Earlier this month, the European Data Protection Board (EDPB) published a report on the resources that the EU Member States make available to their Data Protection Authorities (DPA) and on the enforcement actions initiated by those DPAs. Resources made available by the EU Member States to the DPAs The EDPB report releases statistics on both […]
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EDPB publishes Guidelines on the Concepts of Controller and Processor in the GDPR
On July 7th, the European Data Protection Board (“EDPB”) adopted its finalized guidelines on the concepts of controller and processor in the General Data Protection Regulation (“GDPR”). While the EDPB’s predecessor – the Article 29 Working Party – had issued guidance on the concepts of controller/processor (Opinion 1/2010, WP169) back in 2010, many practical concerns […]
Alston & Bird Publishes FAQs – Standard Contractual Clauses for Controllers and Processors in the EU/EEA
Our Privacy, Cyber & Data Strategy Team answers five questions about the standard contractual clauses that aim to ensure compliance with Articles 28(3) and (4) of the General Data Protection Regulation: Are controllers and processors obliged to use the Article 28 clauses for their data processing agreements? Do the Article 28 clauses ensure compliance with […]
French data protection regulator fines Google and Amazon for non-compliance with EU cookie rules
On 7 December 2020, the French supervisory authority CNIL (Commission nationale de l’informatique et des libertés, French data protection authority) imposed substantive fines on Amazon and Google for allegedly placing advertising cookies on the computers of users in France without prior consent or providing adequate information. Amazon Europe Core was fined 35 million euros, and […]
European Commission Publishes Draft ‘Article 28’ Standard Contractual Clauses
In addition to issuing new (draft) standard contractual clauses for transferring personal data outside of the EEA, on November 12, the European Commission published a draft decision on standard contractual clauses between controllers and processors (‘Clauses’) for the matters referred to in Article 28(3) and (4) of Regulation (EU) 2016/679 (“GDPR”). Article 28(3) and (4) […]