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Transferring Data from China: Who Must First Pass a Pre-Export Security Assessment?
China’s new data protection framework clearly creates a requirement for local storage and conducting a security assessment before personal information or important data is shared with other jurisdictions, but it…
Privacy World
WP 29 Updates Documents on BCRs
WP 29 has published the following documents adopted on 29 November 2017: WP 256 Working Document setting up a table with the elements and principles to be found in Binding…
Password Protected
A First Step from South Korea Towards an Adequacy Finding with EU Commission
In early 2017, the EU Commission published a communication about “Exchanging and Protecting Personal Data in a Globalized World” in which the EU Commission prioritizes discussions on possible adequacy decision…
Privacy & Information Security Law Blog
UK Information Commissioner Publishes Advice on BCR Applications under the GDPR
On November 20, 2017, the UK Information Commissioner's Office published guidance on applications for Binding Corporate Rules to comply with requirements under the EU General Data Protection Regulation.
Privacy & Information Security Law Blog
CIPL Responds to CNIL and Irish DPC on Transparency and Data Transfers under the GDPR
The Centre for Information Policy Leadership at Hunton & Williams LLP recently submitted responses to the Irish Data Protection Commissioner and the CNIL on their public consultations, seeking views on…
Workplace Privacy, Data Management & Security Report
The EU – US Privacy Shield Passed its First Annual Review
The European Commission recently issued an overall positive review in its first annual report on the E.U. – U.S. Privacy Shield (“Privacy Shield”), after evaluating the Privacy Shield in its…
Cleary Cybersecurity and Privacy Watch
EU-U.S. Privacy Shield Functions Well, with Scope for Improvement, According to its First Annual Review
By Emmanuel Ronco, Natascha Gerlach, Gareth Kristensen, Lucinda Smart
On October 18, 2017, the European Commission published its report on the functioning of the EU-U.S. Privacy Shield framework (the “Privacy Shield”), marking the conclusion of its first joint annual…
Eye On Privacy
EU Concludes Privacy Shield Still Adequate
By Liisa Thomas
In the much anticipated first annual review of the EU-US Privacy Shield program, the European Commission concluded that the program continues to provide adequate protection for personal information transferred from…
Technology Law Dispatch
House of Lords publishes briefing on Data Protection Bill
By Cynthia O’Donoghue, Kirill Albrecht
The House of Lords Library, which provides research and information services to Members of the House of Lords, has published a briefing on the Data Protection Bill (“Bill”) which sets…
Privacy & Information Security Law Blog
EU Commission Releases Report on First Annual Review of the EU-U.S. Privacy Shield Framework
On October 18, 2017, the EU Commission released its report and accompanying working document on the first annual review of the EU-U.S. Privacy Shield framework. The report states that the…