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A&O Shearman

EU and UK Data Protection Regulatory Trends so far in 2024: a focus on consent, adtech and tracking technologies

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This series of blogs rounds up some of the key data protection regulatory trends we have seen during 2024, focused on the EU and UK. 2024 has seen behavioural advertising and cookies continue to dominate the agenda of data...more

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Global Cross Border Privacy Rules and the new initiatives to support data free flow with trust

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ust over a year ago, on 21 April 2022, the seven economies (Canada, Japan, the Republic of Korea, the Philippines, Singapore, Taiwan, and the USA) participating in the Asia-Pacific Economic Cooperation (APEC) Cross-Border...more

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BCLP Global Data Privacy FAQs: What’s the current status of the UK Adequacy Decision?

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The European Commission published a draft Adequacy Decision for the UK on 19 February. That document remains in draft, though it is understood to have successfully cleared the last formal approval stage required....more

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Revised Approach to Standard Contractual Clauses Creates Key Deadlines and Offers Long-Awaited Answers

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The European Commission’s long-awaited updates to the Standard Contractual Clauses (“SCCs”) have arrived. Data protection lawyers globally have eagerly anticipated these changes, which are necessary to address a legal...more

Orrick, Herrington & Sutcliffe LLP

10 Things You Should Know About the New Standard Contractual Clauses

Orrick's Cyber, Privacy & Data Innovation and IP Licensing & Technology Transactions groups cover the top 10 things you need to know about the new Standard Contractual Clauses ("SCCs") published today by the European...more

White & Case LLP

UK Adequacy Decision – one step closer

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On 14 April 2021, the European Data Protection Board ("EDPB") announced that it had adopted two Opinions on the draft UK adequacy decisions issued by the European Commission on 19 February 2021. The EDPB’s take on the draft...more

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Privacy Update: California Can Enforce Net Neutrality Law After Court Victory

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California Can Enforce Net Neutrality Law After Court Victory - California’s net neutrality law bars internet service providers from prioritizing, blocking, slowing down, or speeding up internet content. California’s law...more

Skadden, Arps, Slate, Meagher & Flom LLP

A Temporary Solution for Data Protection and Digital Trade

Brexit has raised many questions regarding the future of data protection and digital trade. Whilst the UK’s incorporation of the General Data Protection Regulation (GDPR) into domestic law in January 2020 eased some...more

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UK Adequacy: Good News From The European Commission But Might There Be A Bumpy Road Ahead?

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News of the European Commission’s draft Decision that the UK ensures an adequate level of protection for personal data transferred from the EU to the UK can only have been greeted by with a sigh of relief by businesses both...more

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European Commission Publishes Draft Adequacy Decision for Transfers of Personal Data from the EU to the UK

In a solid step forward for EU to UK personal data transfers, the European Commission has published its draft adequacy decision that will (if finally adopted) permit personal data to flow freely from the EU to the UK. As we...more

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European Commission takes key step towards free flow of data to the UK

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On February 19, the European Commission (EC) published the draft of its much hoped-for adequacy decision for transfers of personal data to the UK under the EU General Data Protection Regulation (EU GDPR) (Draft Adequacy...more

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European Commission Adopts Draft UK Adequacy Decision

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On February 19, 2021, the European Commission adopted a draft ‘adequacy decision’ in favor of the UK. The adoption of the draft adequacy decision marks the first step in ensuring the continued free flow of personal data from...more

Pillsbury Winthrop Shaw Pittman LLP

Important UK-EU Data Transfer “Adequacy” Decision Reached

The European Commission has announced a draft decision of “adequacy” concluding the UK ensures an essentially equivalent level of data protection to the GDPR. There remains an approval process to go through before the...more

Lowenstein Sandler LLP

Post-Brexit, Schrems II, And The GDPR: Privacy Compliance Priorities In Early 2021 (Part Two)

As we began exploring last week in Part I of our Post-Brexit, Schrems II, and the GDPR: Privacy Compliance Priorities in Early 2021 series, significant developments in late 2020 charted a course in privacy/cyber compliance...more

Fenwick & West LLP

Keep Your Personal Data Flowing – How to Navigate the Changing Tides of the New EU Guidance and UK-EU Brexit Deal

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Concerns are mounting for companies around the world as they consider their ability to transfer data from the EU following the recent decision by the Court of Justice of the European Union in Data Protection Commissioner v....more

Latham & Watkins LLP

The Commission’s Draft Updated Standard Contractual Clauses - A Close Look

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The European Commission has published draft updated standard contractual clauses in light of the Schrems II decision. On 12 November 2020, the European Commission (the Commission) published a draft implementing decision,...more

Pillsbury Winthrop Shaw Pittman LLP

Data Transfers from Europe: New Draft SCCs Published and Regulator Guidance Issued on Schrems II Privacy Shield Decision

The EDPB has issued recommendations concerning how organisations may lawfully transfer personal data from Europe to “third countries” (e.g., the U.S. and currently the UK from 1.1.2021) in light of the recent Schrems II...more

Rothwell, Figg, Ernst & Manbeck, P.C.

Speed Dating in the UK? Negotiating New Data Protection Relationships with the EU

With all that has happened this year, most of us can’t wait until 2020 is in the rear view mirror.  The end of 2020, however, marks the end of the transition period provided, post-Brexit, to allow time for UK businesses and...more

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