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An English-Language Primer on Germany’s GDPR Implementation Statute: Part 2 of 5

September 25, 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 Tagged With: EU Data Protection, EU Regulation, European Union (EU), GDPR, GDPR Implementation

An English-Language Primer on Germany’s GDPR Implementation Statute: Part 1 of 5

September 19, 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 Tagged With: EU Data Protection, EU Regulation, European Union (EU), GDPR, GDPR Implementation

FTC Announces First Privacy Shield Enforcement Actions

September 15, 2017 By Privacy, Cyber & Data Strategy Team

The Federal Trade Commission recently announced that it had settled charges against three companies alleged to have falsely claimed participation in Privacy Shield. Privacy Shield supports EU – U.S. transfers of personal data by helping U.S. companies demonstrate compliance with European Union data transfer rules. Companies participating in the program commit to meet specific program requirements […]

Filed Under: Cybersecurity, Data Protection, Enforcement, Privacy Shield

Professor Peter Swire Publishes his Expert Testimony from Schrems 2.0

September 12, 2017 By Privacy, Cyber & Data Strategy Team

Peter Swire, Elizabeth and Thomas Holder Chair at the Georgia Tech Scheller College of Business and senior counsel at Alston & Bird, has made public his expert testimony from the landmark Irish High Court Case Data Protection Commissioner v. Facebook Ireland Limited & Maximillian Schrems. Under the Irish Court’s rules, Swire was asked to provide […]

Filed Under: Data Protection, International, National Security, Privacy Litigation, Privacy Shield, Uncategorized Tagged With: Cross-border, EU Data Protection, EU Privacy, European Union (EU), International Data Transfers, Litigation, Schrems 2.0

Eighth Circuit Affirms Dismissal of Scottrade Data Breach Suit

August 25, 2017 By Gavin Reinke

The United States Court of Appeals for the Eighth Circuit recently affirmed the district court’s dismissal of a putative class action brought by customers of the brokerage firm Scottrade in the wake of an alleged data breach impacting Scottrade in 2013.  The named plaintiffs had asserted several contract-based claims against Scottrade, alleging that Scottrade had […]

Filed Under: Cybersecurity, Data Breach, Data Protection, Data Security, Privacy Litigation, Security Breach Tagged With: Cybersecurity, Litigation

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