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Data Privacy Guide - Spain

International Lawyers Network on 5/15/2024

Introduction - We have compiled the main differences between the REGULATION (EU) 2016/679 OF THE EUROPEAN PARLIAMENT AND OF THE COUNCIL of 27 April 2016 on the protection of natural persons with regard to the processing...more

Data Privacy Guide - Romania

International Lawyers Network on 5/13/2024

Governing Data Protection Legislation - 2.1. Overview of principal legislation - The General Regulation Data Protection (Regulation (EU) 2016/679) (“GDPR”), as implemented by Law 190/2018 is the principal data...more

China Issues Rules to Clarify and Relax Cross-Border Data Transfer Controls

Pillsbury Winthrop Shaw Pittman LLP on 4/9/2024

A data controller that is not a critical information infrastructure operator that cumulatively exports personal information (excluding any sensitive personal information) of less than 100,000 individuals since January 1 of...more

What Is a DPIA (Data Protection Impact Assessment)?

Osano on 4/4/2024

Even though it may not seem like it, the purpose of laws like the EU GDPR (General Data Protection Regulation) isn’t just for the EU to gain additional revenue through fines and penalties. They exist to protect individuals’...more

China Officially Promulgates New Cross-Border Data Transfer Requirements

Benesch on 4/1/2024

The newly promulgated measures increase the threshold of data triggering security assessments and contract requirements while leaving room for Chinese authorities to heavily restrict cross-border data transfers. In...more

New EU-U.S. Data Privacy Framework Legalizes Personal Data Transfers from the EU to US

Guidepost Solutions LLC on 8/1/2023

On July 10, 2023, the European Commission announced that it had adopted its adequacy decision for the EU-U.S. Data Privacy Framework (EU-U.S. DPF). This long-awaited decision means that for the first time since the EU-U.S...more

"An Ounce of Prevention"...How to Reduce the Risk of Litigation and Enforcement Proceedings

Seward & Kissel LLP on 7/27/2023

To paraphrase what Ben Franklin may have been alluding to nearly 300 years ago in his famous quote, often the best approach when it comes to reducing the risk of litigation and government enforcement proceedings is to take...more

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

A&O Shearman on 7/19/2023

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

Privacy ‘Deep in the Heart of Texas’: An Overview of the Texas Data Privacy and Security Act

BakerHostetler on 6/21/2023

Texas, long lauded as one of the most “business-friendly” states, has passed a comprehensive privacy law that will bring new regulations to consumer personal data. The new Texas Data Privacy and Security Act (“TDPSA”), H.B....more

Information Governance 101: Everything You Need to Know To Get Started in 2023

Reveal on 6/8/2023

Information governance (IG) plays an increasingly significant role of the way corporations do business. But what do organizations do with all their data? Where do they store it—and is it secure, well organized, and...more

Cross-Border Data Transfer Mechanisms and Requirements in China

Pillsbury Winthrop Shaw Pittman LLP on 3/23/2023

In recent years, alongside the rapid development of the digital economy and the concomitant increase in data generation, collection, processing and monitoring in the People’s Republic of China (PRC or China), the Chinese...more

When is the right to privacy paramount?

Conyers on 3/2/2023

Data Privacy Week was an opportune time to consider the important issue of how we as a society determine when privacy takes precedence in conflicts between data access and data privacy. A recent such example was the November...more

CCRC is First to Be Qualified to Conduct Personal Information Protection Certification for Export of Personal Information

WilmerHale on 2/24/2023

Article 38 of China’s Personal Information Protection Law (“PIPL”) enacted in 2021, which is more demanding than GDPR in Europe, provides three channels to conduct the outbound transfer or export of personal information...more

NAIC proposes new California-style privacy model law for insurance

Eversheds Sutherland (US) LLP on 2/10/2023

On Wednesday February 1, 2023, the NAIC Privacy Protections Working Group (the Working Group) released a draft of a new model law for comment, the Insurance Consumer Privacy Protection Model Law (#674) (the Proposal), which...more

Data Privacy in 2023: Expectations, Responsibilities & Cyber Security Tactics to Safeguard Your Information

J.S. Held on 2/9/2023

INTRODUCTION - As more of our lives and work become digitized, an inherent overlap continues to grow between data privacy and cyber security programs. Think of two similarly sized circles: in the past, data privacy and cyber...more

Spotlight on Greater China: recent developments governing health related data and HGR

Hogan Lovells on 9/23/2022

As part of a new Asia-Pacific (APAC) Life Sciences and Health Care webinar program designed both for companies with commercial interests in APAC and for companies based in the region, Hogan Lovells is hosting a special...more

China Unveils Draft Standard Contract and Provides Clarifications on Cross-Border Data Transfer Mechanisms

Latham & Watkins LLP on 8/9/2022

China’s CAC publishes guidance on cross-border data transfers, including draft standard contractual clauses and regulatory guidance on certification and security assessment. Key Points: ..Security Assessment:...more

More Privacy, Please - March 2022

Troutman Pepper on 3/18/2022

Editor’s Note: It may be the shortest month of the year, but February 2022 saw a flurry of privacy — especially biometric — legislation move closer to enactment. Kentucky, California, Maryland, and New York state introduced...more

Privacy Roundup Part Two: Significant International Updates

Epiq on 1/12/2022

Last week’s blog detailed the wave of state legislation that occurred in the U.S. during 2021. It is no surprise that there were also many data privacy developments abroad. It is crucial that organizations affected by...more

Privacy & Cybersecurity Update - September 2021

Skadden, Arps, Slate, Meagher & Flom LLP on 10/4/2021

In this month’s edition of our Privacy & Cybersecurity Update, we examine the California Privacy Protection Agency's public comment period for the California Privacy Rights Act, the U.K. government's public consultation...more

China Passes the Personal Information Protection Law

Benesch on 9/22/2021

The law will take effect on November 1, 2021 giving companies under two months to ensure their privacy policies and systems comply. On August 20, the Standing Committee of the 13th National People’s Congress of China...more

The Past, Present and Future of US Privacy Law

WilmerHale on 7/8/2021

Despite its antecedents in one of the most widely cited law review articles of all time from more than 130 years ago, modern United States privacy law is roughly twenty years old. Even though still in its relative infancy,...more

China Takes Major Step Towards Finalizing National Data Regulation Regime

Jones Day on 5/27/2021

China recently released new drafts of its Data Security Law and its Personal Information Protection Law for public comment; when finalized the two laws will impose significant obligations on how companies collect, process,...more

Update on the State of Privacy Law in China

Sheppard Mullin Richter & Hampton LLP on 5/14/2021

China is continuing to move forward with its first comprehensive privacy law. China recently issued a second version of the draft Personal Information Protection Law (Draft PIPL) which will be open for public comments until...more

Virginia’s New Consumer Data Protection Act (CDPA)

McGuireWoods LLP on 3/5/2021

On March 2, 2021, Governor Northam signed into law Virginia’s own Consumer Data Protection Act (“Virginia CDPA” or the “Act”), a bill that brings together concepts from the EU’s General Data Protection Regulation (GDPR) as...more

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