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Daniel Felz

About Daniel Felz

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

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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 […]

California Department of Justice Releases Post-Finalization Modifications to CCPA Regulations

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On October 12, 2020, the California Department of Justice (“Department”) released its first set of proposed post-finalization modifications to the California Consumer Privacy Act Regulations (the “CCPA Regulations”). As many businesses know, the CCPA Regulations were finalized on August 14, 2020.  The Department styled these new modifications as a “Third Set of Proposed Modifications” to […]