Wednesday 2 December 2020 Noon – 12:30 p.m. GMT As reported on this Blog, on 12 November 2020, the European Commission published a draft decision and draft standard contractual clauses for the transfer of personal data to third countries. Once approved, organisations that rely on SCCs for transfers will have a one-year grace period to … Continue Reading
On 16 July 2020, the Court of Justice of the EU (“CJEU” or the “Court”) delivered another landmark decision on international data transfers – the so-called Schrems II judgment. In its decision, the CJEU invalidated the EU Commission’s adequacy decision on the EU-US Privacy Shield Framework (“Privacy Shield”), on which thousands of US companies have … Continue Reading
The latest data privacy Alert from the Squire Patton Boggs’ Data Protection & Cybersecurity team covers news from the week of 11 December 2017.… Continue Reading
The latest data privacy Alert from the Squire Patton Boggs’ Data Protection & Cybersecurity team covers news from the week of 27 November 2017.… Continue Reading
The latest data privacy Alert from the Squire Patton Boggs’ Data Protection & Cybersecurity team covers news from the week of 6 November 2017. … Continue Reading
On 18 October 2017, the European Commission (“Commission”) published its first annual report on the functioning of the US-EU Privacy Shield (“the Report”), the successor to the Safe Harbor framework after its invalidation in Schrems. The Report will be widely welcomed by businesses on both sides of the Atlantic as the Commission continues to back … Continue Reading