If you’ve been following the headlines, you know that a day doesn’t pass without a reference to the “GDPR”. On May 25, 2018, the European Union (EU) General Data Protection Regulation (GDPR) will take effect, marking the most significant change to European data privacy and security in over 20 years. Most multinational companies, and of

The European Commission recently issued an overall positive review in its first annual report on the E.U. – U.S. Privacy Shield (“Privacy Shield”),  after evaluating the Privacy Shield in its joint review with the US last month.

The Privacy Shield took effect in August 2016 replacing the EU – US Safeharbor that was invalidated by

A class action alleging Viacom illegally obtained and disclosed personally identifiable information from children under the age of thirteen through the Nickelodeon website recently reached the end of line (almost) when the class’ petition for writ of certiorari was denied by the Supreme Court this month. The high court chose not to further define the

Earlier today the European Union and U.S. officials announced the final approval of the EU-U.S. Privacy Shield data transfer agreement (“the Privacy Shield”).  Beginning August 1, 2016, organizations based in the U.S. will be able to self-certify their compliance with the Privacy Shield.

The Privacy Shield is meant to replace the EU-U.S. Safe Harbour agreement

Earlier today, the European Commission (the Commission) issued a draft “adequacy decision” as well as the texts that will constitute the EU-U.S. Privacy Shield (the Privacy Shield). This includes the Privacy Shield Principles companies have to abide by, as well as written commitments by the U.S. Government on the enforcement of the arrangement,

US.EUCompliance and privacy officials all over the U.S. just let out a breath they had been holding since last October when the European Court of Justice invalidated the US/EU Safe Harbor Program. BNA is reporting that negotiators just reached an agreement on a new data transfer framework between the U.S. and the European Union. Details

On December 17, 2015, following four years of sometimes acrimonious debate, the EU Parliament and Council of the European Union informally agreed on the final draft of the General Data Protection Regulation (“GDPR”). The GDPR will replace what privacy experts refer to simply as “95/48” –or the 1995 law known as EU Data Protection Directive—