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Alston & Bird Publishes FAQs To Help Companies Sort Through Schrems Decision

Alston & Bird has published FAQs regarding the recent decision by the European Court of Justice holding that the U.S.-E.U. Safe Harbor Framework is invalid (also known as the Schrems decision). Please see our blog entry on the decision … [Read more] about Alston & Bird Publishes FAQs To Help Companies Sort Through Schrems Decision

On October 20, Alston & Bird will host a panel discussion with FTC Commissioner Julie Brill. The event will be broadcast as a webinar. Commissioner Brill will discuss the future of U.S. – European privacy with Senior Counsel Peter Swire. The … [Read more] about A Discussion with FTC Commissioner Julie Brill: The Future of Trans-Atlantic Privacy

David Keating, partner and co-leader of the firm’s Privacy & Data Security practice, was quoted on Law360 regarding the practical impact on companies of the decision of the European Court of Justice (ECJ) invalidating the EU-U.S. Safe Harbor … [Read more] about David Keating Quoted on Law360 about Data Transfer Issues After Safe Harbor is Invalidated

On October 29, Alston & Bird’s Cybersecurity Preparedness & Response Team will host a live program and webinar called National Security, Cyber Espionage and “Bulk PII” Breaches in our Washington, DC office. The program will examine the … [Read more] about Alston & Bird to Host Live Program and Webinar on National Security, Espionage, and Data Breaches

On October 6, California Governor Jerry Brown signed into law two different updates to California’s data breach notification statute. Both updates will become effective on January 1, 2016. The first update, AB 964, defines "encrypted" for purpose of … [Read more] about California Updates Data Breach Notification Statute; Provides Model Notification Form