple of years has been the EU’s efforts to decouple trade (e.g, TTIP) and security-related negotiations from the...more

Judicial Redress Act Passes House; May Aid New U.S.-E.U. Safe Harbor

King & Spalding on 10/29/2015

On October 20, the U.S. House of Representatives passed the Judicial Redress Act (the “Act”) to allow European Union residents to challenge certain privacy violations by the U.S. government in U.S. courts. If passed by the...more

European Union and United States Agree in Principle on New Safe Harbor Framework

Goodwin on 10/28/2015

On Monday, October 26, European Union Justice Commissioner Vera Jourová delivered a speech before the European Parliament in which she noted that the European Union and the United States had agreed “in principle” on a new...more

Safe Harbor Update: House Votes to Pass Judicial Redress Act

McDermott Will & Emery on 10/23/2015

The Judicial Redress Act of 2015 (H.R. 1428) (Judicial Redress Act) is on its way to the U.S. Senate. On October 20th, the U.S. House of Representatives voted in favor of passage. The Judicial Redress Act extends...more

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