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EU and UK Data Protection Regulatory Trends so far in 2024: a focus on AI

A&O Shearman on 10/17/2024

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

High Court clarifies scope of data subject’s right to know specific recipients of their personal data

A&O Shearman on 7/1/2024

On 7 June 2024, in the case of Harrison v Cameron & Another, the High Court ruled that, in the context of a data subject access request under Article 15 UK GDPR, data subjects are entitled in principle to know the specific...more

Dechert Cyber Bits - Key Developments in Privacy & Cybersecurity - Issue 46

Dechert LLP on 12/15/2023

EU AI Act: Political Agreement Reached on Terms of Landmark Legislation - Negotiators for the European Council and the European Parliament have reached political agreement on the provisions of the EU Artificial...more

The UK-US Data Bridge: Practical Considerations for UK Organisations

White & Case LLP on 10/13/2023

The UK-US Data Bridge (the "Data Bridge") has now come into effect, potentially simplifying transfers of personal data from the UK to the US. On 12 October 2023, the Data Bridge took effect. The Data Bridge allows UK...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

CJEU Rejects Minimum Threshold for GDPR Claims

Latham & Watkins LLP on 5/17/2023

The court determined that mere infringement of the GDPR is insufficient for a damages claim, but that there is no minimum threshold for non-material damages. In a recent judgment (Case C-300/21), the Court of Justice of...more

Österreichische Post: The CJEU Specifies the Requirements for Compensation for Breaches of the GDPR

Faegre Drinker Biddle & Reath LLP on 5/16/2023

On 4 May 2023, the European Court of Justice (CJEU) delivered its highly anticipated judgement in Österreichische Post (Case C-300/21) on a crucial issue: the extent to which data subjects affected by a breach of the GDPR...more

EU-U.S. and UK-U.S. Data Transfer Deals Advance with White House Executive Order

Proskauer on Privacy on 10/20/2022

A new legal mechanism to allow for transfers of personal data between the EU and the U.S. is now advancing after an October 7th, 2022 Executive Order was issued by U.S. President Biden (the “Executive Order”). The new...more

Patchworking Data Protection Regimes: UK Adopts New Data Transfer Mechanisms Post-Brexit and Schrems II

Vinson & Elkins LLP on 4/7/2022

Two new United Kingdom (“UK”) data transfer mechanisms, the International Data Transfer Agreement (“IDTA”) and the International Data Transfer Addendum (“UK Addendum”) to the European Union’s (“EU”) new standard contractual...more

Europe OPTS for Pragmatism with New SCCS and ICO Opens Consultations on UK SCCS — What Companies Need to Do Next

Goodwin on 8/27/2021

The dust has settled on the new EU standard contractual clauses for cross-border data transfers (“New SCCs”), but confusion still reins on how the New SCCs cover data transfers and what companies need to do to take advantage...more

New Standard Contractual Clauses and Final EDPB Recommendations - Next Steps

Latham & Watkins LLP on 6/28/2021

Companies have three months to prepare to use the latest standard contractual clauses for new data transfers, and 18 months to migrate existing arrangements. On 4 June 2021, the European Commission released its...more

Alert: Brexit Readiness: Possible Key Impacts of the Conclusion of the Transition Period on 31 December 2020

Cooley LLP on 12/4/2020

On 31 January 2020, the UK left the European Union and entered a transition period that is due to end at 11:00 pm GMT on 31 December 2020. At this point, it is still uncertain whether a new EU/UK deal will be reached. To...more

Further Tension Between National Security and Protecting Privacy: Latest EU Judgments

Akin Gump Strauss Hauer & Feld LLP on 10/14/2020

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

UK Privacy Adequacy In Danger? Mass Surveillance Limited By The CJEU

Vinson & Elkins LLP on 10/7/2020

On October 6, 2020, the Court of Justice of the European Union (the “Court”) ruled that principles of EU law prevent Member States from requiring a provider of electronic communications services to indiscriminately retain...more

Privacy & Cybersecurity Update - July 2020

Skadden, Arps, Slate, Meagher & Flom LLP on 8/6/2020

In this month's edition, we examine the Court of Justice of the European Union's decision invalidating the EU-U.S. Privacy Shield framework, as well as the U.S. government's response to the decision. We also examine two...more

The EU-U.S. Privacy Shield Is Down: CJEU Decides Schrems II

Vinson & Elkins LLP on 7/17/2020

On July 16, 2020, the Court of Justice of the European Union (“CJEU”) announced their decision in case C-311/18, better known as Schrems II. Late last year, the Advocate General issued a nonbinding opinion declaring the use...more

EU Court Of Justice Invalidates EU-US Privacy Shield, Now What?

Fox Rothschild LLP on 7/17/2020

The Court of Justice of the European Union (CJEU), in its decision in the Schrems II case, has invalidated the EU-U.S. Privacy Shield method for cross-border transfer of personal data from the European Union to the United...more

CJEU Invalidates EU-U.S. Privacy Shield; Upholds Standard Contractual Clauses

Husch Blackwell LLP on 7/16/2020

In a ground-breaking opinion issued today, the Court of Justice of the European Union invalidated the EU-US Privacy Shield Decision as a method for transferring personal data from the EU to the US. In short, the Decision was...more

UK MRC Clarifies When Health Data Is Anonymised in Research Context

Latham & Watkins LLP on 2/24/2020

Research participants must identify which data sets constitute personal data to ensure compliance with the GDPR. The UK Medical Research Council (MRC) has published a useful guidance note on the identifiability,...more

Brexit Update - February 2020

McDermott Will & Emery on 2/6/2020

The United Kingdom is no longer a member of the European Union and has entered into a transition period until December 31 2020, unless an extension of 1 or 2 years is agreed by July 1 2020 (the Brexit Long Stop Date). ...more

The Privacist - Volume 1

K&L Gates LLP on 10/4/2019

BREXIT: DEAL OR NO-DEAL? DATA IS THE QUESTION - With the Brexit deadline looming ahead on 31 October 2019, the situation seemingly reaches new levels of uncertainty every day. Last week, the U.K. Supreme Court’s eleven...more

ECJ Issues First Cookie Decision After GDPR

BCLP on 10/3/2019

On October 1, the European Court of Justice (the “ECJ”) confirmed recent guidance from the UK and CNIL regulators in finding that the use of pre-checked boxes does not constitute consent for processing of personal information...more

Brexit Update - March 2019

McDermott Will & Emery on 3/25/2019

SPECIAL REPORT - BREXIT: CHALLENGES AND OPPORTUNITIES - In this report, we explain some of the key legal implications associated with the United Kingdom leaving the European Union (EU) without a deal for future...more

Brexit: Preparing for the Unknown — Practical steps

McGuireWoods LLP on 7/22/2016

The UK’s new Prime Minister Theresa May has said: “The country voted to leave the European Union, and as prime minister I will make sure that we leave the European Union.” That seems like a clear statement, but the...more

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