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EU/UK Privacy & Cybersecurity News Roundup – Week of May 8, 2023

Data privacy case law and legislation is constantly updated in the United Kingdom and European Union to address key issues. In order to track the latest developments, we have set out a brief overview of case law updates, legislation, guidance and news. Case Law Updates and Fines On 27 April…

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New EDPB Guidelines on Designation of a Lead Supervisory Authority

On April 17, 2023, the European Data Protection Board (“EDPB”) adopted a final version of the Guidelines for identifying a controller or processor’s lead supervisory authority (“New Guidelines”). This document is an update to the Article 29 Working Party Guidelines (“Old Guidelines”) which were adopted in April 2017 and subsequently…

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EU/UK Privacy & Cybersecurity News Roundup - Week of April 17, 2023

Data privacy case law and legislation is constantly updated in the United Kingdom and European Union to address key issues. In order to track the latest developments, we have set out a brief overview of case law updates, legislation, guidance and news. Case Law Updates On 13 April 2023, the…

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EU/UK Privacy & Cybersecurity News Roundup - Week of March 27, 2023

Data privacy case law and legislation is constantly updated in the United Kingdom and European Union to address key issues. In order to track the latest developments, we have set out a brief overview of case law updates, legislation, guidance and news. Case Law Updates On 16 March 2023, the…

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The Sequel - Data Protection and Digital Information (No. 2) Bill - Further Divergence?

On March 8, 2023, the Data Protection and Digital Information (No. 2) Bill (the Bill) was presented to the UK Parliament by Michelle Donelan (the secretary of State for Science, Innovation and Technology).  The Bill is designed to reform the UK GDPR, the UK Data Protection Act 2018 and the…

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EU/UK Privacy & Cybersecurity News Roundup - Week of February 27, 2023

Data privacy case law and legislation is constantly updated in the United Kingdom and European Union to address key issues. In order to track the latest developments, we have set out a brief overview of case law updates, legislation, guidance and news. Case Law Updates In October 2020, the ICO…

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EU/UK Privacy & Cybersecurity News Roundup – Week of February 20, 2023

Data privacy case law and legislation is constantly updated in the United Kingdom and European Union to address key issues. In order to track the latest developments, we have set out a brief overview of case law updates, legislation, guidance and news. Case Law Updates Politico reports that the European…

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EU/UK Privacy & Cybersecurity News Roundup - Week of February 13, 2023

Data privacy case law and legislation is constantly updated in the United Kingdom and European Union to address key issues. In order to track the latest developments, we have set out a brief overview of case law updates, legislation, guidance and news. In brief, there have been a two recent…

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European Top Court Confirms Companies Need to Name “Recipients” of Personal Data When Responding to Access Requests, Not Just Categories

On January 12, 2023, the Court of Justice of the European Union (“CJEU”) ruled in case C-154/21 | Österreichische Post AG that controllers must provide the specific identity of any “recipient” of personal data in response to a GDPR access request. While the GDPR itself states that controllers may inform…

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EU Commission Publishes Draft Adequacy Decision on Privacy Shield 2.0

On December 13, 2022, the European Commission published a draft adequacy decision on the EU-US Data Privacy Framework (the “Framework”), the successor to the EU-US Privacy Shield Framework that was famously struck down by Europe’s top court two years ago. While the purpose of the draft adequacy decision, once adopted,…

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