As we’ve reported before, last October the European Court of Justice (the ECJ) ruled “Safe Harbor”, one of the mechanisms for legitimately transferring personal data from the EU to the US, as invalid. That matter originated from Ireland following a complaint made by Mr. Max Schrems to the Irish data protection regulator about data transfers Read more »
GDPR now published
The EU General Data Protection Regulation (“GDPR”) has now been published in the EU Official Journal. It will fully apply from 25 May 2018. By way of very quick reminder the key features of GDPR are: Streamlined data processing principles; Privacy by design and default; Recalibrated consent requirement; Mandatory data protection impact assessment for high Read more »
GDPR update – new era for EU data protection
The European General Data Protection Regulation (now being commonly referred to as the GDPR) appears to have finally reached the end of the EU legislative pipeline with the vote by the European Parliament today, following its adoption by the (EU) Council at the end of last week. Four years in the making and subject to Read more »
WP29 refuse to endorse Privacy Shield scheme
As anticipated the Article 29 Working Party (often known as WP29), a group of the EU’s data protection regulators met in Brussels today to discuss the European Commission’s Privacy Shield scheme, the proposed replacement for Safe Harbor. As we had anticipated in our earlier alerts WP29 decided that in their view Privacy Shield does not Read more »
Changes at the top for the UK Data Protection Regulator
The UK Government this week announced that they intend to propose Elizabeth Denham as the new Information Commissioner. The Information Commissioner leads the Information Commissioner’s Office (the ICO) the data protection and freedom of information regulator for the UK. Denham is currently the Information & Privacy Commissioner in British Columbia, Canada. She will step down Read more »
Episode 168: Why are U.S. Presidential Candidates avoiding cyber security issues?
In this podcast Eric and Jonathan ask why the U.S. Presidential Candidates aren’t talking about cyber security when they otherwise are talking tough about fighting the enemies of the United States. Do they understand the issues relating to cyber warfare well enough to express opinions and to outline strategies and plans? TechLaw10 is a 10-minute Read more »
BREXIT and GDPR
There is a lot of nonsense talked at the moment about UK businesses not having to worry about changes to European data protection law on the basis that the UK might exit the European Union (the so called BREXIT). In my view any company that is waiting until after the BREXIT vote is misguided. Whatever Read more »
Global Data Protection News: Privacy Shield details announced
Almost a month after announcing that a deal was done between the EU and the US in order to protect European personal data, the European Commission have finally announced the details of the replacement for Safe Harbor: Privacy Shield. Cordery lawyers, Jonathan Armstrong and Gayle McFarlane, share their initial thoughts. Read our full alert here. Read more »
European Commission announces some detail on Privacy Shield scheme to replace Safe Harbor
Almost a month after announcing that a deal was done between the EU and the US in order to protect European personal data, the European Commission have finally announced the details of the replacement for Safe Harbor: Privacy Shield. We’re still working our way through all of the documentation, but thought we’d share our initial Read more »
Episode 167: Safe Harbor is dead; long live Privacy Shield?
In this podcast Eric and Jonathan look at the latest on the proposed Privacy Shield deal to replace Safe Harbor. They discuss the likely outcome and the reaction to the announcement of a possible deal on both sides of the Atlantic. TechLaw10 is a 10-minute audio podcast update from U.S. lawyer Eric Sinrod (Duane Morris) Read more »
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