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

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

Dechert Cyber Bits - Issue 62

Dechert LLP on 9/27/2024

FTC and DOJ Reach US$2.95 Million Settlement with Verkada for Alleged Violations of the FTC Act and CAN-SPAM Act - On August 30, 2024, the Federal Trade Commission (“FTC”) announced a proposed order with Verkada Inc....more

Dechert Cyber Bits - Issue 60

Dechert LLP on 8/19/2024

New BIPA Ruling: Dismissal of Claims Against Samsung Over its Face App Data - On July 24, 2024, a federal judge in Illinois dismissed the case GT v. Samsung Electronics America, Inc., in which a putative class of Samsung...more

GDPR Day 2024: A Look at Past, Present and Future Developments in the UK

Littler on 5/31/2024

May 25th marked six years since the General Data Protection Regulation has been in effect. Since it was implemented, GDPR has been regarded as the gold standard for data protection legislation across the world....more

Pensions: what's new this week - September 18, 2023

A&O Shearman on 9/18/2023

Welcome to your weekly update from the Allen & Overy Pensions team, covering all the latest legal and regulatory developments in the world of workplace pensions. This week we cover the following topics: International...more

EU-U.S. Data Privacy Framework: adequacy decision adopted, the framework becomes operational

A&O Shearman on 8/14/2023

On 10 July 2023, the European Commission adopted the adequacy decision for the EU-U.S. Data Privacy Framework (DPF). This decision enables the free flow of personal data from the EU and three EEA countries (Iceland,...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

The New EU-U.S. Data Privacy Framework in Half a Dozen FAQs

BakerHostetler on 7/13/2023

On July 10, 1962, NASA launched Telstar 1, the first active communications satellite linking Europe and the United States through live television transmission. Sixty-one years later, on July 10, 2023, the European Commission...more

The Latest on the EU’s Proposed Artificial Intelligence Act

Perkins Coie on 5/2/2023

The fast-developing innovations brought by generative artificial intelligence (AI) are hastening calls from industry and government to consider new regulatory frameworks. The EU was in the process of implementing its AI Act,...more

Towards a unified whistleblower system across Europe

White & Case LLP on 4/10/2023

Whistleblowing in Europe has been governed by country-specific regulations, some of which differed widely in terms of content. A number of Member States did not even have a dedicated generally applicable protection system in...more

European Commission Proposes New EU Cybersecurity Rules for Software and Hardware Products

Wilson Sonsini Goodrich & Rosati on 10/11/2022

On September 15, 2022, the European Commission (EC) published a Proposal for a Cyber Resilience Act (CRA Proposal) that sets out new rules in the European Union (EU) for software and hardware products and their remote data...more

Proposals to Reform the UK Data Protection Regime

McDermott Will & Emery on 6/22/2022

On 10 May 2022 and as part of the Queen’s speech, which sets out the programme of legislation for the forthcoming parliamentary session, the government announced proposals to table a Data Reform Bill (the Bill) to reform the...more

How New Framework Could Ease EU-US Data Transfer Burden

WilmerHale on 5/10/2022

On 25 March 2022, the European Commission and United States announced an agreement in principle on a new Trans-Atlantic Data Privacy Framework. If passed into law, the framework will facilitate the transfer of personal data...more

Legislative Approaches to AI: European Union v. United Kingdom

Morgan Lewis - Tech & Sourcing on 10/26/2021

Following an initial announcement in early 2021, the UK government has recently launched its first National Artificial Intelligence (AI) Strategy. This new strategy indicates that the United Kingdom may be planning on...more

Does the UK Risk Its Data Position with the EU by Acting Reasonably?

Womble Bond Dickinson on 9/8/2021

Hell hath no fury like a bureaucracy scorned. Do you know a person who insists on having his own way all the time and who wants to control your relationships with others? I hope not, but many of us do....more

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Mintz - Privacy & Cybersecurity Viewpoints on 8/30/2021

The United Kingdom has been busy in the past couple of weeks starting to chart its independent course on data protection and privacy matters. We should keep in mind, however, that some of the more dramatic announcements...more

Data Transfers: U.K. Proposes New Tools and Approach

Faegre Drinker Biddle & Reath LLP on 8/30/2021

The United Kingdom Information Commissioner’s Office (ICO) recently launched a consultation regarding the transfer of personal data outside of the U.K. The ICO is seeking comment on its draft international data transfer...more

UK launches consultation on international data transfers - a first glimpse of the “UK SCCs”

BCLP on 8/16/2021

On 11 August, the UK Information Commissioner’s Office launched a consultation paper on “International transfers under UK GDPR”. The documents released alongside the paper include a draft International Data Transfer Agreement...more

Considerations for Updating Standard Contractual Clauses

Morgan Lewis - Tech & Sourcing on 7/15/2021

On June 4, 2021, the European Commission adopted its long-anticipated updated Standard Contractual Clauses (New SCCs) for use by organizations transferring personal data outside of the European Economic Area (EEA) to third...more

Financial institutions general regulatory weekly news, July 2021 #2

Hogan Lovells on 7/13/2021

Future framework for regulation of UK financial services: Treasury Committee report - The House of Commons Treasury Committee has published its Fifth Report of Session 2021-22 on the future framework for regulating financial...more

European Commission adopts positive UK adequacy decisions for data transfers

A&O Shearman on 7/6/2021

On 28 June 2021, just two days before the interim EU-UK data transfer “bridging mechanism” expired under the Trade and Cooperation Agreement, the European Commission (EC) adopted two adequacy decisions for the UK to...more

Free Data Flow to the UK May Continue – EU Adopts Adequacy Decision

Sheppard Mullin Richter & Hampton LLP on 6/29/2021

The European Commission announced today a long-awaited decision that the UK data protection standards are adequate under the meaning of GDPR’s Article 45, providing a mechanism to enable transfer of data from the EU to the UK...more

UK Life Sciences and Healthcare Newsletter - June 2021: A New Era for International Data Transfers: European Commission Adopts New...

Dechert LLP on 6/28/2021

The European Commission has issued new Standard Contractual Clauses designed to facilitate international transfers of personal data in compliance with the GDPR. The new provisions better reflect the variety of global data...more

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

BCLP on 6/21/2021

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

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

Benesch on 6/15/2021

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

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