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Daniel Felz

About Daniel Felz

Daniel Felz is a senior associate with Alston & Bird’s Privacy, Cyber & Data Strategy Team. Dan leverages his extensive international experience to advise clients on global privacy, cybersecurity, technology, and adversarial matters.

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Georgia Introduces Privacy Bill Stricter than CCPA – the Top 10 Issues

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On January 26, 2022, the Georgia General Assembly introduced a bill titled the Georgia Computer Data Privacy Act (GCDPA).  Despite its title, the GCDPA is not a “computer”-focused bill.  It is instead is an omnibus privacy statute modeled after California’s Consumer Privacy Act (CCPA).  The GCDPA was introduced by the Republican leadership in Georgia’s state […]

Swiss Data Protection Regulator Is Latest to Outline Framework for Transferring Data to the SEC

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Entities registered with the U.S. Securities & Exchange Commission (SEC) must maintain certain books and records and can be subject to the SEC’s examination, inspection, and enforcement authority. Responding to SEC requests can require cross-border transfers of personal data, and this has historically risked non-compliance under foreign data protection law. The SEC has been proactive […]

Alston & Bird Publishes 10 Key Takeaways from the New Standard Contractual Clauses

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As highlighted by this blog on Friday, the European Commission has published long-awaited Standard Contractual Clauses (SCCs).  These represent the first updates to the SCCs in over a decade, with the last updates having been made in 2010. Alston & Bird partner Wim Nauwelaerts has now published an advisory titled “10 Key Takeaways from the […]

European Commission Publishes Long-Awaited New Standard Contractual Clauses

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Today, the European Commission published finalized versions of new Standard Contractual Clauses (SCCs).  The Commission has published two sets of clauses: A set of SCCs to be used in controller-to-processor situations in conjunction with Art. 28 GDPR “data processor” terms applicable to such situations. A more general set of modular SCCs that can be used […]

The GDPR Reaches the US Supreme Court in Cert Petition

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The EU’s General Data Protection Regulation (GDPR) has been raised in a petition for certiorari before the US Supreme Court, apparently for the first time since the GDPR entered into application in 2018.  A party in Vesuvius USA Corp. v. Phillips has filed a petition for certiorari in a GDPR-related discovery dispute.  Of course, since […]