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Maki DePalo

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About Maki DePalo

Maki DePalo is a partner with Alston & Bird’s Privacy, Cyber & Data Strategy Team. She devotes her practice to clients' initiatives in technology and corporate transactions encompassing intellectual property licensing, strategic outsourcing, Internet-based marketing and advertising, data privacy and security, governance and compliance.

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U.S. Department of Commerce Announces the Establishment of a Global CBPR Forum

April 25, 2022 By Maki DePalo and Yin Zhao

On April 21, 2022, Canada, Japan, the Republic of Korea, the Philippines, Singapore, Chinese Taipei, and the United States of America issued a  Global Cross-Border Privacy Rules Declaration announcing the establishment of the Global Cross-Border Privacy Rules Forum (“Global CBPR Forum”).  U.S. Secretary of Commerce Gina M. Raimondo, in her statement, described the establishment of […]

Filed Under: CBPR, Data Protection, International, Privacy Tagged With: CBPR, International Data Transfers, Privacy

Japan’s Personal Information Protection Committee releases guidance on contact tracing mobile apps to combat COVID-19

May 4, 2020 By Maki DePalo

On May 1, the Personal Information Protection Committee in Japan (PPC) released guidance on the use of contact tracing mobile apps (Apps) as one of the mechanisms to combat the spread of COVID-19 and highlighted five essential consideration points.  Specifically, the PPC recommends that all “personal information handling business operators” carefully consider, and disclose their […]

Filed Under: Data Protection, Data Security, International, Mobile Privacy, Online Privacy, Privacy Tagged With: COVID-19, Japan

EU and Japan Publish a Joint Release on Their Mutual Adequacy Decisions

January 23, 2019 By Maki DePalo

On January 23, 2019, the Personal Information Protection Commission of Japan (the “PPC”) and the European Commission (the “Commission”) jointly announced the adoption of the decisions recognizing each other’s personal data protection systems as equivalent. The Commission launched the process leading to the adoption of the adequacy decision in September 2018 and successfully completed the […]

Filed Under: Data Protection, GDPR, International, Privacy Tagged With: Cross-border, Data Protection, EU Data Protection, GDPR, International, Japan, South Korea

Are You Ready for Canada’s New Privacy Breach Rules?

October 31, 2018 By Maki DePalo

Mandatory privacy breach notification, reporting and record-keeping obligations under Canada’s federal data protection law called the Personal Information Protection and Electronic Documents Act (PIPEDA) will come into force as of November 1, 2018. Earlier this year, the Canadian government published new privacy-related obligations under PIPEDA.  PIPEDA applies to private-sector organizations and sets the ground rules […]

Filed Under: Cybersecurity, Data Protection, International Tagged With: Personal Information Protection and Electronic Documents Act (PIPEDA)

Japan and EU agree on Terms of Reciprocal Adequacy for Data Transfers

July 18, 2018 By Maki DePalo

On July 17, the European Commission (the “Commission”) announced that the European Union and Japan successfully concluded talks on reciprocal adequacy and agreed to recognize each other’s data protection systems as equivalent.  In its press release, the Commission explains that this adequacy agreement will create “the world’s largest area of safe transfers of data based […]

Filed Under: Data Protection, Data Security, GDPR, International

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