7/28/2023 9:55:56 AM Three lessons from ICO’s quarterly enforcement report By Cynthia O'Donoghue The Information Commissioner’s Office (ICO) has published a report on reprimands issued in the second quarter of the year, from April to...
7/12/2023 4:52:47 PM Third Time’s a Charm: European Commission adopts EU-U.S. Data Privacy Framework By Cynthia O'Donoghue Aselle Ibraimova Andy Splittgerber Christian Leuthner Friederike Wilde-Detmering Sven Schonhofen +3 more... Show less Background The European Commission (EC) issued the long-awaited adequacy decision for the new EU-U.S. Data Privacy Framework (Framework)...
5/10/2023 12:33:24 PM Cookies and international data transfers: Key takeaways from the EDPB 101 Task Force report By Cynthia O'Donoghue Andy Splittgerber Sven Schonhofen Alicja Lysik +1 more... Show less The EDPB 101 Task Force published a report summarizing its assessment on international data transfers in connection with the use of...
5/3/2023 3:20:58 PM EU-US data transfers: LIBE Committee to stop debate over adequacy decision due to concerns over insufficient privacy safeguards By Aselle Ibraimova Andy Splittgerber Alicja Lysik On 13 April 2023, the EU’s Committee on Civil Liberties, Justice and Home Affairs (LIBE Committee) passed a resolution to stop the debate...
4/21/2023 6:52:00 PM Unanimous Supreme Court limits FTC and other agencies’ investigative power By Gerard Stegmaier Mark Quist Karim Alhassan In the latest of a recent string of judicial rebukes, the Supreme Court’s unanimous decision in Axon Enterprise, Inc. v. FTC offers the...
4/19/2023 4:54:19 PM EU may expand the scope of the adequacy decision for Japan following its first review By Aselle Ibraimova Alicja Lysik On 4 April 2023, the Personal Information Protection Commission of Japan (PPC) and European Commissioner for Justice issued a joint Press...
4/17/2023 8:50:05 PM Takeaways from ICO’s “Privacy in the product design lifecycle” guidance By Cynthia O'Donoghue Alicja Lysik On 13 March 2023, the Information Commissioner’s Office (‘ICO’) published new guidance, ‘Privacy in the product design lifecycle’, to...
4/4/2023 5:32:25 PM Critical Entities Resilience Directive (CER) – broader scope and more stringent obligations By Aselle Ibraimova Alicja Lysik The Critical Entities Resilience Directive (‘CER’) entered into force on 16 January 2023, replacing the 2008 European Critical...
3/24/2023 4:39:34 PM UK Data Protection Bill No.2 – What is changed? By Aselle Ibraimova Cynthia O'Donoghue On 8 March 2023, the UK government presented a new version of the UK Data Protection and Digital Information Bill No.2. As with the...
2/27/2023 5:24:18 PM EU and UK privacy and data predictions for 2023 By Angelika Christoforou 2022 was another busy year in privacy and data protection. We have seen major new developments at both the EU and the UK level, in terms...
2/23/2023 4:31:17 PM NIS2 toughens up EU’s cyber security obligations By Cynthia O'Donoghue Aselle Ibraimova Alexander Pierce The European Union’s Second Network and Information Systems Directive (“NIS2”) entered into force on 16 January 2023, and replaces the...
8/2/2022 10:14:38 AM ICO25: ICO sets out its three year strategic plan By Cynthia O'Donoghue Angelika Christoforou On 14 July 2022, the UK Information Commissioner’s Office (“ICO”) has launched a public consultation on its draft strategic three year...
2/14/2022 3:56:45 PM ICO launches consultation on Chapter 3 of updated guidance on anonymisation, pseudonymisation and PET By Angelika Christoforou Cynthia O'Donoghue On 7 February 2022, the UK Information Commissioner’s Office (ICO) announced that it had launched a consultation on Chapter 3 of its...