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May 25, 2023 Five years later: GDPR and the U.S. state privacy law boom By David Cohen It’s hard to believe that half a decade has gone by since the General Data Protection Regulation (“GDPR”) first came into effect on May...
May 25, 2023 Happy GDPR Day!? By Andy Splittgerber GDPR has been in force for five years now. Our German Federal Data Protection Commissioner celebrates GDPR as success. Similar the EU....
Feb 24, 2023 A sigh of relief for data brokers: tribunal overturns (most of) ICO's Experian enforcement notice By Tom Gates Elle Todd Background In an appeal brought by the credit reference agency Experian regarding an Enforcement Notice issued by the Information...
Nov 07, 2022 Guidance galore… top tips from the ICO on complying with direct marketing requirements By Tom Gates In the past couple of weeks the ICO has issued detailed information on complying with direct marketing requirements, whether via live...
Oct 17, 2022 The EU-U.S. Data Protection Framework: A Summary of the U.S. Executive Order issued on Oct. 9 - today and tomorrow By Andy Splittgerber This freshly released Executive Order will form the basis for a new EU-U.S. Data Privacy Framework, aka Safe Harbor Framework v3 or...
Oct 04, 2022 Google Fonts and EU Data Transfers - Lively discussion and some guidance By Andy Splittgerber If your organization received a demand letter from an attorney in Austria, Germany or other EU country regarding use of Google Fonts or...
Sep 26, 2022 UK Data Protection and Journalism Code: round 2! By Elle Todd Tom Gates The UK's data protection regulator the Information Commissioner (ICO), has published a revised draft Journalism Code, which is now open...
Aug 08, 2022 Litigants Beware: Cross-Border Data Transfers From China Present New Perils By David Cohen Parties involved in cross-border discovery are becoming accustomed to the hurdles and risks involved with transferring documents or data...
May 25, 2022 Is the U.S. Ready to Get Serious About Personal Privacy? By David Cohen Anyone who has to address international cross-border discovery issues cannot help but be struck by the different cultural values that...
Mar 30, 2022 Doctor rating portal may list doctors without consent based on legitimate interests By Friederike Wilde-Detmering The Bundesgerichtshof ("BGH"), Germany's highest court in the system of ordinary jurisdiction, ruled on 15 February 2022 that doctors who...
Mar 09, 2022 Latest Privacy and Marketing Updates from Across the Pond By Douglas Wood My colleagues, Andy Splittgerber, Gerry Stegmaier, and Elle Todd are presenting an important webinar on the invalidation of IAB Europe's...
Mar 07, 2022 Fingerprints and Cookies By Douglas Wood Elle Todd, my colleague in Europe, talks about how consumers are being tracked on the Web now that cookies are on their demise. Most...
Feb 09, 2022 A Clarion Call to Brands By Douglas Wood Recently, IAB Europe was fined by the Belgium Data Protection Authority in a decision that the IAB standards did not comply with the...
Jan 27, 2022 Your ESGuide in 5: Finding the P for Privacy in ESG By Francesca Paull Elle Todd It may not be immediately obvious how privacy is relevant to ESG, or Environmental, Social and Governance. There is no ‘P’ or even a ‘D’...
Nov 25, 2021 What is a 'transfer' under Chapter V GDPR? The EDPB (finally) weighs in... By Tom Gates Last week, the European Data Protection Board (the EDPB to you and me) released draft guidelines on the Interplay between the application...
Oct 19, 2021 'Read All About It': new draft ICO journalism code out By Elle Todd The UK data protection regulator (ICO) says it will take you approximately 5 hours and 33 minutes to read its new draft data protection...