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Challenge to Privacy Shield Dismissed by EU General Court

November 29, 2017 By Daniel Felz

In October of last year, we reported that digital rights advocacy group Digital Rights Ireland (“DRI”) had brought an action to annul the EU-U.S. Privacy Shield.  DRI filed its challenge before the General Court of the European Union, which is the court of first instance in the EU system with exclusive jurisdiction over challenges to […]

Filed Under: Data Protection, International, Legislation, National Security, Privacy, Privacy Litigation, Privacy Shield, Uncategorized

An English-Language Primer on Germany’s GDPR Implementation Statute: Part 5 of 5

November 27, 2017 By Daniel Felz

Over the past year, the German government has been working on legislation to implement the EU’s General Data Protection Regulation (GDPR).  On July 6, 2017, Germany did so by passing a statute titled the Data Protection Amendments and Implementation Act. The Act repeals Germany’s venerated Federal Data Protection Act (Bundesdatenschutzgesetz, or BDSG) and replaces it […]

Filed Under: Data Protection, Enforcement, GDPR, Germany, International, Legislation, Privacy, Privacy Litigation, Uncategorized Tagged With: EU Data Protection, EU Regulation, European Union (EU), GDPR, GDPR Implementation

Article 29 Working Party Issues Guidance on Administrative Fines

November 2, 2017 By Privacy, Cyber & Data Strategy Team

The Article 29 Working Party (“WP29”) recently issued much-anticipated guidance on administrative sanctions under the General Data Protection Regulation (the “GDPR”). This guidance focuses on the holistic factors which Supervisory Authorities (the “SAs”) are to use in issuing assessments for violations of the GDPR. These factors make clear that WP29 views sanctions issued under the […]

Filed Under: Data Protection, GDPR, International Tagged With: EU Data Protection, GDPR

Virginia Amends Data Breach Notification Law

October 19, 2017 By Adria Moshe and Privacy, Cyber & Data Strategy Team

Virginia amended the state’s data breach notification law, effective July 1, 2017, to expand notification requirements for employers and payroll service providers to data breaches that involve “unauthorized access and acquisition of unencrypted and unredacted computerized data containing a [Virginia] taxpayer’s identification number in combination with the income tax withheld for that taxpayer. . . […]

Filed Under: Cybersecurity, Data Breach, Data Protection, Data Security, Enforcement, Financial Privacy, Legislation, Security Breach, Workplace Privacy Tagged With: Data Breach Notification, US State Law

An English-Language Primer on Germany’s GDPR Implementation Statute: Part 4 of 5

October 10, 2017 By Daniel Felz

Over the past year, the German government has been working on legislation to implement the EU’s General Data Protection Regulation (GDPR).  On July 6, 2017, Germany did so by passing a statute titled the Data Protection Amendments and Implementation Act. The Act repeals Germany’s venerated Federal Data Protection Act (Bundesdatenschutzgesetz, or BDSG) and replaces it […]

Filed Under: Data Protection, GDPR, Germany, Health Privacy, International, Legislation, Online Privacy, Privacy, Regulation Tagged With: EU Data Protection, EU Regulation, European Union (EU), GDPR, GDPR Implementation

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