Tagged as: European Data Protection Board / EDPB

EU/UK Privacy & Cybersecurity News Roundup – Week of May 22, 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…

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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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French Privacy Regulator Fines Apple 8 Million Euros for Ad Targeting Violations

On December 29, 2022, France’s privacy regulator (CNIL) imposed an €8 million fine on Apple. The CNIL found Apple in breach of France’s ePrivacy rules for not obtaining mobile users’ consent prior to reading and depositing Identifiers for Advertising (IDFAs) on those users’ devices. Apple has announced that it intends…

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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 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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President Biden Signs “Privacy Shield” Executive Order to Address European Concerns Over Surveillance Practices in the United States

UPDATE: On October 7, 2022, President Biden signed an Executive Order on “Enhancing Safeguards for United States Signals Intelligence Activities,” establishing new privacy safeguards and oversight mechanisms for foreign intelligence that will form the basis of a new EU-U.S. Data Privacy Framework (“DPF”). The DPF, which President Biden and European…

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U.S. and EU Reach Political Agreement On a New Trans-Atlantic Data Privacy Framework: The Implications for Businesses

On March 25, 2022, President Biden and the President of the European Commission (“EC”) von der Leyen announced that the US and EU reached an agreement in principle on a new Trans-Atlantic Data Privacy framework for transatlantic data flows (the New Framework). The parties now need to translate the consensus…

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