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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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EU Standard Contractual Clauses Need Replacing by December 27, 2022

Introduction On June 4, 2021, the European Commission (the “EC”) abolished the old Standard Contractual Clauses (the “Old SCCs”) and published a new more flexible set of clauses (the “New SCCs”) for companies that wish to export personal data from the EU to elsewhere to rely on (for more information,…

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New EU Rules for Data Access and Sharing: What You Need to Know

On February 23, 2022, the European Commission published its proposal for a Regulation on Harmonized Rules on Fair Access to and Use of Data (“Data Act”), which focuses on data generated by Internet of Things (“IoT”) devices. The aim of the Data Act are to create a single market for…

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