On 25 March 2025, the Irish Data Protection Commission (‘DPC’) confirmed that it received no objections to its draft decision on how TikTok Technology Limited (‘TikTok’) transfers personal data to China. The DPC, in its role as the lead supervisory authority for the Irish-headquartered TikTok, opened two ex officio inquiries…
On March 7, 2025, the California Privacy Protection Agency (Agency) reached a settlement with American Honda Motor Co. (Honda) resolving allegations that the company violated the California Consumer Privacy Act (CCPA). The order required Honda to pay a $632,500 fine and implement changes to its data privacy practices. The Agency…
The Trump Administration has not slowed down in its rollout of wide-sweeping technology policy changes with potentially significant impacts to be felt throughout the country and around the globe. Personnel changes and public announcements of new priorities are the throughline of new actions crossing various sectors and agencies at the…
On February 11, 2025, the European Data Protection Board (“EDPB”) issued a statement outlining its expectations for aligning the proliferating use of age assurance checks with the GDPR (the “Statement”). Aiming to promote a harmonized approach across the EU, the Statement provides guidance and high-level principles for online service providers…
Introduction As the United States transitions to a new administration, federal policymaking is beginning to shift away from civil rights and other Biden-era AI governance priorities and towards AI policies focused on “out-innovating the rest of the world,” securing US technological advantage, and national security, defense, and cybersecurity. In the…
On 14 January 2025, the UK government launched a public consultation on proposed legislative measures to combat the ever-increasing threat of ransomware. With these proposals, the UK government is seeking to step up its efforts to understand, deter and prosecute ransomware attacks by gathering more information from victims and undermining…
Introduction In a judgment of January 8, 2025 (in Bindl v European Commission, Case T-354/22) (the “Judgment”) the EU General Court (the “Court”), the second highest court of the European Union (“EU”), ordered the European Commission (the “Commission”) to pay 400 EUR in damages to a German citizen (the “claimant”) for transferring…
Aristotle, the Greek philosopher and polymath of the fourth century BC is known to have coined the phrase horror vacui – nature abhors a vacuum, meaning that in nature, a vacuum or a void isn’t a steady state. Fast forward 2,400 years, and the same holds true for tech regulation….
With the deadline for Member States to transpose the European Union’s updated Network and Information Systems Directive (Directive (EU) 2022/2555) (“NIS 2” or “Directive”) into national law having passed on 18 October 2024, organisations operating in or servicing the EU market face significant new cybersecurity obligations. The revised Directive, which…
On October 9, 2024, the European Data Protection Board (“EDPB”) issued an Opinion 22/2024, offering guidance on the use of processors and sub-processors by controllers. Here are the key takeaways: If Your Business Acts as a Controller You Make the Final Call: Your processor might recommend using a particular sub-processor,…