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Consumer Protection Connection
Obama Signs Judicial Redress Act—Will It Move EU–U.S. Privacy Shield Forward?
By Sheila Millar, Tracy Marshall
[caption id="attachment_1091" align="alignright" width="620"] Pres. Obama gestures at signing ceremony for Judicial Redress Act[/caption] President Barack Obama signed the Judicial Redress Act on Wednesday, February 24, 2016, which will eventually…
Privacy Compliance & Data Security
Facebook Runs Afoul of French Data Protection Authority
The French data protection authority (CNIL) is placing Facebook’s EU-U.S. data transfer practices under new scrutiny over its use of the defunct Safe Harbor framework. The agency issued a two-part…
Inside Privacy
EU DPA Enforcement Guidance Post-Schrems
By Mark Young, Kristof Van Quathem
Industry eagerly awaits further guidance from data protection authorities (“DPAs”) relating to the EU-U.S. Privacy Shield as well as on the validity (or otherwise) of other mechanisms for transfers to…
Life Sciences Legal Update
What the “EU-U.S. Privacy Shield,” the New Safe Harbor, Means for Your Business
By Cynthia O’Donoghue, Daniel Kadar, Kate Brimsted, Dr. Thomas Fischl, Philip Thomas, Katalina Bateman, Doretta Frangaki, Caroline Gouraud, Chantelle Taylor, Thomas C. Evans, Dr. Alexander Hardinghaus
European Union and United States authorities have announced the “EU-U.S. Privacy Shield,” a new transatlantic data transfer framework to replace Safe Harbor, which was invalidated by the European Court of…
Password Protected
EU-U.S. Privacy Shield: Better or Worse?
According to a tweet, Giovanni Buttarelli − the European Data Protection Supervisor (EDPS) − declared during the 2016 edition of the conference Computers, Privacy and Data held in Brussels: "Don't…
Technology Law Dispatch
The CNIL sets expectations as to the ‘EU-U.S. Privacy Shield’ and starts implementing enforcement measures in case of Safe Harbor remediation default
By Cynthia O’Donoghue, Daniel Kadar, Kate Brimsted, Dr. Thomas Fischl, Philip Thomas, Katalina Bateman, Doretta Frangaki, Caroline Gouraud, Chantelle Taylor, Thomas C. Evans, Dr. Alexander Hardinghaus
The CNIL issued a press release February 4, setting expectations concerning the “EU-U.S. Privacy Shield” work-in-progress. In the same time, it has switched to enforcement mode concerning Safe Harbor remediation…
Data Protection Report
EU-US Privacy Shield – UK ICO updates its interim position on transfers to the US
By Marcus Evans
Today the UK data protection authority (the ICO) published a blog post and consolidated interim guidance on how to handle EU/US data transfers while the EU-US Privacy Shield is being scrutinised by…
Workplace Privacy, Data Management & Security Report
The Status of the EU-U.S. Privacy Shield
As we previously reported, the EU and U.S. reached agreement last week on the EU-U.S. Privacy Shield to replace the invalidated EU-U.S. Safe Harbor Program for transatlantic data transfers. While…
Eye On Privacy
EU-US Privacy Shield: Still Awaiting Certainty
By Yaniss Aiche
The European Perspective Privacy activists across Europe raised their data protection banner following the announcement by EU Commissioner for Justice, Consumers and Gender Equality Věra Jourová on Tuesday 2 February…
Ad Law Access
Privacy Shield: The New Transatlantic Agreement and How it May Impact Your Company
By Dana B. Rosenfeld, Alysa Z. Hutnik
Last Tuesday, February 2, 2016, the European Commission announced that it approved the EU-U.S. Privacy Shield (“Privacy Shield”), an agreement with the U.S. Department of Commerce establishing a new framework for…