Topic
Data Transfer
1,085 published works
Technology Law Dispatch
EU-US Privacy Shield challenged in the European Court of Justice
By Cynthia O’Donoghue, Thomas C. Evans
Just four months after its adoption by the European Commission, the EU-U.S. Privacy Shield is facing its first formal legal challenge. The challenge comes from the Irish advocacy group Digital…
HL Chronicle of Data Protection
Details of Legal Challenge to Privacy Shield Revealed
By Eduardo Ustaran, Bret Cohen, Katherine Gasztonyi
Ever since the first draft of the EU-US Privacy Shield framework was published in early 2016, groups opposed to the idea have indicated their intent to challenge the legality of…
Carpe Datum Law
Article 29 Working Party Issues Statement on the EU-U.S. Umbrella Agreement
By Natalya Northrip, CIPP/US, CIPP/E
The Article 29 Working Party has issued a statement about the so-called EU-U.S. Umbrella Agreement, which, while not providing legal basis for any data transfers, sets forth a high-level data…
Workforce Compliance Insights
Is it Legal to Transfer Personal Data from the European Union to the United States?
Human Resources professionals have one more item to add to their compliance checklist – ensuring the lawful transfer of employee, consumer or customer personal data from the European Union (“EU”)…
Ad Law Access
For Better or Worse: Privacy Shield Challenges and (Actions for) Annulments
By Kelley Drye
Over the course of the past two months, three privacy groups in France and one in Ireland filed separate actions for annulment with the European Court of Justice seeking the…
Datenschutz
500 Unternehmen betroffen: Datenschutzbehörden überprüfen internationale Datentransfers
In den bevorstehenden Wochen werden zehn der deutschen Datenschutzbehörden in einer gemeinsam koordinierten Prüfaktion rund 500 verschiedene Unternehmen auffordern, Auskunft zu den von ihnen veranlassten internationalen Datentransfers zu erteilen. Den…
Data Protection Report
German DPAs: 500 Companies to be Audited on Data Exports
By Christoph Ritzer (DE), Sven Jacobs (DE)
Ten German data protection authorities (DPAs), led by the Berlin DPA, announced today that they will send formal questionnaires to about 500 companies in Germany to assess the scope of…
Global IP & Technology Law Blog
Legal Challenge to the EU-US Privacy Shield Framework
As widely expected, the EU-US Privacy Shield is being challenged before the European courts. What is Privacy Shield? In October 2015, the Court of Justice of the European Union (CJEU)…
La Revue
Clauses contractuelles types et Privacy Shield en danger
La guerre fait rage : après l’invalidation du Safe Harbor, les Clauses contractuelles types et Privacy Shield sont attaquées.
Password Protected
Expected Soon: Modifications of the Standard Contractual Clauses
The European Commission very recently presented two draft implementing decisions amending the existing adequacy decision on standard contractual clauses. These drafts were presented to the Article 31 Committee, which is…