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About Paul Greaves

Paul Greaves is a senior associate in the Brussels office and a member of Alston & Bird’sPrivacy, Cyber & Data Strategy Team. Paul’s privacy, information technology, and data protection practice includes a focus on compliance with the General Data Protection Regulation, ePrivacy rules, and cross-border data transfers.

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International Data Transfers: European Commission Gives Green Light to EU-U.S. Data Privacy Framework

July 12, 2023 By Wim Nauwelaerts, Alice Portnoy and Paul Greaves

What Happened? On July 10, 2023, the European Commission (‘EC’) adopted its long-awaited adequacy decision approving the EU-U.S. Data Privacy Framework (‘DPF’). By doing so, the EC is confirming that personal data transferred to the U.S. under the DPF is adequately protected in line with the EU GDPR’s international data transfer rules. Transfers of personal […]

Filed Under: GDPR, Government Access to Data

The EU Supervisory Authorities’ Coordinated Enforcement Action in the EU: This Year It’s All About DPOs

March 17, 2023 By Wim Nauwelaerts, Paul Greaves and Alice Portnoy

On March 15, 2023, the European Data Protection Board (“EDPB”) – the body through which the EU Member States’ Supervisory Authorities cooperate – along with 26 EU Supervisory Authorities officially launched a “coordinated enforcement action”, focusing on the designation of Data Protection Officers (“DPOs”) under the EU GDPR, and the position that DPOs hold in […]

Filed Under: Data Protection, EDPB, Enforcement, GDPR, Privacy

European Commission Takes Significant Step Towards New Solution for Transatlantic Transfers of Personal Data

December 13, 2022 By Paul Greaves and Wim Nauwelaerts

What Happened? On December 13, 2022, the European Commission (the “Commission”) took a significant step towards the adoption of the EU-U.S. Data Privacy Framework (“DPF”). The DPF is a new framework designed to replace the EU-U.S. Privacy Shield (“Privacy Shield”), which was struck down by Court of Justice of the European Union in the Schrems […]

Filed Under: Data Protection, Data Security, International Tagged With: Cross-border, EU Data Protection, EU Privacy, EU Regulation, International Data Transfers

EU Standard Contractual Clauses (SCCs) Deadline is Looming

November 28, 2022 By Wim Nauwelaerts and Paul Greaves

Companies relying on the SCCs as a data transfer tool have less than a month to update their existing contracts (if they haven’t done so already).  WHAT HAPPENED? The EU General Data Protection Regulation (GDPR) allows companies that want to transfer personal data protected by the GDPR to third countries outside the EU/EEA to do […]

Filed Under: Data Protection, International, Privacy Tagged With: EU Data Protection, EU Regulation, European Union (EU), GDPR Implementation, International Data Transfers, Regulatory Enforcement

European Parliament Adopts “NIS2” Cybersecurity Directive

November 13, 2022 By Paul Greaves

On November 10, 2022, the European Parliament adopted a new cybersecurity directive (the “NIS2 Directive”), which is designed to replace and repeal the existing EU Directive on the Security of Network and Information Systems (Directive 2016/1148/EC) (the “NIS Directive”). The objective of the NIS2 Directive is to achieve a higher level of cybersecurity within the EU […]

Filed Under: Cybersecurity, Data Breach, Data Protection, Data Security, Legislation Tagged With: cybersecurity, European Union (EU), NIS Directive, NIS2

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