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Data Transfer
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The Data Advisor
And Then There Were None: Or How Schrems 2.0 May Invalidate the Standard Contractual Clauses and the Privacy Shield
By Jan Dhont, Cédric Burton, Christopher Kuner, Nikolaos Theodorakis
On July 9, 2019, the European Court of Justice (ECJ)—the highest court of the European Union—will hear oral arguments in the Schrems 2.0 case relating to the validity of two…
Data Protection Report
German M&A Deals: Share Deals Remain the Only Secure Way to Transfer All Customer Data
The German data protection authorities, acting as the German data protection conference (Datenschutzkonferenz), recently published guidance on how to transfer customer data in an asset deal. The guidance runs through…
Data Protection Report
New Chinese Measures for Personal Data Cross-Border Transfer Security Assessments
By Barbara Li (CN), Bohua Yao (CN)
On June 13, 2019 Measures for Personal Data Cross-Border Transfer Security Assessments were issued by the Cyberspace Administration of China.
Privacy, Cybersecurity & Technology Law Perspectives
FTC Steps up Enforcement Against False Claims of Participation in the EU-U.S. Privacy Shield and Other International Privacy Frameworks
Nearly three years ago, the EU-U.S. and Swiss-U.S. Privacy Shield frameworks replaced the U.S.-EU and U.S.-Swiss Safe Harbor programs as a self-certification mechanism to transfer personal data from the European…
Inside Global Tech
Privacy Shield Ombudsperson Confirmed by the Senate
By Mark Young, Sam Jungyun Choi
On June 20, 2019, Keith Krach was confirmed by the U.S. Senate to become the Trump administration’s first permanent Privacy Shield Ombudsperson at the State Department. The role of the…
Privacy & Information Security Law Blog
Key Conclusions from Hunton Brussels Seminar on the Update of EU Standard Contractual Clauses for International Data Transfers
On June 12, 2019, Hunton Andrews Kurth and its Centre for Information Policy Leadership (“CIPL”) hosted a roundtable discussion in the firm’s Brussels office on the update of the EU…
China Law Insight
Autonomous vehicles: Legal issues on Survey, Data Collection and Transfer
By King & Wood
By： Mark Schaub, Xue Han and Atticus Zhao Autonomous vehicles on roads seems inevitable. However, a number of major breakthroughs will need to take place before fully autonomous vehicles will…
Cleary Cybersecurity and Privacy Watch
Data Transfer Mechanisms to be Reviewed by CJEU After Irish Supreme Court Dismisses Facebook Appeal
By Natalie Farmer, Sienna Smallman
On 31 May 2019, the Supreme Court of Ireland dismissed Facebook’s appeal of the Irish High Court decision to refer questions regarding, among other things, the adequacy of the EU-U.S.…
Privacy & Information Security Law Blog
Hunton Brussels Seminar on an Update of the EU Standard Contractual Clauses for Data Transfers
On June 12, 2019, Hunton Andrews Kurth and its Centre for Information Policy Leadership (“CIPL”) will host a roundtable discussion in the firm’s Brussels office on the update of the…
Privacy Compliance & Data Security
Facebook Loses Bid To Halt European Court of Justice Consideration of Data Transfer Case
By Odia Kagan
Standard Contractual Clauses: we'll see you in (European) Court (of Justice). "The European Court of Justice (ECJ) will hear a landmark privacy case regarding the transfer of EU citizens' data…