Tagged as: European Commission

EU/UK Privacy & Cybersecurity News Roundup – Week of September 11, 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 31 August,…

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EU/UK Privacy & Cybersecurity News Roundup – Week of August 7, 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 28 July,…

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EU/UK Privacy & Cybersecurity News Roundup – Week of July 10, 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 4 July…

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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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UK Government Issues Response to its Data Reform Consultation

On June 17, 2022, the UK Government’s Department for Digital, Culture, Media and Sport (“DCMS”) issued a final response (“Response”) to the consultation, ‘Data: a new direction’ (“Consultation”), which launched on September 10, 2021, to receive input from stakeholders on the DCMS proposals to reform the UK’s data protection regime….

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Use of Google Analytics by EU Websites Violates GDPR

Introduction On 13 January 2022, the Austrian Data Protection Authority (“DSB“) ruled that the use of Google Analytics (“GA”) and the resulting export of personal data to the United States (“US”) violates the GDPR’s data export requirements. On 10 February 2022 the French data protection authority (“CNIL”) also confirmed that…

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